MRI: Acquisition of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope System

请拨经费购买一台环境扫描电子显微镜，用于新的微环境成像和分析设施。将受益于新设备的项目包括研究土壤中的生物膜流动性、非病毒基因传递方法、蛋白质无机生物矿化和纳米生物制造技术。新设备的主要优点是它能够成像精细材料，如生物制品，而不会在样品制备过程中引入人工制品。包括材料、化学、化学工程、分子、细胞和发育生物学在内的许多系的教员将使用这些设备。

Funds are requested for the purchase of an environmental scanning electron microscope to be used in a new Micro-Environmental Imaging and Analysis Facility. Among the projects that would benefit from the new equipment are studies of biofilm mobility in the soil, non-viral gene delivery methods, protein-inorganic biomineralization, and nanobiofabrication techniques. The major benefit of the new equipment would be its ability to image delicate materials such as biologicals without introducing artifacts in the sample preparation process. Faculty from numerous departments including Materials, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology would utilize the equipment.