Diatome cryo diamond knives may be used for all low temperature situations.
- Produce thinner sections
- Ultrathin and semithin sections with the same knife
- Easy to produce long ribbons of sections
- Less compression and greater uniformity of sections
- No waiting for temperature equilibration (no knife manufacturing or knife changing)
It is used in sectioning of cryo-protected specimens, frozen hydrated specimens and industrial samples such as polymers and rubber. Section thickness range 30 nm – 1 µm.