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Sedimentary Ejecta from a Cretaceous/Tertiary Meteorite Impact Crater
15 Jun 2000
This sedimentary ejecta from the Cretaceous/Tertiary meteorite impact crater was collected from the Mayan Mountains in Belize. Imaged using the ESEM in the Microscopy Suite.
Image Courtesy:
Rick Wachtman - Department of Geology
Contact: wachtman@uiuc.edu
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New High Resolution X-Ray Micro-CT from Xradia A new high resolution X-Ray micro-CT from Xradia has been installed and is ready for users. The new micro-CT provides 1 micron resolution compared to the 5 micron resolution from SkyScan 1172 micro-CT currently in VMIL. Xradia micro-CT also comes with proprietary ultrafast reconstruction program that takes minutes rather than hours to reconstruct a 3-D model from hundreds of 2-D images. The new micro-CT includes a micro-focused 10W (40~150 KeV) Tungsten tube, TE-cooled 4 mega-pixel CCD camera, 5 microscopic objectives (2X, 4X, 10X, 20X and 40X), and high-precision 4-axis motorized sample stage. The 40~150 KeV X-ray energy level allows a wide spectrum of materials that can be imaged by the new system. Please contact Leilei Yin for more information.
The January 2008 issue of Nature Photonics features a cover image created by ITG depicting the work of Stephanie Rinne, Florencio García-Santamaría, and Paul Braun. The highlighted article describes their current research with embedded cavities and waveguides in three-dimensional silicon photonic crystals. The image was produced in the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Lab by ITG 3D Artist Steve Eisenmann. Eisenmann combined models created in a 3D application, bringing them into Maya for rendering and Photoshop for final compositing.
ITG created the cover image for the December 2007 cover of Nature Chemical Biology. The image illustrates the work by Hee-Kyung Kim, Ivan Rasnik, Juewen Liu, Taekjip Ha and Yi Lu, and accompanies their paper titled Dissecting metal ion–dependent folding and catalysis of a single DNAzyme. The image was created by Alex Jerez, Hee-Kyung Kim and Yi Lu.
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