After weeks of continuous and unvarying disappointment in the results of my samples, I got a very pleasant surprise. The TEM came back from a recent batch, and the results are stunning. A beautifully monodisperse monolayer of particles, with long range ordering. It's the kind of monolayer picture I could present at a conference. And most surprising of all, I didn't even use the Langmuir trough! Nope -- it's just a single drop applied by pipet to a TEM grid.

All my best TEM pics are available in the TEM album. Unfortunately I never wrote the code to link directly to an individual image, so you'll have to hunt around. Should be pretty obvious which one it is, though, and the rest of the pictures are pretty too. Note the scale bar in the bottom left, which tells you about the size!