Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) has selected JPK Instruments’ NanoWizard®II, the next generation of BioAFM, to become a new member of its nano instrumentation platform. The atomic force microscope will mainly be used for their new activities within the area of nanobiology. iNANO is located at the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark (www.inano.dk), and is headed by Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of Scanning Probe Microscopy and especially Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. The center is a unique interdisciplinary nanoscience center where competences in physics, chemistry, molecular biology and biology meet in fundamental nanoscience studies and more applied entrepreneurial activities within nanotechnology.
The NanoWizard®II system will be applied to advance the research in microbiology and cell biology, where advanced fluid operation capabilities as well as high-resolution in closed loop AFM imaging are a necessity. The research group of Assistant Prof. R. Meyer chose the NanoWizard®II system, because the NanoWizard combines advanced AFM capabilities with the full capabilities of modern inverted optical microscopes, such as phase contrast, DIC and fluorescence imaging with JPK’s DirectOverlay™. Moreover, it allows the combination of advanced optical methods, such as TIRF, confocal laser scanning and FCS with the AFM.
JPK’s unique DirectOverlay™ software provides a key functionality that enables the seamless integration of optical and AFM measurements. A patented calibration procedure compensates for the errors of optical imaging to allow a perfect match between optical and real-space three dimensional AFM imaging.
The NanoWizard®II installation at the iNANO center in Aarhus underlines JPK’s track record and superiority of the NanoWizard®II for interdisciplinary applications where biology, physics and chemistry meet in the context of nanoscience. Torsten Jähnke, the CTO of JPK Instruments comments: “We are pleased that our NanoWizard®II has been selected by the iNANO center, and we are proud to continue working with pioneers in the SPM field like Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, and ambitious researchers like Assistant Profs. R. Meyer and W. Mamdouh.” JPK is looking forward to continue the cooperation with the iNANO research group in Aarhus to further push the development of new applications of the AFM in the biological nanosciences forward.
The NanoWizard®II system will be applied to advance the research in microbiology and cell biology, where advanced fluid operation capabilities as well as high-resolution in closed loop AFM imaging are a necessity. The research group of Assistant Prof. R. Meyer chose the NanoWizard®II system, because the NanoWizard combines advanced AFM capabilities with the full capabilities of modern inverted optical microscopes, such as phase contrast, DIC and fluorescence imaging with JPK’s DirectOverlay™. Moreover, it allows the combination of advanced optical methods, such as TIRF, confocal laser scanning and FCS with the AFM.
JPK’s unique DirectOverlay™ software provides a key functionality that enables the seamless integration of optical and AFM measurements. A patented calibration procedure compensates for the errors of optical imaging to allow a perfect match between optical and real-space three dimensional AFM imaging.
The NanoWizard®II installation at the iNANO center in Aarhus underlines JPK’s track record and superiority of the NanoWizard®II for interdisciplinary applications where biology, physics and chemistry meet in the context of nanoscience. Torsten Jähnke, the CTO of JPK Instruments comments: “We are pleased that our NanoWizard®II has been selected by the iNANO center, and we are proud to continue working with pioneers in the SPM field like Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, and ambitious researchers like Assistant Profs. R. Meyer and W. Mamdouh.” JPK is looking forward to continue the cooperation with the iNANO research group in Aarhus to further push the development of new applications of the AFM in the biological nanosciences forward.
