TITLE:
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) of the Bug Eye and Sand Coral
AUTHORS:
Sayid Ali Sayid, Aliyu Dadan-Garba, Daniel Elaigwu Enenche, Barnabas Achakpa Ikyo
KEYWORDS:
Bug Eye, Sand Coral, Scanning Electron Microscopy
JOURNAL NAME:
Microscopy Research,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
31,
2020
ABSTRACT: We present a Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
technique for the characterisation of biological and non-biological samples at
nano-scale level. Scanning Electron Microscopy has been around for a long while
especially in material science laboratories in developed countries. The SEM has
enabled scientist to have a better understanding of microstructure by providing
unsurpassed optical magnifications of samples. In this introductory paper, we introduce the techniques of using SEM to capture
highly magnified microstructure of a fly found on an African soybean (Glycine
max) seed. We are able to estimate the number of lenses in each eye and zoom into
features that could describe its life characteristics. Hexagonal lenses are
estimated to have sizes ranging from 14 um to 19 um. This paper also presents a
finding of a sea coral “pie like structure” on a single grain of sand used for
water filtration.