Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

A carbon nanotube tape for serial-section electron microscopy of brain ultrastructure

  • Yoshiyuki Kubota,
  • Jaerin Sohn,
  • Sayuri Hatada,
  • Meike Schurr,
  • Jakob Straehle,
  • Anjali Gour,
  • Ralph Neujahr,
  • Takafumi Miki,
  • Shawn Mikula,
  • Yasuo Kawaguchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02768-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Electron microscopy requires electrically conductive and grounded samples to provide high-resolution, high-contrast images. Here, Kubota et al. describe a suitable carbon nanotube based tape for automated serial section collection and imaging, as in ATUM-based electron microscopy.