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Application Spotlight
Seeing your Materials grow.
In Real Time
Our microscope provides a cutting-edge, label-free optical access that lets us watch nanoscale materials come to life in real time. Whether it’s precision polymer coatings, functional thin films, or advanced nanostructures, it helps to reveal the growth process particle by particle, rather than as a blurred average.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Traditional analysis methods (like electron microscopy or bulk light scattering) only offer snapshots or averaged data. They miss:
- Early-stage nucleation
- Variations between individual particles
- How reaction conditions influence uniformity and defects
With this microscope, you can directly see and measure how each particle grows, shapes itself, and responds to changes in its environment.
We detect tiny intensity changes of photons emerging from a nanoscale object (protein, virus, vesicle) and it’s interaction with the background. The contrast scales with particle effective mass, enabling direct detection of virtually any material.
Worth noting: The system also avoids the fading (photobleaching) and other limitations of conventional fluorescence microscopy.
- Individual nanofibers and platelets as they formed
- Measured growth rates and shapes in real time
- Quantified the effects of solvent, composition, and concentration on the final uniformity
- Industrial coatings – monitor film thickness and coverage as they form
- Colloid and nanoparticle synthesis – watch stability, aggregation, or controlled growth in situ
- Functional thin layers – study how surface chemistry and deposition conditions affect structure
- Biomaterials and composites – follow assembly pathways without dyes or labels
- Label-free – no dyes or tags to alter the process
- High temporal resolution – down to microseconds
- High spatial precision – nanometer-scale localization
- Long-term stability – follow slow processes without photobleaching