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Eyring Materials Center (Life Science Electron Microscopy Laboratory)

Arizona State University-Tempe Campus

📍 Scottsdale, AZ · Website ↗

The Eyring Materials Center (formerly the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science) is ASU's materials characterization core in Tempe. Its life science electron microscopy operation runs a 300 kV FEI Titan Krios installed in 2017, fitted with a Falcon 4i detector, Selectris X energy filter, Ceta D camera and Volta phase plates, alongside a bio EM sample preparation suite with a Leica ICE high pressure freezer, Vitrobot, freeze substitution and cryo ultramicrotomy. The center is open to academic and industry users on a posted rate schedule.

Equipment Inventory(9 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

Vitrobot

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sample Prep
Configuration: Automated plunge freezer. A manual plunge freezer is also available.

Leica EM ICE

Leica

Sample Prep
Configuration: High pressure freezer; page names it 'Leica Ice HPF'

Leica EM AFS

Leica Microsystems · Freeze Substitution

Sample Prep
Configuration: Automatic freeze substitution

Leica EM FC7

Leica Microsystems · Cryo-Ultramicrotome

Sample Prep
Configuration: Cryo ultramicrotome

Leica Ultracut R

Leica Microsystems

Sample Prep
Configuration: Room temperature ultramicrotome

Reichert Ultracut E

Reichert-Jung

Sample Prep
Configuration: Room temperature ultramicrotome

Balzers Critical Point Dryer

Balzers

Sample Prep
Configuration: For SEM specimen drying

Millrock BT-48

Millrock Technology

Sample Prep
Configuration: Freeze dryer

Titan Krios

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: Installed 2017; X-FEG, 12-position Autoloader, Falcon 4i with Selectris X energy filter, Ceta D camera for electron diffraction, HAADF STEM detector, Volta phase plates; Cs 2.7 mm, 11 mm pole gap; ASU $1,000/day, academic $2,000/day

Rates

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