{"id":79412,"date":"2025-05-22T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/?p=79412"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:37:04","slug":"scanning-electron-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2025\/05\/22\/scanning-electron-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning Electron Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of our laboratories we have access to the TM4000III scanning electron microscope. It is the perfect instrument to take a closer look at artefacts, not only a scanning electron microscope but can also conduct elemental analysis \u2013 EDX. The system has 4 acceleration voltages, 5, 10, 15 and 20kV, viewing to 10\u00d7 \u2013 100,000\u00d7 (Photographic magnification) and 25\u00d7 \u2013 250,000\u00d7 (monitor display magnification).<\/p>\n<p>We have recently been investigating collagen in archaeological leather..the image below shows the bundles of collagen strands seen in a modern leather sample.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79413\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem-940x646.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/05\/Leather-sem-582x400.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of our laboratories we have access to the TM4000III scanning electron microscope. It is the perfect instrument to take a closer look at artefacts, not only a scanning electron microscope but can also&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/2025\/05\/22\/scanning-electron-microscope\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23320,"featured_media":79362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/files\/2025\/02\/hitachi-electron-microscope-1000x1000-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79412\/revisions\/79414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/gilliantaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}