38 New Upright Microscope Range Announced
Motic Scientific Instruments makes a step forward and launches its newest upright microscope range, the Panthera series. The world of microscopy is an experienced world of precise scientific instruments with huge applications within all fields. The Panthera microscope series is a smart combination of user-friendly and advanced technology that, combined with a simple operational method of connectivity to the world of scientific instruments, embodies accuracy and precision.
Motic’s Panthera microscope series not only has a new and original design, but it also features a patented rackless stage with a surprising never-seen-before sample holder, a coded LED nosepiece and a LED condenser that allow to automatise and simplify the user’s work. The new objectives with ultra-high contrast and very flat Field of View, together with the new eyepieces, give bright, detailed and sharp images for new insights.
If there’s a word to define the Panthera series, is Smart. Its most extraordinary feature, the new ImagingOnDevice System, offers endless options to work with digitised images, changing the conventional microscope concept by turning it into a complete digital microscopy workstation.
“In today’s daily life with the world at our fingertips, it is common to snap a picture, post it and share it with your social circle. Why not combine that? Why not take out the complexity of the scientific instrument by replacing it with simple-to-use connectivity? Why not make things easier?” Sebastian Nunnendorf, Motic Scientific Instruments Product Developer said.
Remarkable incorporations such as modulation contrast or DIC, and a wide range of intermediate modules and specific optics, make the Panthera series diverse and fit for all environments. A whole new array of possibilities especially created to cover all areas, from the educational field, going through to the most advanced models for clinics, laboratories and up to applications for industrial and material sciences.
The Panthera microscope series has been created to make workflow easier, with the intent of it not being just another work tool, but a fellow worker to trust in. Motic’s Panthera microscope series was presented at Booth 10/G46 at Medica Exhibition in Dusseldorf Germany from the 14th until the 17th of November. Know more at
www.moticpanthera.com
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New Desktop Microscope Delivering Super-Resolution Performance Announced
Developed in the Clarendon Laboratory in the Physics Department at the University of Oxford, Oxford Nanoimaging™ (ONI) announces the release of the exciting desktop fluorescence microscope, the Nanoimager™, to deliver nanoscale resolution imaging of live cells. This innovative approach from the Kapanidis Gene-Machines team aims to democratise the use of powerful single-molecule imaging and super-resolution microscopy technology. With a low cost of entry and ease of use, Nanoimager opens opportunities for nanoscale research without the need for a large, specialist laboratory and without a daunting training and operating burden.
The Kapanidis group have generated stunning nanoscale images of cellular features with ten times the resolution of conventional fluorescence microscopy. Single-molecule imaging capability enables the understanding of biomolecular processes, one molecule at a time. Going further, as the most advanced commercially available FRET solution, Nanoimager can measure the dynamics of molecular interactions and structural transitions such as detecting the assembly of protein subunits or observing the synthesis of DNA in real-time.
The Nanoimager microscope unit is just 21 cm x 21 cm x 15 cm. It has been engineered from the bottom up for optimum single-molecule imaging functionality. It may be operated on a regular desk or bench without the need for extra anti-vibration or environmental isolation. The inherently robust design works together with passive dampening elements to reduce vibrations and drift, and real-time focus and sample positioning provides the stability for data collection over many hours.
The clear and intuitive user interface helps research users new to single-molecule localisation work toward rapid productivity. The large field of view, real-time data analysis features, and high degree of instrument automation enable high-throughput workflows, directly applicable to the wide range of emergent single-molecule screening applications.
Co-inventors, Professor Achillefs Kapanidis and PhD student, Bo Jing, lead the team to break ground in this new approach to super-resolution microscopy, a project with an eight-year heritage. Professor Kapanidis said: “The new microscope can take single-molecule imaging out of physics labs and central facilities and into the hands of the chemist, the biologist, the biotechnologist. It is not only an excellent instrument for super- resolution imaging, but also a versatile, user-friendly toolbox that will help new users innovate with single molecules as their new currency.”
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Report on High Temperature Stage Use for Research on the Properties of 2D Materials
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the use of their high temperature TS1500 stage for research into the properties of 2D materials.
Professor Yong Zhang is the Bissell Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC). He leads a group which studies how an epitaxial or supporting substrate can impact the material properties of a 2D material that is often presumed to have weak bonding with the substrate. In addition, they investigate a thermal activation process that requires high temperature capability. In turn, a high temperature experimental set up allows the study of thermal stability under various conditions.
Since choosing the Linkam TS1500 high temperature stage for their work, the group has used the stage multiple times to study different material systems with the goals of understanding the effects of substrate on 2D materials to reveal the intrinsic properties of the materials and control and modify them with substrate engineering. These include black phosphorus, monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), tungsten disulphide (WS2) and graphene. Other materials, such as copper-zinc-tin selenide (CZTSe), a new solar cell material, have resulted in publications.
Professor Zhang has noted several key findings from this research. He said: “We have made some important findings which are common among 2D materials. Firstly, we saw that film properties are sensitive to not only the substrate type (e.g. SiO2
vs. sapphire) but also the bonding
situation (e.g. epitaxially grown vs. transferred). Second, we found that high temperature studies reveal how film morphology impacts the material properties and how morphology changes with heating. We also saw that the sensitivity of the substrate influence on the film thickness depends on the material property of interest. For instance, the effect of the substrate remains significant for thermal conductivity of the film even the film is already relatively thick, but is much less significant for electronic properties.”
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