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Custom Instrumentation: CryoCluster

Custom Instrumentation: CryoCluster

Collaboration between faculty, shared facilities, and industry to fabricate instrumentation for high-throughput cryogenic sample preparation

• With partner Leica Microsystems, Joester (Seed) and Dravid (IRG 2) have developed a tool for cryo triple ion gun milling (cryoTIGM), a high-throughput approach to cryogenic sample preparation

• The cryoTIGM tool is the center piece of NU CryoCluster, a comprehensive cryogenic sample preparation facility embedded in the open access NUANCE core facility that offers a broad range of cryo-imaging instrumentation to researchers in the Chicago area

Custom Instrumentation: CryoCluster