Discover the Sakura Pollen with CIQTEK SEM

Publish date : 2022/04/21 Views : 197 Related products : CIQTEK SEM3100 - Tungsten Filament Based Scanning Electron Microscope

April is the season of cherry blossoms!

The cherry blossoms are blooming again in the University of Science and Technology of China

Follow CIQTEK to detect the hidden beauty of cherry blossoms!

The "Avenue of Cherry Blossoms" on campus is the highlight of the year, with over a hundred cherry blossoms in full bloom! These cherry blossoms are late blooming, with large and dense petals, gorgeous and radiant.

What you may not know is that even cherry blossom pollen is gorgeous!

Professor Hongmin Zhou from the Physical and Chemical Science Experiment Center of the University of Science and Technology of China used the CIQTEK tungsten filament scanning electron microscope SEM3100 to observe and study cherry blossom pollen, presenting us with the hidden beauty of sakura!

CIQTEK Tungsten Filament Scanning Electron Microscope SEM3100 at the Physical and Chemical Science Experiment Center of the Chinese University of Science and Technology

False-colour Image Micrographs (the resulting images captured by CIQTEK SEM3100)

CIQTEK researchers again used our field emission scanning electron microscope SEM5000 to observe the cherry pollen and got a different picture.

CIQTEK Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope SEM5000

With the CIQTEK SEM's high resolution, large field of view, large depth of field, and its optical navigation and perfect automatic functions, we can quickly and clearly observe the appearance of pollen morphology.

Cherry pollen grains are spherical-oblong, with three pore grooves (without treated pollen, the pores are not obvious), the grooves are as long as the poles, and the outer wall is striated and decorated.

False-colour Image Micrographs (the resulting images captured by CIQTEK SEM5000)

Special Acknowledgements:

Pictures of cherry blossom pollen taken with the assistance of Mr. Zhou Hongmin of the Physical and Chemical Science Experiment Center of the University of Science and Technology of China;

Photos of cherry blossoms provided by Liu Haodong, a master's student in the Department of Modern Mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China.