Biomedical Engineering Reference
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on the mechanisms involved during the use of the various techniques. One chapter is
reserved especially for the various preparation artifacts and another for illustrating
the complimentary nature of certain preparation techniques.
Chapter 2 presents the microstructure of materials and their physical and chem-
ical properties in connection with the general problems presented by studying
materials.
Chapter 3 presents the principles behind different structural, chemical, or spectro-
scopic imaging methods, diffraction methods, and lastly chemical and spectroscopic
analysis methods.
Chapter 4 presents materials issues and the different types of TEM and
TEM/STEM analyses. It suggests an approach for tackling the study of a mate-
rial, whether that study be morphological, structural, chemical, or spectroscopic, by
trying to identify what scales of analysis are relevant to the problem presented.
Chapter 5 brings together all the physical and chemical mechanisms involved
during the preparation techniques and, in particular, the principles behind the
mechanical, chemical, ionic actions associated with the techniques these actions are
involved in. This chapter also explains in detail the action leading to a change in the
state of materials containing an aqueous phase and the actions leading to a change
in the properties of a material. It also recalls the processes leading to a physical or
chemical deposit, applied to the corresponding techniques.
Chapter 6 brings together the different types of artifacts created during the sample
preparation steps as well as those artifacts formed under the effect of the electronic
beam during observation.
Chapter 7 brings together all of the criteria that make it possible to select the most
appropriate preparation technique in order to respond to a given material problem,
based on the TEM analyses that you wish to conduct.
Chapter 8 presents comparisons among several preparation techniques using the
same material in materials science and biology, illustrating the complimentarity of
techniques and the importance of using several techniques.
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