SEM photos

After a week of preparing my samples, I finally managed to analyse some today under the microscope. They show very zoomed in pictures of different Lathyrus petals using a scanning electron microscope. Before the samples can be viewed they have to be transferred to various different solutions, dried using a special machine (which is very difficult to use), and coated in a layer of platinum. Then the actual analysis takes a while as the microscope needs to be set up to allow images to be viewed.

I'm very glad that I finally have some images though! I'm now taking a week and a half off work to revise for my deferred exam before going back to prepare and analyse more petals until the semester starts again! I'm very busy but I'm having a great time (minus the revision part) :)