Leica Microsystems

Free Online Web Seminar

Free Educational Webinar about Sample Preparation
for Scanning Electron Microscopy:
State of the Art Critical Point Drying with the new
fully automated Leica EM CPD300

being held on
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
at 08:00 PT, 11:00 ET 16:00 UK, 17:00 CET,

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Outline:

Specimens which can be damaged due to surface tension when changing from the liquid to gaseous state need special treatment during sample preparation. Critical point drying is an efficient method for drying such delicate samples for SEM applications because it preserves the surface structure.

Before drying, many biological samples are additionally prepared through fixation and dehydration and then coated after drying with a metal such as gold, platinum or palladium to make their surfaces electrically conductive for the SEM analysis. If the surface structure is altered during the drying processes the results of the following SEM application will provide incorrect results.

In the past the critical point drying was a time consuming process with low sample reproducibility due to the manual operation.

This webinar will show you how the New Leica EM CPD300 dries delicate biological or industrial samples in a fully automated and controlled process to preserve your samples for subsequent treatment and analysis.

Watch this webinar if you are responsible for
• sample preparation of delicate biological specimens like pollen, tissue, plants, insects
• sample preparation of industrial samples for MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) applications

Speaker:

Ruwin Pandithage, Product Manager, EM Specimen Preparation, Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH. Ruwin was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Germany where he completed his MSc in molecular biology at the RWTH-Aachen. He graduated in the department of biochemistry at the University Hospital Aachen. During his scientific education he obtained experiences in Life Science Microscopy. In 2007 he moved to Vienna and started as a sales representative in the Life Science Research Division of Leica Microsystems where he gained sales know-how and experience in marketing. He then moved to the position of Product Manager EM Specimen Preparation.