{"id":46721,"date":"2024-04-24T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=46721"},"modified":"2024-04-24T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:00:59","slug":"innovative-transmission-electron-microscope-developed-manchester-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/innovative-transmission-electron-microscope-developed-manchester-scientists\/46721\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Transmission Electron Microscope to be developed by Manchester scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Materials scientists from Manchester are developing a Transmission Electron Microscope that integrates cutting-edge imaging and spectroscopy with artificial intelligence and automated workflows.<\/h2>\n

While Transmission Electron Microscopes can image atomic-scale structure and chemistry, the technique is very time-consuming. This means that the typical regions of interest are very limited.<\/p>\n

The new AutomaTEM will resolve this, improving the ability to find and analyse, reducing the time incurred while increasing the ROI.<\/p>\n

As a result, it will accelerate innovation in materials applications for quantum computing, low-power electronics, and new catalysts to support the energy transition. These are currently held back by the limitations of today\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n

About the AutomaTEM<\/h3>\n

The new Transmission Electron Microscope is funded through a \u00a39.5m project supported by The University of Manchester<\/a>, The Henry Royce Institute, BP, and EPSRC, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the manufacturer.<\/p>\n

The team, led by Professor Sarah will merge the Transmission Electron Microscope\u2019s existing atomic scale elemental and chemical mapping capabilities with emerging developments in automation and data analysis to create the AutomaTEM.<\/p>\n

The new device can acquire huge data sets of local chemical information in days rather than years.<\/p>\n

Prof Sarah Haigh, Professor of Materials Characterisation at The University of Manchester and Director of the Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC), said: “Understanding atomic detail at the micrometre or millimetre scale is crucial for developing materials for various applications, from catalysis and quantum technologies<\/a> to nuclear energy and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n

“This system is not simply another TEM instrument. It will provide new opportunities for atomic scale investigation of materials with less human intervention. For the first time we will be able to enable atomic resolution analysis of hundreds of regions of interest in a matter of hours, providing unprecedented insights into sparse defects and heterogeneous materials.”<\/p>\n

Features of the new device<\/h3>\n

The new Transmission Electron Microscope is designed with AI<\/a> and automated workflows at its core. It has several cutting-edge features, including:<\/p>\n