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Since the discovery of Fullerenes in 1985, a tremendous amount of research has gone into the study of carbon and the different materials that can be made from it. Carbon nanotubes are the latest example of an area that holds great promise.
Carbon nanotubes are extremely small and difficult to image well in even the most advanced SEM's. Electrons typically penetrate right through thin-walled carbon nanotubes. For this reason, researchers are often forced to use Transmission Electron Microscopes and Atomic Force Microscopes to image nanotubes. These techniques are both complicated and slow when sample preparation time is taken into consideration.
The ORION® PLUS helium ion microscope offers the promise of TEM-like resolution, without the associated sample preparation headaches.
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