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Nanoscale Study Helps Assess Clinpro Toothpaste’s Hypersensitivity Benefits

A nanoscale analysis conducted by McCrone Associates using field emission scanning electron microscopy has provided the visual evidence for patient-reported hypersensitivity advantages of Clinpro toothpaste, a product of 3M ESPE.

15 Feb 2012

The Scientist Selects N-SIM Microscope for 2011 Top Ten Innovations List

A judging panel of experts has selected Nikon Instruments’ N-SIM super resolution microscope as one of the products of The Scientist's Top Ten Innovations of 2011.

20 Jan 2012

CRAIC Technologies Adds Kinetic Spectroscopy Package to Microspectrophotometer

CRAIC Technologies, a provider of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy products, has declared that it has added kinetic spectroscopy features to its 20/20 Perfect Vision UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer.

From CRAIC Technologies 11 Jan 2012

Checkpoint Technologies Releases 3.0 NA SIL for Laser Scanning Microscopy System

Checkpoint Technologies, a provider of laser scanning and photon emission microscopy systems for applications in the failure analysis industry, has unveiled its 3.0 numerical aperture (NA) solid immersion lens objective (SIL).

7 Jan 2012

Microscope.com and BigC.com Introduce Portable Fluorescence Microscope

Microscope.com and BigC.com have partnered to debut the Dino-Lite AM4113T-GFBW, the latest member of the Dino-Lite series. The AM4113T-GFBW is a portable fluorescence microscope. Fluorescence takes place when light having one wavelength is re-emitted at a different wavelength by matter.

4 Jan 2012

University of Warsaw Develops STED Microscope Prototype with 100 nm Resolution

The development of stimulated emission depletion (STED) confocal microscopes has paved the way to overcome the diffraction limit of optical microscopes, which causes a restriction in studying objects having size below 200 nm.

3 Jan 2012

Carl Zeiss Celebrate 10th Anniversary of AURIGA CrossBeam FIB-SEM Technology

Carl Zeiss Microscopy, a company of the Carl Zeiss Group and leading provider of light, laser-scanning and electron and ion beam microscopes, today announced the celebration of its tenth anniversary of the AURIGA© CrossBeam© FIB-SEM technology.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 18 Dec 2011

Researchers Develop Microscope for High Spatial Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies

Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) scientists have created a novel microscope for performing X-ray spectroscopic studies of single nanoparticles and nanostructures at high spatial resolution at the nanoscale.

9 Dec 2011

Researchers Study Toxicity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Skin

In order to study the toxic effects on skin by zinc oxide nanoparticles, the commonly used ingredient in sunscreen products, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Australia has devised an optical method to quantitatively examine the zinc oxide nanoparticle concentration level at various skin depths.

3 Dec 2011

Researchers Build Prototype of Vector Potential Photoelectron Microscope

Raymond Browning of R. Browning Consultants has developed a first-of-its-kind X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic microscope at the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.

30 Nov 2011