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Electron Imaging Center for Nanosystems (EICN)

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Equipment/Service
cc Titan 80-300 TEM, Room B122
cc Titan Krios G1 TEM, Room B140
cc TF20 TEM, Room B146C
cc T20 iCorr TEM, Correlative Microscopy, Room B200
cc T12 TEM, Room B122
cc JSM-6610 SEM, Room B200
cc Teneo SEM, Room B200B
cc Vitrobot Mark IV cryo-sample plunger (BLUE), Room B146
cc Vitrobot Mark IV cryo sample plunger (YELLOW), Room B146
cc EM PACT2-RTS High Pressure Freezer (Leica), Room B220
cc EM AFS2 Automatic freeze substitution (Leica), Room B146
cc BTT-IV Evaporator (Denton Vacuum), Room B146
cc Tousimis Autosamdri-810 Critical Point Dryer, Room B200
cc South Bay Technology Ion Beam Sputtering / Etching System, Room B146
cc Gatan Plasma System SOLARUS, Room B122
cc Manual Plunger, Room B146
cc Assisted Usage Service
cc AKTA pure 25 M1, Room B122
cc AKTA Columns
cc Pelco SC-7, Room B146
cc UCT Ultramicrotome (Leica), Room B220
cc UC6 cryo-Ultramicrotome (Leica), Room B220
cc LKB 7800 KnifeMaker, Room B220
Matthew Mecklenburg, Managing Director
 Ivo Atanasov, Technical Director
 Z. Hong Zhou, Founding Director and Professor

For more information about EICN, please visit the EICN Website.

EICN New User Guide
EICN Policy and Rates

About EICN:

EICN is operated on the following bases:

  • Assisted Service
  • Self Service

Highly experienced staff provide either assisted services or the necessary trainings on instruments available at EICN.

Seeing molecules, materials, and molecular machineries at atomic resolution and in three-dimension is critical to nanoscience. In order to facilitate this, the Electron Imaging Center for Nanomachines (EICN) was established at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) through a major instrumentation grant from NIH and support from UCLA. EICN provides advanced electron imaging tools for a broad range of research, covering a scale range from tens of micrometers to angstroms, and delivering valuable structural information for cell biology, microbiology, biomolecular, molecular, and materials sciences. The state-of-the-art EICN facility offers all major electron microscopy (EM) modalities, including:

  • single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM)
  • cryo-electron tomography (cryoET)
  • cryo-immuno EM
  • single-particle 3D reconstruction
  • 3D tomographic reconstruction
  • ultrathin sectioning (room temperature and cryo)
  • high-pressure freezing
  • freeze-substitution
  • high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR TEM)
  • scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)
  • energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analysis for mass and elementary mapping
For instrument details and rates, please, click on the picture of the equipment and click "Show Equipment Information" on the page.

For other inquires, please contact EICN (eicnhelp@cnsi.ucla.edu).