WASHINGTON — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has implemented its previously disclosed succession plan and will appoint Thomas P. Joyce, Jr. as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective September 9, 2014. Mr. Joyce’s predecessor, H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., will transition […]

Today Johnson Matthey, Oxford University and Diamond Light Source announce the creation of a state-of-the-art materials characterisation facility at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. This world class site is close to both Oxford University and Johnson Matthey’s Sonning Common Research laboratories and is home to Diamond, the UK’s synchrotron science facility, where currently 24 […]

Shimadzu Corporation has released the EPMA-8050G, a high-end electron probe microanalyzer. While maintaining excellent operability, this model is equipped with the latest field emission (FE) electron optical system, and achieves the world leading sensitivity and spatial resolution for an FE-EPMA instrument. EPMA can perform non-destructive analyses of a wide range of samples. They are primarily […]

TOKYO — Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation (Hitachi High-Tech Science, President: Toshiyuki Ikeda) announced the release of the AFM5000II, a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) controller, and the PS3500DDII, a sequential high resolution ICP Optical Emission Spectrometer. These instruments will be displayed at the “JASIS 2014,” to be held at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall from September […]

AXT Pty Ltd, a leading Australian supplier of high technology analytical solutions for industry and academia is proud to announce their association with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, with revenues in excess of US$ 17 billion. AXT and the Nano-scale Materials Analysis product lines of Thermo Fisher Scientific recently signed […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces their expansion into the US market with new distributors and the availability of the NanoWizard® AFM. JPK have been developing and supplying nanotechnology instrumentation for the materials & life sciences for more than twelve years. Having introduced their […]

Shimadzu Corporation has released the iMScope TRIO, an advanced imaging technology platform bringing together innovative mass spectrometry and high resolution morphological images. The iMScope TRIO builds on the iMScope developed in April 2013 as part of the Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency […]

Fremont, CA — JH Technologies, a leader in sales and support of microscope and digital imaging systems, and Leica Microsystems have expanded their regional coverage to include the Southern California market. Leica Microsystems, a technology leader in microscope and image analysis solutions, announced the strategic transition in its distribution representation in order to increase the […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how researchers at the University of Freiburg is combining the use of AFM and advanced fluorescence microscopy to characterize the local mechanical properties of cells. The research team of Junior Professor Dr Winfried Römer is located at […]

Sheffield UK — Phase Focus Ltd (Phasefocus), the company that is revolutionising microscopy and imaging with the Phasefocus Virtual Lens®, reports on how the Brien Holden Vision Institute is applying the Phasefocus high-precision Lens Profiler to assist in the development of new contact lenses. The core business of the Brien Holden Vision Institute is to […]