Citovac chamber

Manufactured by Struers

Sourced in Denmark

The CitoVac chamber is a vacuum device used in the sample preparation process. It provides a controlled environment for various metallographic and materialographic procedures.

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Epofix, by Struers (2 mentions)

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Embedding Artworks in Low-Fluorescence Resin

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EpoFix (Struers, DK) cold mounting resin was used as the embedding medium. It is a transparent dual-component resin combining epoxy and a hardener. This product was chosen for its low fluorescence⁷², cold curing, easy use, accessibility, low shrinking, and proven applicability for artworks²⁶. The resin with no sample inserted yet was introduced in a CitoVac chamber for vacuum impregnation (Struers, DK). This helps remove bubbles in the resin, which reduces the stability and strength of the resin⁷³.

Jaques V.A., Zikmundová E., Holas J., Zikmund T., Kaiser J, & Holcová K. (2022). Cyclododecane shaping, sublimation rate and residue analysis for the extraction of painting micro-samples from resin cross-sections. Scientific Reports, 12, 19654.

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Ceramic Membrane Microstructure Analysis

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Small specimens of ceramic membrane samples were mounted by embedding them within low viscosity epoxy resin (EpoFix, Struers, Denmark) under vacuum (CitoVac chamber, Struers, Denmark) to fill in the inner porosity voids and to preserve microstructures of porous membranes. Cured mounts were ground to expose transversal cross-sections of membranes and were subsequentially polished ending with 3 mm diamond paste.
The obtained membrane material samples were analysed with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy (JEOL 6010PLUS/LA) with an acceleration voltage of 20 kV in secondary (SE) and backscattered electron (BSE) modes.

Salar-García M.J., Walter X.A., Gurauskis J., de Ramón Fernández A, & Ieropoulos I. (2021). Effect of iron oxide content and microstructural porosity on the performance of ceramic membranes as microbial fuel cell separators. Electrochimica Acta, 367, 137385.

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