Bring better products to market faster with Aduro™

Aduro™ is a scalable platform for quantitative electron microscopy. The systems revolutionize the analytical capabilities of electron microscopes by providing the ability to do in situ work at temperatures up to 1200 °C with atomic resolution. Until now, no commercially viable solutions have existed that enable real-time, dynamic thermal studies in a fast, versatile, high-resolution and easy-to-use package. With its revolutionary capabilities, Aduro™ allows you to develop products faster, understand products better and spend less money on research. Because Aduro™ is compatible with new and existing equipment, you can start improving your return on capital today.

Get results with Aduro™

Entirely new means of investigating materials are now available. Success stories with Aduro™ include: studying platinum catalysts at 1000 °C with atomic resolution, analyzing grain growth in thin films at temperatures in excess of 600 °C, and constructing particle size versus temperature dependence relationships in a single microscopy session.

Numerous results achieved with Aduro™ are being published, a sample of papers that were presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 where Aduro™ was officially announced is described below.

Atomic Resolution at 1000 °C

Image collected using a JEOL 2200FS-AC Aberration Corrected TEM. Courtesy of Dr. Larry Allard, Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Applications

The millisecond thermal ramp times provided by Aduro™ enables, for the first time, the quantized application of heat and the study of dynamic reactions. Even better, with its easy to use interface and unmatched capabilities, Aduro™ enables you to do the pressing in situ materials science research that you want to accomplish on your specimen. Examples of the analysis that can be done with Aduro™ include:
• Sintering • Rapid thermal cycling and lifetime testing
• Grain growth • Phase changes
• Quenching • Diffusion
• Dynamic reactions • Rapid thermal annealing
• Recrystallization • Ultra-high and high temperature studies

In addition to the novel analysis that can be done, Aduro™ can be used with a wide variety of samples:
• Nanoparticles • Thin films and coating
• FIB sections • Core/shell systems
• Alloys • Liquid metals
• Nanotubes • Discontinuous metals

Additional Information
Heating stages and holders require customization to fit your particular instrument. Please contact us to discuss your needs and to learn more about this revolutionary new technology for your SEM, TEM or STEM.