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This chapter focuses on alternative preparation methods to ultramicrotomy. Various methods for thin and ultrathin film preparation based on polymer solutions are presented. The examples that are given for specimens prepared by spin coating, dip coating and solution casting cover several classes of polymers, including block copolymers and others. The essential preparation steps and the advantages of the focussed ion beam (FIB) technique are also described. It is shown that this technique is particularly convenient for preparing ultrathin specimens of compositematerials that allow TEM analyses of interfaces of different classes of materials in their most undisturbed states.
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(2008). Special Preparation Techniques. In: Electron Microscopy of Polymers. Springer Laboratory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36352-1_12
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