Microscopy

Companies Microscopy

Carl Roth GmbH + Co. KG, Germany

Carl Roth, the expert consultation for labware, life science and chemicals for more than 140 years. With around 30,000 articles available and a round-the-clock delivery service within Germany, we are the partner that research, scientific and technical laboratories can rely on. Furthermore, we devel more

Bruker Nano GmbH, Germany

Bruker Nano is part of the Bruker Group, a leading brand in scientific instrumentation. We are a supplier of highest quality analytical instrumentation for electron microscopy. Another important part of our product portfolio are spectrometers for micro X-ray fluorescence analysis (Micro-XRF) and tot more

WITec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Technologie GmbH, Germany

Manufacturer of high resolution optical and scanning probe microscopy solutions for scientific and industrial applications. A modular product line allows the combination of different microscopy techniques such as Raman, NSOM or AFM in one instrument for flexible analyses of optical, chemical and str more

Products Microscopy

Easily Cut and Analyze Your Films for FTIR- and Raman-Microanalysis with This New Tool

Cutting and analyzing films, paper, multilayers for FTIR- and Raman Microanalysis can be sometimes very challenging more

Optical Microscope with Integrated FT-IR – Nicolet iN10

The Nicolet iN10 is an intuitive, integrated infrared microscope offering the simplicity of an FT-IR spectrometer with the ability to measure samples down to a few microns more

Raman Microspectroscopy with Automatic Focus Tracking to Save You Time and Effort

Raman microscopy without the need for time-consuming manual focusing, pre-scanning or sample preparation more

News Microscopy

• Graphene layer enables advance in super-resolution microscopy
  

  Researchers at the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that takes advantage of the unusual properties of graphene to electromagnetically interact with fluorescing (light-emitting) molecules. This method allows scientists to optically measure extremely small distances, in the order of more

• First high-speed hard X-ray microscopic movies at a free-electron laser

  A group of researchers has for the first time performed high-speed microscopy using an X-ray laser at the European XFEL. The team produced a super slow-motion movie of a bursting glass capillary with micrometre spatial resolution. The method allows for observations of processes that take place at sp more

• Chemistry in motion
  

  For the first time, researchers have managed to view previously inaccessible details of certain chemical processes. They have shown there are significant discrete stages to these processes which build on our knowledge of chemical synthesis. These details could aid in the development of methods to sy more

Videos Microscopy

Optical Microscope with Integrated FT-IR – Nicolet iN10

The Nicolet iN10 FT-IR microscope, empowered by Thermo Scientific™ OMNIC™ Picta™ software, simplifies infrared microscopy spectroscopy, enabling chemists in analytical and investigative chemistry laboratories to take full advantage of the technique’s power. The Nicolet iN10 is an intuitive, integrat more

Combine microscopy and chemical analysis: the automated FTIR-Microscope LUMOS

LUMOS – FT-IR microscopy made easy more

Nanomaterials Up Close: Gum Arabic

This alien glob is a piece of gum arabic from the hardened sap of the Acacia tree, most likely collected from a tree in Sudan. Rox Middleton, from the University of Cambridge, explains how the electron microscope has changed the way we are able to interact with objects at the nanoscale, allowing ... more

White papers Microscopy

• Field-Flow Fractionation - The Universal Separation Principle for Particle and Macromolecule Characterization
  

  High molecular weight polymers, bio molecules or particles in a range of a few nanometers up to several microns are more and more important more

• Robust and Repeatable Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Characterization with FFF-MALS-DLS
  

  This article highlights a study demonstrating the benefits of FFF-MALS-DLS for the char- acterization of nanolipid particles more

• Size and element specific determination of Ag nanoparticles in consumer spray products using asymmetric flow field flow fractionation (AF4) coupled to ICPMS
  

  The use of nanoparticles in consumer products shows a tremendous increase over the past years. A study of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars reported that between 2005 and today the number of products based on nanoparticles increase more

Infographics Microscopy

The Philae Lander

You’ve probably heard the great news over the weekend that the European Space Agency’s Philae lander has awoken from its 7 month slumber on Comet 67P, and is once again relaying collected data back to Earth. You might have less of an idea, however, of what this data is, and why it’s important. This more

Revealing the structures of biomolecules with cryo-electron microscopy

The last of this year’s Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was awarded today. This year’s prize went to the development of cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that allows the structures of biomolecules to be revealed where other techniques fail. It also gives scientists insights into how more

Publications Microscopy

• Anodic dissolution growth of metal–organic framework HKUST-1 monitored via in situ electrochemical atomic force microscopy

  In situ electrochemical atomic force microscopy (ec-AFM) is utilised for the first time to probe the initial stages of metal–organic framework (MOF) coating growth via anodic dissolution. Using the example of the Cu MOF HKUST-1, real time surface analysis is obtained that supports and verifies many more

• “Tubular J-Aggregates of a New Thiacarbocyanine Cy5 Dye for the Far-red Spectral Region – A Spectroscopic and Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Study”

  The aggregation behavior of a phenol-substituted thiacarbocyanine Cy5 dye (5-chloro-2-[5-[5-chloro-3-(4-sulfobutyl)-3H-benzothiazol-2-ylidene]-3-phenyl-penta-1,3-dienyl]-3-(4-sulfo¬butyl)-benzothiazol-3-ium hydroxide, inner salt, triethylammonium salt) in aqueous solution is investigated using stead more

• In situ atomic-scale observation of inhomogeneous oxide reduction

  We report in situ atomic-scale transmission electron microscopy observations of the surface dynamics during Cu2O reduction. We show inhomogeneous oxide reduction caused by the preferential adsorption of hydrogen at step edges that induces oxygen loss and destabilizes Cu atoms within the step edge, t more

q&more articles Microscopy

• Light plus current: The formula for researching what happens to individual nanoparticles
  

  A combination of dark-field microscopy and electrochemistry can make individual nanoparticles in a liquid medium visible. The technique is suited to determine the activity of catalysts during their use. more

• Vibrational spectroscopy - Label-free imaging
  

  Spectroscopic methods are now granting us deep insights into biological systems at previously unattainable spatial and temporal resolutions. Complementing the already well-established fluorescence spectroscopy, the major potential of label-free vibrational spectroscopy has become clear in recent years. Multiscale analyses can be made of proteins, cells and tissue. more

• Macromolecular environments influence proteins
  

  The high-intensity interaction of proteins with other macromolecules can cause signifi cant changes to protein properties such as translational mobility, for example, or their conformational states. Accordingly, the study of proteins in macromolecular environments that typically very closely resemble physiological conditions or cell-like environments is of great interest. more

Authors Microscopy

• Mathies V. Evers
  

  Mathies Evers, born in 1989, studied chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he researched the synthesis of atom-precise molecular clusters. After his master's degree he started his doctoral thesis at the Chair of Analytical Chemistry II of Professor Dr. Kristina Tschulik and is supported by more

• Prof. Dr. Sepp D. Kohlwein
  

  Sepp D. Kohlwein, born in 1954, studied Technical Chemistry at Graz University of Technology and received his technical doctorate there in 1982 at the Institute of Biochemistry. Until 2001, he worked there as an associate professor. After several research stays at the Albert Einstein College of Medi more

• Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch
  

  Peter Gilch, born 1970, studied chemistry at the University of Konstanz before receiving his PhD in 1999 from the Technical University Munich. He then joined the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich for his Habilitation (2004) at the Lehrstuhl für BioMolekulare Optik. Since 2009 he has been a profes more