Our customers work in a wide range of industries and research disciplines, and we are always excited to see published work featuring our instruments. We have more than 35,000 mentions in papers and articles indexed by Google scholar – and that’s not including papers that have not been digitised in the online library. That’s a lot of research!
Temperature and environmental control are critical in fully understanding the characteristics and behaviour of materials under investigation, and researchers and industrial users alike have come to rely on Linkam products to help answer their questions and overcome their challenges.
Our systems are used to characterise materials from polymers to biological tissue, and metals to composites, in sectors including geology, life science and pharmaceuticals, semiconductor / electrical, materials, metallurgy, plastics and polymers, space science, food science, and oil and gas.
Scientists trust Linkam to develop products to enable their research. Many of our standardised sample characterisation systems started out as an idea brought to us by a scientist either dissatisfied with what was available or looking to create something completely new.
Recently published work featuring Linkam products includes:
1. A paper published by the University of Petra, Jordan, which describes for the first time the formation of room temperature therapeutic deep eutectic solvent (THEDES) of RIS, an antipsychotic drug that is used in the treatment of schizophrenia, mixed and manic states associated with bipolar disorder, and irritability in children and adolescents with autism. Our FDCS196 stage was used in this study to develop a novel transdermal delivery system for Risperidone.
2. A team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast and University College London, (UCL), developed a new strategy for the manufacture of high drug-loaded amorphous solid dispersions (HDASD) using a hot-melt extrusion (HME) based platform. Using a Linkam THMS600 heating and cooling stage with T94 controller and LNP liquid nitrogen cooling system, the study was able to directly observe the temperature dependences of the X-ray scattering pattern for the crystalline drugs (IND, NPX and IBU) in the presence of a polymeric carrier.
3. Researchers from the University of Huddersfield’s Thermal Methods Research Unit (TMRU) combined differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) with thermomicroscopy to shed light on materials’ energy changes and optical features in this recent paper, using our Optical DSC450 System.
4. A study by Swansea University used a Linkam LTS420E-P attached to a novel ultra-sensitive external quantum efficiency system to characterise the photogeneration process of organic solar cells. The study proved it is possible to achieve near-unity charge generation quantum yields in organic solar cells.
Those are just some of the many recent examples where our systems have helped researchers to make important breakthroughs.
Have a look for yourself! You may find papers showing how researchers have used Linkam stages in your own area of research. Or maybe your field is entirely new, and you’ll be the first to use one of our stages in your application.
If you are looking for help controlling the temperature or environment of material you are studying, contact us to find out how we could help with an existing or customised solution.
