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Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility (RCNF)

Rutgers, the State University of N.J.

📍 Piscataway, NJ · Website ↗

The Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility at the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine in Piscataway operates a 200 kV Talos Arctica with a K2 Summit detector, BioQuantum energy filter and Volta phase plate, an Aquilos 2 cryo-FIB/SEM, a LEO 1525 cryo-SEM with Gatan Alto 2500 stage, and a Leica EM Cryo CLEM system, with Vitrobot Mark IV and Leica EM GP plungers. A 300 kV Titan Krios with K3 detector and BioQuantum filter is also located at RCNF and is listed in the Rutgers core-facility directory and as a partner instrument by Cornell CCMR. The facility is available on a fee-for-use basis to Rutgers and external users.

Equipment Inventory(8 instruments)

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

Aquilos 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Cryo-FIB Milling

FIB-SEM
Configuration: Gallium FIB; in-chamber magnetron sputter coater; organoplatinum GIS; EasyLift nanomanipulator; described as North America's first Aquilos 2

Leica EM Cryo CLEM

Leica Microsystems · Cryo-CLEM

Other
Configuration: Leica DM6 FS widefield fluorescence microscope with cryostage and cryotransfer shuttle

Leica EM ACE600

Leica Microsystems · Coater

Sample Prep
Configuration: Rotary shadower / electron beam deposition of Pt or C

Vitrobot Mark IV

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Dual-blotting plunger

Leica EM GP

Leica

Sample Prep
Configuration: Plunge freezer

LEO 1525

Zeiss (LEO)

SEM
Configuration: Gemini FEG column; Gatan Alto 2500 cryo system; ThermoNoran System Six EDS

Titan Krios

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 300 kV X-FEG with a Gatan K3 and BioQuantum energy filter, for single particle analysis, cryo-ET and MicroED.

Talos Arctica

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 kV; K2 Summit; BioQuantum GIF; Volta phase plate; 12-sample autoloader; SerialEM