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X-Ray Spectromicroscopy Studies of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media

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X-ray microscopy is capable of imaging particles in the colloidal size range directly in their aqueous environment with high spatial resolution. It is possible to combine this with high spectral resolution for spectromicroscopy studies. Two types of microscopes are common in X-ray microscopy, the transmission X-ray microscope and the scanning transmission X-ray microscope; their setups are shown in this chapter. While the former takes high resolution images from an object within seconds or faster, the latter as an analytical instrument is suited for spectromicroscopy. As examples for visualization of the morphology, zinc containing particles and samples of clay and soil have been imaged with a transmission X-ray microscope. Images are shown from a cryo-tomography experiment based on X-ray microscopy images to obtain information about the three-dimensional structure of clusters of humic substances. The analysis of a stack of images taken with a scanning transmission X-ray microscope to bring together morphology and chemistry within a soil sample is shown.

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Acknowledgments

The work presented here has been supported by the Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF) under the contract numbers 05KS1MG1/9 and 02WU9893/0, by the Office of Naval Research under contract number N00014-99-10371, and by DFG under contract numbers Th 445/8-1 and Th 445/8-2 and within the SFB755 “Nanoscale Photonic Imaging.” We would like to thank the staff of ALS and BESSY II for providing excellent working conditions when performing experiments.

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  1. NSLS-II Project, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA

    Jürgen Thieme

  2. Institute for X-ray Physics, University of Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Sophie-Charlotte Gleber & Julia Sedlmair

  3. BASF SE, Polymer Physics, 67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany

    Jens Rieger

  4. Institute for Applied Biotechnology in the Tropics at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37079, Göttingen, Germany

    Jürgen Niemeyer

  5. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 271 Koshland Hall, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    John Coates

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Thieme, J., Gleber, SC., Sedlmair, J., Rieger, J., Niemeyer, J., Coates, J. (2010). X-Ray Spectromicroscopy Studies of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media. In: Frimmel, F., Niessner, R. (eds) Nanoparticles in the Water Cycle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10318-6_7

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