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Agilent Technologies Publishes New Vacuum Products Catalog
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced publication of the latest edition of its Vacuum Products Catalog. Tis 520-page compendium features 3,850 products and accessories, plus application and technical notes. Agilent’s Vacuum Products
Division serves customers in research and development, particle accelerators, mass spectrometry and other scientific instrumentation, nanotechnology, and industrial vacuum pro- cesses. Products include rough vacuum pumps, high vacuum pumps, ultra-high vacuum pumps, all-in-one pumping systems, vacuum measurement and control devices, and leak detectors.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
www.agilent.com/chem/vacuumcatalog
Omniprobe Joins Oxford Instruments
Omniprobe has been acquired by UK-based Oxford Instruments Group. Joining the Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis division, the move will provide opportunities to expand product lines and develop new solutions for the nanoanalysis market. It will also enable Omniprobe to take advantage of Oxford Instruments’s large sales and service network to offer our products to a wider group of customers. Omniprobe will continue to operate from Dallas, Texas, with the same committed team and products.
Omniprobe, Inc.
www.omniprobe.com
An Additional Patent Licensed for PAL-M Super-Resolution Technology
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess an additional patent for their invention of super-resolution localization microscopy. In 2007, Carl Zeiss received the exclusive rights to market this technology. U.S. Patent 7,864,314, published January 4, 2011, expands the patent protection to systems and methods using separation by photo-optical transformation of molecules between different energy states.
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging
www.zeiss.com/superresolution
Free Online Library of Cell Images Wins “The Labby”
Te Cell: An Image Library, is an online library of cellular images freely available to biomedical researchers, educators, and the general public. It celebrated its one-year anniversary on August 9, 2011 by
winning Te Scientist’s Readers’ Choice Award for favorite website. Te Cell has more than 3,000 searchable images and has attracted 65,000 visits from 157 countries. It was created by ASCB in collaboration with Glencoe Soſtware and the Open Microscopy Environment.
The American Society for Cell Biology
www.cellimagelibrary.org
2011 November •
www.microscopy-today.com
New cGMP Analytical Services Laboratory Helps Customers Ensure FDA Compliance
ASPEX Corporation is expanding its business opportunities and is now a provider of contract analytical services according to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) as outlined by the Food and Drug Administration. ASPEX’s new Quality Management System is compliant
with cGMP guidelines and enables pharmaceutical companies to design, improve, and validate their products and processes through ASPEX’s unique blend of scanning electron and energy dispersive X-ray microscopy (SEM/EDX) hardware, soſtware, and reporting technology.
ASPEX Corporation
www.aspex.com
Thermo Fisher Scientific Presents $35,000 Distinguished Research Award
Termo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has presented Dr. Judit Villen of the University of Washington, Seattle, with the renowned American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2011 Research Award of $35,000. Sponsored by Termo Fisher Scientific for more than 20 years and administered by ASMS, the annual award recognizes and supports breakthrough academic research by young scientists in the field of mass spectrometry (MS).
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
www.thermofisher.com
XEI Scientific, Inc. Celebrates 20 Years of Serving the Electron Microscopy
XEI Scientific Inc, manufacturers of more than 1,100 EVACTRON® De-Contaminator Plasma Cleaning Systems for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, celebrated 20 years in the service of the electron microscopy community with a full agenda at this year’s Microscopy & Microanalysis event held in Nashville in August. M&M 2011 saw the successful launch of the Evactron CombiCleanTM System, an all-in-one plasma cleaning solution that simplifies the control and operation of multiple plasma radical sources.
XEI Scientific Inc
www.Evactron.com
Asylum Research Installs First Cypher™ AFM in China
Asylum Research announced that it has installed the first Cypher AFM system in China at the South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Cypher, the world’s fastest
high-resolution AFM, was installed in the lab of Professor Xingsen Gao at the SCNU Institute for Advanced Materials by personnel from Asylum Research and Grapes Hangzhou Technology Co. Ltd, Asylum’s representative in China. Professor Gao’s group will use the Cypher system to investi- gate advanced piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials.
Asylum Research Corp
www.AsylumResearch.com
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