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Freeze Drying Simplified

Linkam Scientific Instruments attempt to quickly and simply explain the freeze drying process and how a freeze drying microscope can be used to optimise the drying cycle and save millions of dollars.

In the news this week...

New confocal technology enables fast and sensitive superresolution microscopy

ZEISS is introducing the LSM 880 with Airyscan. The new confocal laser scanning microscope offers high sensitivity, enhanced resolution in x, y and z, and high image-acquisition speed in one system. Surveys results reveal that confocal imaging would benefit the most from increased sensitivity, resolution, and speed. Airyscan extends exactly those parameters. Users achieve a 1.7× higher resolution in all...

DELMIC Reports on the SECOM Platform for Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy

DELMIC have developed an innovative product for life scientists - SECOM. The SECOM system is a platform that may be used to easily and quickly combine light and electron microscopy. In its primary configuration, the SECOM platform allows the user to obtain functional color information through fluorescence microscopy and structural information by using...

Cameca Launches Next Generation Atom Probe Microscope

CAMECA, a world leader in scientific instrumentation and metrology solutions, is pleased to announce the release of its latest generation atom probe microscope. The LEAP 5000 offers unparalleled 3-dimensional nano-scale surface, bulk and interfacial materials analysis with atom-by-atom identification and accurate spatial positioning....

XEI Scientific Launches the Revolutionary Evactron ES Plasma Cleaning System for the OEM Electron Microscope Market

“It just works™” - that is what XEI Scientific is saying about its new Evactron® ES De-Contaminator™ - designed for OEM integration on SEMs/FIBs. The ES model starts easily with patent pending “POP” plasma ignition process. The simplified Evactron Plasma Radical Source (PRS) performs high efficiency cleaning in almost any high vacuum system....

New Scopepad 500 and Montage Pad Imaging App from Syncroscopy Offers Microscopists an Easy Way to Produce Perfect Images of Samples
 

For microscopists who need perfectly focused images of 3D samples, a new Montage Pad App (an App version of AutoMontage, Syncroscopy’s widely acclaimed depth of focus software) is available for use exclusively with the Scopepad 500. The Montage Pad App captures an image series of the sample via the Scopepad 500 and then analyses and rapidly reconstructs the data into one fully focused image, thus saving users time manually overlaying images on their computer.....

EPFL Scientists Use Nanoscale IR Sectroscopy to Demonstrate α to β Secondary Structure Transition Associated with Amyloid Formation

Anasys Instruments reports on EPFL’s latest research on lysozyme droplets and α-synuclein macromolecular aggregates illustrating application of the nanoscale AFM-IR technique to demonstrate α to β secondary structure transition associated with amyloid formation.....

Simple Synchronization of Ultra High Speed Cameras to Transient Events

Often in ultra high-speed imaging, it is difficult to synchronize your camera to the event that you are trying to record and analyze. Using the very flexible multiple triggering capability of SIM cameras you can actually capture frames prior to the trigger. In this way SIM Ultra Fast Framing Cameras take the 'black magic' out of synchronizing camera and event allowing you to spend more time on capturing research data rather than setting up your experiment...

Study of Single Amyloid Molecules Wins Poster Competition at Swiss Physics Society Meeting

Francesco Simone Ruggeri is a member of the Doctoral Program in the group of Professor Giovanni Dietler, head of the Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The research activity of the laboratory of physics of living matter is mainly devoted to the study of DNA topology, cellular machines, protein mechanics and high-resolution low temperature Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)...

STFC Takes Delivery of the 100th Hitachi Tabletop SEM in the UK

STFC’s Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC) has strengthened its imaging capabilities by installing additional Hitachi benchtop SEMs at both its Harwell and Daresbury campuses. These two instruments represent the 100^th and 101^st benchtop SEM’s installed by Hitachi in the UK, with over 600 now being used around Europe...