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NanoWizard®II
goes north - First installation at the outstanding interdisciplinary
Nanoscience Center in Denmark
— January 31, 2007
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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.
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