... Digital fields, Industry and Space, as well as in Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resourses, Agriculture and the Environment.
Advanced electron microscopy techniques enable the comprehensive characterization of inorganic materials in terms of their structural, morphological, and chemical properties. While scanning electron microscopy (SEM) enables such investigations at the micron level, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) enables the investigation of materials at the subatomic level and enables analyses such as grain boundary investigations, inclusions, the determination of planar defects, and dislocations in various minerals, and during in-situ experiments. The use of electron microscopy is also expanding into environmental investigations as an analytical technique for the structural, morphological, and chemical characterisation of natural materials in the environment, and potential inorganic and organic contaminants in both soil and water, and for the analysis of sensor materials for environmental applications.