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News and Events
- 11/21/05 Digital imaging system in TEM
The Center has recently installed a new CCD camera on our FEI/Philips
CM-20 TEM. This new CCD camera is part of a collaborative effort with
Gatan, Inc. in testing the newer model of the CCD camera and digital imaging
system. This new camera has shown to be a great improvement upon its predecessor;
it has excellent capabilities in imaging and range, and the software (digital
imaging) runs on a very user friendly program. This new system has the
potential to simplify high-resolution work - much time can be saved by
foregoing the hassle of developing films and printing photos.
We will have three months (or hopefully longer) to try out this special
camera, I encourage all of you to seize the opportunity to take advantage
of using this camera. While we are testing this new imaging system, we
would also like to ask you to fill out a survey form each time after using
the digital imaging system. The survey log-in book will be placed in the
TEM room. Please write down any difficulties or problems you encounter
in capturing your images, as well as any comments and suggestions in the
survey book. Gatan will incorporate our comments and suggestions in their
manufacture of the new product.
Meanwhile you still have the option to use the conventional Kodak films
to record your image if you prefer to do so.
In addition, the EDS detector has been rebuilt and re-installed on the
CM-20 TEM. It is essentially a new EDS detector with a very good resolution
of 131ev. With the new CCD camera/digital imaging system and EDS detector,
our current TEM is very well equipped. I sincerely hope youwill find this
powerful instrumentation useful to your research.
- 09/30/05 Letter from the Director
Dear MC2 Friends:
Summer is over and I hope you all had a relaxing season. As we are entering
the new Fall Quarter of 2005, I would like to take the opportunity to
share with you some exciting news from the Materials Characterization
Center.
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I would like to congratulate Mr. Mason Dean (Department of Ecology
& Evolutionary Biology). Mason was one of ten recipients of the
prestigious Presidential Award at the Microscopy Society of America
(MSA) annual conference that was held in Honolulu, Hawaii (July 31
- August 4, 2005). The title of this paper was "Morphology and
Ultrastructure of Prismatic Calcified Cartilage." The co-authors
of this paper are Wen-An Chiou (Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science) and Adam P. Summers (Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology).
It brings me great pleasure and pride to see one of our students
receive this very competitive and honorable award. MSA distinguishes
only 10 student papers per year at the meeting. Furthermore, this
is our third consecutive year that UCI students have received awards
from the MSA. The MSA annual meeting gathers more than 2000 world-wide
attendants/microscopists to present most current research findings
in the field.
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We have finally completed the on-line reservation and computer log-in
and log-out system for our major instruments (SEM, TEM and XRD). Starting
October 1, 2005 we will implement this system in our facility. We
ask that all users please comply with the facility rules and regulations
for the most efficient utilization. You can find the regulations on
our website at http://www.mc2.eng.uci.edu.
Thank you very much for your attention. Please feel free to get in
touch with me should you have any questions. As always, I also appreciate
any comments and/or suggestions regarding our facilities.
Best regards,
Wen-An Chiou
- 09/30/05 Online Reservations in effect as of October 1, 2005
We have finally completed the design and testing of the on-line reservation
system. The on-line reservation will be implemented on October 1, 200
Awards
The Center would like to recognize the insightful research that has been
conducted and presented at notable meetings throughout the year.
Congratulations to the following researchers:
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Mason Dean (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology),
Wen-An Chiou (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science),
Stanislay Gorb (Max Planck Institute fur Metalforschung, Department
Arzt, Heisenbergstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany) and Adam Summers (Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), who won the IMC16 Poster Award,
Biological Science, at the 16th International Microscopy Congress.
In addition, Mason Dean also won the IMC 16/IFSM Scholarship for Young
Scientists, a financial support for young participants to attend the
meeting.
The title of the paper was "Ontogeny of Calcification of the
Tessellated Skeleton". It was one of the 12 recipients of the
honorable Poster Award (selected from a total of more than 1300 posters)
at the International Microscopy Congress. The meeting was held in
Sapporo, Japan, September 3-8, 2006. The meeting had a record setting
attendance of more than 2,000 participants from 63 countries. The
Japanese Emperor gave an address at the Congress Ceremony on the birthday
(09/06/06) of their grandson, the Royal prince.
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Chris Gothard (Department of Chemistry), Wen-An Chiou (Depratment
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science), and James S. Nowick
(Department of Chemistry) for the Poster Award from the Southern California
Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis (SCSMM) at 2006 Annual Symposium
held at California State University at Fullerton on May 4, 2006. The
title of the paper was "TEM Study of the Morphology and Assembly
of Water-Soluble Moleculare Rods".
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Mason Dean (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), who
was one of ten recipients of the honorable Presidential Award at the
Microscopy Society of America (MSA) annual conference that was held
in Honolulu, Hawaii (July 31 - August 4)..
The title of the paper was "Morphology and Ultrastructure of
Prismatic Calcified Cartilage." The co-authors of this paper
are Wen-An Chiou (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science) and Adam P. Summers (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology)..
This is our third consecutive year that UCI students have received
awards from the MSA. MSA annual meeting gathers more than 2000 attendants
world-wide microscopists to the meeting to present up-to-date research
findings.
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T. Chen and M. Mecartney (Department of Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science) for the Poster Award from the Southern California
Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis at 2005 Annual Symposium
held at UCI on April 1, 2005. The title of the paper was "Microstructure
Investigation of a Superplastic Ceramic Composite".
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Pai-Chun Chang, Zhiyong Fan, Wei-Yu Tzeng, Juan Hong, Wen-An Chiou
and Grace J. Lu at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science, who won the Poster Award - Second Place in the category of
Advances in Instrumentation and Techniques from Microscopy Society
of America 2004 Annual Conference (Savannah, Georgia) . The title
of the paper was "Characterization of ZnO Nanowires Synthesized
by Vapor Trapping CVD Method".
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I. Roy, M. Chauhan, D. McDougall, W.-A. Chiou and F. A. Mohamed (all
from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
for the Poster Award from the Southern California Society for Microscopy
and Microanalysis at 2004 Annual Symposium held at UCI. The title
of the paper was "Thermal Stability of Ultra Fine Grain Al 5083
Cryomilled Alloy".
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Y. F. Chou (Department of Bioengineering, UCLA), W.-A. Chiou (MCC,
UCI) and B. M. Wu (Department of Bioengineering, UCLA) won two awards
at the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) annual conference that
was held in San Antonio, Texas (August 3-7, 2003):
<a> MSA Poster Award, Biological Application of Microscopy and
Microanalysis - Second Place;
<b> Traveling Poster Exhibit Award in Recognition for Outstanding
Poster in the Biological Science Category..
The title of the paper was "TEM Characterization of the Apatite-Polymer
Interface", and published in Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol.
9, Supp. 2, p. 1536-1537 (CD), 2003.
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Q. Li (Department of Chemistry, UCI), W.-A. Chiou (MCC, UCI) and
R. M. Penner (Department of Chemistry, UCI) who won the Traveling
Poster Exhibit Award in Recognition for Outstanding Poster in the
Physical Science Category at the Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
annual conference that was held in San Antonio, Texas (August 3-7,
2003). .
The title of the paper was "Electron Microscopy Study of Molybdenum
Disulfide Nanowire", and published in Microscopy and Microanalysis,
Vol. 9, Supp. 2, p. 340-341 (CD), 2003.
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K. H. Foo, W.-A. Chiou and E. J. Lavernia (all at the Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and MCC, UCI) who was
an invited speaker at the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) annual
conference that was held in San Antonio, Texas (August 3-7, 2003).
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The invited presentation was "TEM Study of Nano-Crystalline
Al-Ni-La Powders Obtained by Gas Atomization", and published
in Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 9, Supp. 2, p.100-101, 2003.
Meetings
2006
The SCSMM (Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis)
Spring meeting
California State University at Fullerton
May 4, 2006
For more information: http://www.scsmm.org
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2006
Chicago, illinois, USA
August 6-10, 2006
For more information: http://www.msa.microscopy.com
ICEM XVI, XVI International Congress on Electron Microscopy
Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan
September 3-8, 2006
For more information: http://edpex104.bcasj.or.jp/jsm/eng/icem/icemxvi.html
American Chemical Society
San Francisco, CA
September 10-14, 2006
For more information: help@acs.org
The American Society for Cell Biology
San Diego, CA
December 9-13, 2006
For more information: http://www.ascb.org
2007
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2007
Ft. lauderdale, Florida
August 5-9, 2007
For more information: http://www.msa.microscopy.com
2008
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008
August 3-7, 2008
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Electron Microscopy (9APEM)
November 3-7, 2008
Jeju, Korea
2009
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009
August-6, 2009
Baltimore, Maryland
2010
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2010
Portland, Oregon
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