Using Linkam’s HFS600E-PB4 Linkam probe stage at temperatures down to -70 °C (200K), this study looks at how temperature-dependent phase transitions affect the properties of piezoelectric materials, finding that ideal properties peaked around the low-temperature phase transitions.
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Researchers use the LTS420E-PB4 Linkam probe stage to analyse the carrier dynamics and optoelectronic properties of emerging near infrared (NIR) absorbing materials at temperatures as low as -190 °C.
Researchers study the effect of thermal excitation on semiconducting sensor materials using a Linkam probe stage, the HFS600E-PB4. They explore the temperature sensing performance of these semiconductor nanofilms.
Researchers use a Linkam probe stage, the HFS600E-PB4 to study the relationship between vertical interfaces and dielectric properties in thin nanocomposite films.
Researchers use Linkam’s Liquid Crystal System to study nematic liquid crystals for augmented reality displays.
Researchers use Linkam’s Liquid Crystal System to study nematic liquid crystals.
Researchers use Linkam’s Liquid Crystal System to study the chirality of liquid crystals.
Researchers use the Linkam CAP500 with fused silica capillaries to study the formation of talc, observing the process using techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction.
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Wan, Ye, et al. "An Experimental Study of the Formation of Talc through CaMg (CO3) 2–SiO2–H2O Interaction at 100–200 C and Vapor-Saturation Pressures." Geofluids 2017 (2017).
Researchers use the Linkam CAP500 to study the thermodynamic behaviour of CO2 capture systems, usingfused silica capillaries under Raman spectroscopy.
Researchers use the Linkam MFS to image and measure the tensile properties of nanocomposite samples synthesised by coagulation spinning using carbon nanotubes.
Researchers use the Linkam CMS196 for imaging cryopreserved human prostate cancer cells with X-ray tomography. The CMS196 was used for cryo-fluorescence imaging of human PC3 prostate cancer cells, bringing insight into a new material used for a promising new non-invasive theraputive cancer treatment technique, Photo-Dynamic Therapy (PDT).
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Bolitho, E.M., Sanchez-Cano, C., Huang, H. et al. X-ray tomography of cryopreserved human prostate cancer cells: mitochondrial targeting by an organoiridium photosensitiser. J Biol Inorg Chem 25, 295–303 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-020-01761-8
Researchers use the Linkam CMS196 with correlative cryo-fluorescence and cryo-soft X-ray microscopy (cryo-CLXM) to observe endosomes and autophagosomes in mammalian cells.
Scientists at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK use the Linkam CMS196 for imaging mammalian cells with cryo-CLXM microscopy.
Researchers use the Linkam CMS196 as part of a Confocal Cryo Fluorescence Microscopy setup to image vitrified biological samples.
Schertel, Andreas, et al. "Imaging of Vitrified Biological Specimens by Confocal Cryo Fluorescence Microscopy and Cryo FIB/SEM Tomography." European Microscopy Congress 2016: Proceedings. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2016.
This study, using Linkam’s FDCS196 Freeze Drying System, shows how the freeze-drying process can be used to preserve meat and discusses the effect of system pressure on the freeze drying efficiency.
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Prickett, Richelle C., et al. "Effect of supercooling and cell volume on intracellular ice formation." Cryobiology 70.2 (2015): 156-163.
Linkam’s Optical Shear system CSS450 was used to observe the evolution of the microstructure of single walled carbon nanotube suspensions under shear.
Studying the effect of supercooling and cell volume on intracellular ice formation (IIF), using Linkam’s Freeze Drying system the FDCS196.
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Prickett, Richelle C., et al. "Effect of supercooling and cell volume on intracellular ice formation." Cryobiology 70.2 (2015): 156-163.
Researchers at the University of Ottowa, Canada used Linkam’s Freeze Drying system FDCS196 to cryopreserve red blood cells with slow cooling rates prior to storage at -80°C.
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Capicciotti, C.J. et al. Small Molecule Ice Recrystallization Inhibitors Enable Freezing of Human Red Blood Cells with Reduced Glycerol Concentrations. Sci. Rep. 5, 9692; DOI:10.1038/srep09692 (2015).
This article studies the impact of the binder material in industrial catalysts. Using the Linkam TS1500V to perform catalytic reactions at 250 and 300°C, the authors used operando spectrocopy and in situ confocal fluoroscence microscopy to show how different binder materials affect the final material composition.