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The Catholic University of Murcia continues its strong commitment in research, and one of its policy revolves around the Scanning Electron Microscope which it acquired last year.
Not only the different grades and departments UCAM are working with this new tool to advance in areas such as health, food, architecture or criminology, but also other universities, technology centers and research are making use it.
At first the university has worked on the design of the methodology and calibration both own microscope and all accessories that make it, in order to achieve maximum accuracy and performance is greater.
Currently from the UCAM is working with microscope in various areas;
in the field of engineering, procurement of samples for a comparative study of materials;
characterization of several examples of clay powder;
or the study of samples from a submarine.
In the field of health, it is acquiring images of samples nanoencapsulated (The goal is to protect fragrances or essential oils that have properties, for example antioxidants, by using complex sugars) or microanalysis, imaging and characterization of material samples of titanium dioxide;
also noteworthy that this work has been published in the leading journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
Further investigations are being made from the Catholic University of Murcia under the microscope, is the study of a human hair from archaeological remains.
Teaching support
The electron microscope is also a tool to support teaching.
An example of this is the seminar for Cell Biology in which first-year students of the Degree in Medicine UCAM, which could see, through this, various organs of a rodent part.
Similarly, and in the face of this course are various actions relating to scheduled microscope, such as the launch of the workstation Cryo-SEM, which will work with samples which by their nature need to be fixed by freezing .
First insights on the Shroud
Flax, alo and myrrh, wood pulp paper, pollen or hepiteliales cells (cells that line the inner and outer surfaces of the body, forming lumps or cell layers) and blood, are some of the samples found in the first analyzes the UCAM the 'Shroud of Ovideo', thanks to the Scanning Electron Microscope.
After months of study of the microscope, with the aim to calibrate the maximum and the samples were analyzed in the best possible conditions, good progress textile research, palynological, criminology and hematologic samples of the Shroud.
Section Chief Forensic Histopathology of Murcia Institute of Legal Medicine, and director of the Research Team of the Spanish Centre for Sindonology (EDICES), Alfonso Sánchez Hermosilla, who is currently working with a microscope, has stated that it will not only advance considerably in investigating the Shroud of Oviedo, "but that experience will allow us in the future, even solve real cases of crimes that have been committed, from textile material or biological material that can be found in the scene" he asserted.
The rector of research at the UCAM, Estrella Nunez says that "within the strategic actions marked the institution is to increase the mass of researchers," since this is one of the basic pillars on which the structure is founded academic and training of the Murcia university.
Source: UCAM
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