Falk Lucas

TL;DR: A novel in situ method is presented, on the basis of freeze-fracture shadow-casting cryo-scanning electron microscopy, that allows the measurement of contact angles of individual nanoparticles with 10 nm diameter, and thus greatly surpasses the current state of the art.

TL;DR: In this paper, the pore structure in Opalinus clay was characterized at different levels of micro-structural detail, and it was shown that the transition from an unconnected to a connected pore space in the shale sample occurs on the few nanometer scale.

TL;DR: An adapted sample preparation method based on high-pressure freezing for structure preservation, followed by freeze-substitution for multimodal en-bloc imaging or serial-section imaging is described, which has the potential to extract statistically relevant data of structural details for systems biology.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the method is capable of revealing in more detail the formation of nonequilibrium liposomes, and can be extended to other biochemical reactions, crystallization processes, and even systematic interfacial mixing studies between different solvents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the nanoscale intergranular pore space was investigated by cryo-Focused Ion Beam nanotomography (FIB-nt) applied to previously high-pressure frozen MX-80 bentonite samples.