ESR fellow from ICN trained in Electron Microscopy

As part of her individual training program, RADDEL ESR fellow Elzbieta Pach from the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) in Spain attended the 2013 Quantitative Electron Microscopy (QEM) School on advanced TEM quantitative techniques, which took place in Saint-Aygulf (France) last month (13th-24th May, 2013):

QEM represented a unique occasion for the RADDEL fellow to learn and find out about new breakthroughs around Transmission Electron Microscopy. There were lectures providing an exhaustive overview of up-to-date TEM techniques and a series of practicals and workshops covering fundamental aspects of crystallography, tomography and x-rays among others.

Elzbieta will also attend this month (10th-21st June, 2013) a workshop on TEM organised by EMAT - Electron Microscopy for Materials Science Centre (Antwerp, Belgium), whose director is Prof. Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, one of the partners of the RADDEL project and a worldwide known scientist for his contributions to electron microscopy during the past decades.

The fellow will receive a complete hands-on training concerning transmission electron microscopy, including the basic principles of electron diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy as well as analytical transmission electron microscopy. The students attending this workshop will be provided also with a unique opportunity to work with the most advanced transmission electron microscopes currently available thanks to a series of practical sessions.

These two training activities will improve Elzbieta's skills on electron microscopy and will help her to achieve the best possible results during her research project, which deals with the characterisation of carbon nanocapsules at the different stages of the project using Electron Microscopy Techniques (SEM, HRTEM, STEM, EDX, EELS).