CMS196M automated mapping of an EM grid at high resolution.
The cryo-correlative stage, CMS196M can automatically map EM grids at high resolution making it a simple matter to find and record the co-ordinates of the key areas of interest in your sample. The video above shows how easy it is to set up the CMS196M with the new LINK software and create high resolutions maps of the full EM grid.
This March, the Friedrich-Alexander University’s ‘Freeze Drying Focus Group’ will be presented in English for the first time.
The 1 day seminar includes sessions on:
The Basic Principles of Freeze Drying
The ‘World of Thermal Analysis’ Using Freeze Dry Microscopy — which will be co-presented by Linkam’s Dr Michael Schwertner
Defining the quality of a Freeze Dried product
Instrument Demonstration and Laboratory Practice
Designing a Freeze Drying Cycle
and New insights in Freeze Drying of Co-Solvent Systems.
This is the University's Department of Pharmaceutics’ 11th Annual Seminar, and it is an event that has always proved very popular in the past.
The seminar brings together people from academia, the pharmaceutical industry and vendors & suppliers of equipment to initiate sound scientific discussions in the field of freeze drying and also provides updates on the latest trends and research interests in this field.
Our FDCS196 Freeze Drying Cryo Stage will be on show throughout the day.
More information and details on how to register for the seminar can be found here.
Linkam stage. Photo by Linkam's Jim Hayward
Welcome back everybody, and a Happy New Year!
At Linkam we have set ourselves a couple of resolutions for the year 2016.
Firstly, we will seek more feedback regarding our stages, so we can continue to refine them to best meet our users’ wants and needs. We hope this is something you might be able to help us with and look forward to talking with you all a bit more over the coming year.
Secondly, we will release a whole range of exciting new products, including our new LINK64 software.
For updates keep an eye on the website, and on our Twitter and LinkedInpages. Or, if you want to come and see us in person, you can find details of the trade shows Linkam, and our distributors, will be attending in 2016 over on our events page.
Nematic Liquid Crystals. Photo by Dr Vance Williams, Simon Fraser University.
We recently discovered an amazing liquid crystal photo gallery, with a collection of microphotographs all taken using a Linkam LTS350 stage (predecessor to the LTS420).
The photos were taken by Dr Vance Williams, an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, who is Principal Investigator in an organic materials chemistry group called the Williams Research Group.
The group works with liquid crystals, molecular photoswitches and birefringent materials.
Their liquid crystal research focuses on uncovering the factors and interactions that control the self-assembly of liquid crystals through the design and synthesis of new liquid crystalline materials.
Liquid crystals are an intermediate state of matter between conventional liquids and solid crystals, with properties of both. There are many types of liquid crystal phases, which are distinguishable by their different optical properties. Viewed under a polarised light microscope, their different phases show impressive textures and birefringence colours.
The best known application of liquid crystals is in electronic displays, specifically ‘liquid crystal displays’ (LCDs) for computer monitors and televisions, But they can also be found in abundance in living systems, for example, as proteins and cell membranes.
Dr Williams is a keen microphotographer, an example of his work can be seen above, but for more pictures visit his site. We hope we will be able to feature more of his work in the future.