Microscopy preparation equipment available in the BDMF

+ Ladd Research vacuum evaporator for carbon or metal evaporation

+ Denton Desk II sputter coater with either gold or 60/40 gold/palladium target

+ Polaron "bomb" critical-point dryer

+ 3 Sorvall ultramicrotomes, 1 MT-2 and 2 MT-2Bs

+ LKB 7800 knife-maker

+ Standard chemicals and equipment for fixing and embedding samples for confocal microscopy, SEM, and TEM

+ Equipment for freeze-fixation by plunging into liquid nitrogen and for making and plunge-freezing into slush nitrogen