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In the news this month...

Appointment to the Highest Level of the ZEISS Technical Ladder

Dr. Michael Kempe and Dr. Michael Totzeck have been designated as Fellows, the highest level of the ZEISS technical ladder. They both work at Corporate Research & Technology. Kempe is Head of the Technology area. Totzeck is Head of Industrial and Consumer Innovations. President and CEO of ZEISS Dr. Michael Kaschke congratulated them both on their designation and thanked them for their excellent work to date...

Untangling DNA with a Droplet of Water, a Pipet and a Polymer

Researchers have long sought an efficient way to untangle DNA in order to study its structure – neatly unraveled and straightened out – under a microscope. Now, chemists and engineers at KU Leuven, in Belgium, have devised a strikingly simple and effective solution: they inject genetic material into a droplet of water and use a pipet tip to drag it over a glass plate covered with a sticky polymer. The droplet rolls like a ball over the plate, sticking the DNA to the plate surface. The unraveled DNA can then be studied under a microscope....

Renishaw and Bruker Team up for a Workshop on TERS and Co-Localised AFM Raman

Renishaw, a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, has teamed up with Bruker's Nano Surfaces Division to host a series of workshops on TERS and co-localised AFM Raman. An audience of spectroscopists and microscopists recently attended the joint workshop designed to illustrate how to make tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy more accessible to users. Four talks on the techniques, backed by various applications examples...

FluoView FVMPE-RS multiphoton system - two new microscopes for live cell and in-vivo imaging

Olympus has announced the release of two new configurations of the FluoView FVMPE-RS multiphoton laser scanning microscope series - a Gantry microscope frame and an inverted microscope frame. The flagship offering in the range of Olympus biological microscopes, the FluoView FVMPE-RS series is widely used in life science research....

Deben reports on the research of Professors Duncan Bassett and Graham Williams of Imperial College, London.

Deben, leading providers of in-situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for electron microscopy, report on the research of Professors Duncan Bassett and Graham Williams who are applying BSE-SEM imaging to identify genetic determinants of bone and cartilage disorders. ...

Thermal Imaging for Science / R&D

FLIR Systems have published a new handbook, available as an interactive pdf or iBook for iPad, that allows you to discover thermal imaging applications advances that researchers are making around the world. Researchers and engineers are using FLIR research grade thermal imaging cameras every day to solve challenges that are difficult by other means, or to improve on, or replace time consuming techniques like IR thermocouples. Thermal imaging cameras provide non-contact temperature measurement....

XEI Scientific and University of Southern California announce a publication in Advanced Materials on the use of downstream plasma cleaning

The paper released in the Journal of Advanced Materials reports on the direct bandgap transition in many-layer MoS2 by plasma-induced layer decoupling and their use of XEI's Soft Clean plasma cleaning system for sample preparation. The research team of Associate Professor Stephen Cronin is located in the Ming Hseih Department of Electrical Engineering at USC Los Angeles. They focus mainly on optical spectroscopy and electron transport at the nanometer scale...

JPK reports on the use of optical tweezers in the Schieber Research Group at Illinois Institute of Technology

The Schieber Research Group is led by Jay Schieber, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he is also Director of the Center for Molecular Study of Condensed Soft Matter. Current research focuses on the kinetic theory of macromolecules to model the rheological, thermodynamic and thermal behaviour of polymeric fluids. These models are then used to predict the properties of advanced materials during and after processing...