How to prepare herbarium specimen for scanning electron microscopy?

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Subir Bandyopadhyay

I have never used but heard that the surface of the leaves from herbarium specimens can be cleaned with ultrasonic devise

Thierry Otto

Specimen are dry you can only use a kind of blowgun with filtered air or neutral gaz like NO2. If you want use ultrasonic device you are oblige to put your sample in water and you can’t scan it only after dried.

Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman

You can use sticky tape or lint rollers :)