A Comprehensive Study on the Synthesis and Characterization of TiO2 Nanoparticles Using Aloe vera Plant Extract and Their Photocatalytic Activity against MB Dye by S. Srujana, M. Anjamma, null Alimuddin, Bharat Singh, Ram C. Dhakar, Shanthi Natarajan, Ramana Hechhu

“…XRD, ultraviolet diffuse reflectance (UV-DRS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA) were used to characterize the material. …”
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Chemical Synthesis, Characterization, and Biocompatibility Study of Hydroxyapatite/Chitosan Phosphate Nanocomposite for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications by Nabakumar Pramanik, Debasish Mishra, Indranil Banerjee, Tapas Kumar Maiti, Parag Bhargava, Panchanan Pramanik

“…The surface morphology of the composite and the homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles in the polymer matrix have been investigated through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively. …”
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Influenza A/H1N1 Severe Pneumonia: Novel Morphocytological Findings in Bronchoalveolar Lavage by Paola Faverio, Stefano Aliberti, Clinton Ezekiel, Grazia Messinesi, Ambrogio Brenna, Alberto Pesci

“…Via transmission electron microscopy, these cells were classified as atypical type II pneumocytes and some of them showed cytoplasmic vesicles and inclusions. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Swelling Characteristics of Graft Copolymerized Isotactic Polypropylene Film by Teena Sehgal, Sunita Rattan

“…The evidence of grafting was carried out by Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) before and after grafting, respectively. …”
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Investigations on microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg-5wt.% Cu-TiB2 composites produced via powder metallurgy route by Stalin B., Ravichandran M., Mohanavel V., Raj L.P.

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was carried out for each composition. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) tests were conducted to study the characterization of the base alloy and the prepared new composite.…”
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Isolation of Viral Biofilms From HTLV-1 Chronically Infected T Cells and Integrity Analysis by Coline Arone, Hélène Dutartre, Delphine Muriaux

“…This method circumvents the need for mechanical, chemical, or enzymatic biofilm detachment, bypasses the use of ultracentrifugation, and enables us to resuspend the biofilms in the appropriate buffer for subsequent analyses such as western blotting or super-resolution microscopy imaging as presented.…”
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The Impact of Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser Energy and Wavelength on Human Teeth Enamel: In Vitro Study by Mays Tareq, Tagreed Hamad, Salam A. W. Al-abassi

“… The aim of the research was for evaluation the morphological and chemical alterations that result from the Nd:YAG laser treatment of dental enamels using optical microscopy (OM) with Energy dispersion X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), respectively. …”
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The Centrifugal Differential Mobility Analyser – concept and initial validation of a new device for measuring 2D property distributions by T. N. Rüther, D. B. Rasche, D. B. Rasche, H.-J. Schmid

“…Most of the methods utilized to gain deeper insight into the morphology of nanoparticles are very time-consuming and costly or have bad statistics (such as tandem setups or TEM (transmission electron microscopy)/SEM (scanning electron microscopy) images). …”
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Structural and Phase Transformations in Water-Vapour-Plasma-Treated Hydrophilic TiO2 Films by L. Pranevicius, M. Urbonavicius, S. Tuckute, K. Gedvilas, T. Rajackas, L. L. Pranevicius, D. Milcius

“…We have investigated structural and phase transformations in water-vapor-plasma-treated 200–300 nm thick Ti films, maintained at room temperature, by injecting water vapor into radio frequency (RF) plasma at different processing powers. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) combined with optical microscopy and surface nanotopography analysis were used to view tracks of adsorbed water layers and to detect bulges or blisters appeared on the surface of treated samples. …”
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Direct Electron Transfer of Hemoglobin on Manganese III Oxide-Ag Nanofibers Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode by Masoud Negahdary, Gholamreza Mazaheri, Somyyeh Rad, Mohammadreza Hadi, Roya Malekzadeh, Mohammad Mahdi Saadatmand, Saeed Rezaei-Zarchi, Fariba Pishbin, Mojdeh Khosravian-hemami

“…The Mn2O3-Ag nanofibers are studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). …”
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Issues occult hepatitis B virus infection by I. A. Morozov, L. Yu. Ilchenko, N. I. Gromova, I. G. Fyedorov, I. V. Gordeychuk, A. K. Knyazhentseva, E. V. Zverkova, M. I. Mikhaylov

“…Molecular biologic enzymelinked immunoassay (ELISA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and morphological (immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy) methods were utilized for diagnostics.Results. …”
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Impact of Biosynthesized Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on the Kidneys Tissues of Male Mice Experimentally Infected with Entamoeba histolytica by Laith A. Yaaqoob, Mohannad Hamid Jasim, Lima Tariq Youash Lazar, Saade Abdalkareem Jasim, Thaer Abdulqader Salih

“…The purpose of this work was to ascertain how ZnO NPs might be used therapeutically to treat E. histolytica-infected mice's kidney tissues. Scanning electron microscopy used to characterize biosynthesized ZnO NPs , atomic force microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. …”
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Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped ZnS with Camellia Brushfield Yellow Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity under Visible Light Irradiation by Gang-Juan Lee, Chi-Lun Hong, Valentina Batalova, Gennady Mokrousov, Jerry Wu

“…Nitrogen modified zinc sulfide photocatalysts were successfully prepared and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and surface area analysis. …”
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Effect of Attapulgite Nanorods and Calcium Sulfate Microwhiskers on the Reaction-Induced Phase Separation of Epoxy/PES Blends by Xiaolin Tang, Xinhui Zhong, Guozhu Zhan, Yingfeng Yu, Hongdong Zhang

“…The influence of two kinds of mesoscale inorganic rod fillers, nanoscale attapulgite and micron-sized CaSO4 whisker, on the reaction-induced phase separation of epoxy/aromatic amine/poly- (ether sulfone) (PES) blends has been investigated by optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and time resolved light scattering (TRLS). …”
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An Analysis of Relationship between the Microfracture Features and Mineral Morphology of Granite by Meiben Gao, Tianbin Li, Junxun Zhu, Hongyu Yin, Yongyi Yang

“…Using the techniques of X-ray diffraction, polarizing microscopy, uniaxial compression, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the relationships between the microfracture features and mineral morphology of granite were studied. …”
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Ultrastructural Localization of Polygalacturonase in Ethylene-Stimulated Abscission of Tomato Pedicel Explants by Ming-Fang Qi, Tao Xu, Wei-Zhi Chen, Tian-lai Li

“…At the subcellular level, transmission electron microscopy with immunogold staining showed that PG showed abundant accumulation in the cortical and vascular tissues at 8 h after ethylene treatment, and the distribution area extended to the central parenchyma cells at 16 h after ethylene treatment. …”
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A Case of Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal IgG Deposits That Showed Predominantly Membranous Features by Homare Shimohata, Kentaro Ohgi, Hiroshi Maruyama, Yasunori Miyamoto, Mamiko Takayashu, Kouichi Hirayama, Masaki Kobayashi

“…Here, we present the case of PGNMID that showed predominantly membranous features on light microscopy.…”
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Nonprofessional Phagocytosis Can Facilitate Herpesvirus Entry into Ocular Cells by Vaibhav Tiwari, Deepak Shukla

“…Using laser scanning confocal microscopy, we show that successful infection of ocular cell types by all the three viruses, belonging to three divergent subfamilies of herpesviruses, is facilitated by induction of F-actin rich membrane protrusions. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Low Temperature Sintering of Nanostructured BaWO4 for Optical and LTCC Applications by S. Vidya, Sam Solomon, J. K. Thomas

“…Surface morphology of the sample is analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. The dielectric constant and loss factor measured at 5 MHz are 9 and 1.56×10-3. …”
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Graphene Oxide/Fe3O4/Chitosan−Coated Nonwoven Polyester Fabric Extracted from Disposable Face Mask for Enhanced Efficiency of Organic Dye Adsorption by Hoang V. Tran, Nhan T. Hoang, Thu D. Le, Luyen T. Tran, Hue T. M. Dang

“…The specific properties of GFC, NWPF, and the GFC/NWPF adsorbent were analysed via X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry, and field-emission scanning electron microscopy. …”
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