JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the study of the research work of Dr Paul Squires and his colleagues at the University of Warwick. Dr Paul Squires and Dr Claire Hills from the School of Life Sciences (SLS) at the University of Warwick […]

HOUSTON — Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with CGG (NYSE/Euronext: CGG) for RoqSCAN™ technology offered by CGG. RoqSCAN is a real-time, fully portable, quantitative and automated rock properties and mineralogical analyzer. Developed by Robertson, a CGG company, and Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd., RoqSCAN delivers highly quantitative […]

TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING, a.s., a multinational company experienced in charged particle optics, and WITec GmbH, a distinguished German specialist in Raman and scanning probe microscopy, jointly launch RISE Microscopy at Analytica 2014. RISE Microscopy is a novel correlative microscopy technique which combines confocal Raman Imaging and Scanning Electron (RISE) Microscopy within one integrated microscope system. […]

Santa Clara, CA — Nanounity announces that it has entered into an agreement with HybriScan Technologies to distribute their Raman spectrometer designed for scanning electron microscopes (SEM). SEM Raman is a powerful combination of technologies providing high-resolution imaging and identification of chemical composition. The HybriScan Molecular Microscope (HSCMM) is a Raman microscope specifically developed to […]

San Diego, CA – Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, today announced the launch of the world’s first commercially available laser-based infrared microscopy platform. The microscope, marketed under the name SperoTM, opens up a new world of research possibilities with breakthrough chemical imaging and analysis on […]

Shanghai/China, Jena/Germany — ZEISS introduces a new imaging system for material analysis at the Laser World of Photonics China 2014 trade show in Shanghai. ZEISS Primotech is used both in industrial quality control as well as in the education of geologists and mineralogists. In routine applications, customers can quickly and reproducibly analyze their products within […]

Sheffield UK: Phase Focus Ltd (Phasefocus), the company that is revolutionising microscopy and imaging with the Phasefocus Virtual Lens®, reports on how optical lens practitioners are using the Phasefocus high-precision Lens Profiler to study potential clinical complications arising from corneal oxygen deficiency. Contact lens manufacturers universally quote values for oxygen transmissibility (Dk/t) to the cornea […]

Clifton Park, NY –Kitware has announced a new Department of Energy SBIR Phase I award to develop an open-source platform for materials reconstruction using scanning transmission electron microscopes (S/TEM).Scanning transmission electron microscopes have advanced the state-of-the-art in the field, facilitating the 3D characterization of materials at the nano and mesoscale. The importance of this type […]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the study of how force regulates the structures and conformational dynamics of biomacromolecules using AFM-based single molecule force spectroscopy, a project of Professor Yi Cao of Nanjing University. Professor Yi Cao is a member of the Institute […]

Hillsboro, Ore. — FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) announced today that it has completed the installation of a suite of high-end electron microscopes at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) new Centre for Soft Materials. The systems installed include the Tecnai Osiris™ transmission electron microscope (TEM) and Helios™ DualBeam™ (scanning electron microscope/focused ion beam). These systems join several other […]