If you are interested, i will give you more information later. Marine Biology Lab. It would be quite difficult to cut carbon inside the cell in a relatively soft resin. The whole thing looks impossible anyway to try and polymerize on the microscope stage with heat. If UV light could be passed down the microscope at the right wavelength then polymerization could take place that way, and a cover slip may be used to prevent evaporation from an open tray or to exclude oxygen, if necessary.
Evaporation is minimal at low temperatures if the specimen can be kept cold on the microscope stage.