Graphene as a transparent conductive support for studying biological molecules by transmission electron microscopy
By R. Nair, P. Blake, J. Blake, Recep Zan, S. Anissimova, U. Bangert, A. Golovanov, S. Morozov, T. Latychevskaia, A.K. Geim and 1 more. 2010
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We demonstrate the application of graphene as a support for imaging individual biological molecules in transmission electron microscope (TEM). A simple procedure to produce free-standing graphene membranes has been designed. Such membranes are extremely robust and can support practically any submicrometer object. Tobacco mosaic virus has been deposited on graphene samples and observed in a TEM. High contrast has been achieved even though no staining has been applied.
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- Nobel Lecture: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland (2011, background): “…in the spectrum of quasiparticles in graphene is to use chemically modified graphene (Worsley et al., 2007; Elias et al., 2009; Cheng et al., 2010; Nair et al., 2010a; Withers et al., 2010), where the electrons are participating in the covalent bond with foreign atoms attached to the carbon…”
- Impermeability of graphene and its applications (2013, background): “The properties of graphene that make it ideal for fluid encasement for TEM imaging include: (a) impermeability [5,21] (as mentioned above), (b) high electron-transparency [22]: high-momentum electrons can transmit through monolayer or multilayer (1–10 nm) graphene, which enables facile TEM imaging, ”