A Practical Guide to Scanning Electron Microscopy in the Biosciences

Gerhard Wanner studied biology at Ludwigs Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), where he obtained his habilitation in 1992 and is now an Emeritus Professor of Ultrastructural Analysis at the Institute of Botany.His main research interest is the analysis of chromosomes using scanning electron microscopy. He is the author of a highly successful textbook on plant microscopy (in German language).

1. Introduction
2. Optics
3. Electron Microscopy
4. The Electrons
5. Components of the Electron Microscope
6. Preparation of Biological Specimens
7. Specimen Mounting for SEM
8. Microscopy
9. Resolution
10. Analytics
11. X-Rays
12. FIB/SEM
13. Serial Block Face SEM
14. Array Tomography
15. Cryo-SEM
16. VP-SEM
17. Stereo-SEM