FEI TECNAI TWIN 120 KV TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
Gatan Ultrascan 1000 2K CCD camera with ultra sensitive phosphor scintillator

• 70° Tilt Cryo-transfer Holder Tomography enables frozen suspensions or sections to be loaded into the TEM holder and transferred frost-free at temperatures below -170 °C
• Inspect 3D comprises all hardware and software required for carrying out alignment of tomography data and subsequent tomographic reconstruction of the resulting aligned tilt series.

FEI VITROBOT MARK IV is a fully automated vitrification device for plunge-freezing of aqueous (colloidal) suspensions.

LEICA EM PACT2 HIGH PRESSURE FREEZER with Rapid Transfer System provides the preparation of samples for subsequent techniques.

LEICA EM AUTOMATIC FREEZE SUBSTITUTION SYSTEM is the follow-on procedure for high pressure freezing in which specimens are fixed and resin infiltrated at low temperature providing specimens suitable for immunolabeling.

LEICA MICROBIOPSY TRANSFER SYSTEM provides rapid transfer of tissue microbiopsies (0.3x0.6x1.2mm in size) from donor to the Leica EM PACT high pressure freezer for freezing within 30-60 seconds.

LEICA ULTRACUT UCT MICROTOME for ultrathin sectioning.

• FCS attachment allows low temperature ultrathin sectioning of biological samples at temperatures as low as -185°C.

FEI QUANTA 200 is a versatile, high-performance scanning electron microscope with three operation modes (high vacuum, low vacuum and ESEM) equipped with a motorized stage and providing secondary and backscatter electron detection.

CRESSINGTON 308 COATING SYSTEM provides thermal evaporation, sputtering and carbon evaporation techniques for SEM and TEM applications.