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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Michal Kuchar, Guus Rekers, Verena Zinschitz, Nick Altena, Inez van Winden, Kiki de Vries, Oliver Lohr, Lucía Calzado García, Daniel Lippens and Joris Hoogeweegen for help with recording and editing videos, as well as adding and formatting content, and to Carola van der Muren for organizing the Open Interactive Textbooks teaching assistant support.

We are further grateful to Kerim Arat, Giel Coemans (both TUD), and Peter Duinkerken (UMC Groningen) for providing respectively the scattering simulation, charging artefact images and EDX spectra in chapter 5.

This work was supported by the TU Delft Open Textbook initiative, the CIFIC convergence flagship program of TU Delft, Erasmus University and Erasmus Medical Center, and the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Initiative (NEMI).

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