A facile method for the stain‐free visualization of hierarchical structures with electron microscopy

P.E.W. thanks the AWE and E.A. thanks Schlumberger for financial support, and J.d.B is grateful for a Marie Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship (project # 273807). This work was also supported by an ERC Starting Investigator Grant (ASPiRe) and a Next Generation Fellowship provided by the Walters-Kundert Foundation.

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