Testimonials
Discover how we’ve made a difference through the words of those who know us best—our valued customers and collaborators.
“I am very excited about new possibilities that can now be achieved with fluorescence guided OPTIR on the mIRage-LS for biomedical research. The new instrument offers a dream setup for microspectroscopic experiments.”
Oxana Klementieva, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden
“The capability of the mIRage system to provide submicron simultaneous IR+Raman is truly unique and offers significant advantages compared to other technologies. Moreover, Photothermal team have been amazing to work with!”
Tanya Hutter, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas
at Austin
“The mIRage obtains valuable information about the structure of multilayered plastic films and ageing of adhesives not available to conventional FTIR and Raman. O-PTIR is valuable for the development of high-quality plastic recyclables”
Madina Shamsuyeva, Ph.D
Leibnez University
Hannover, Germany.
Institute for Plastics and Recycling Technology
“Our first user experiment in the field of Alzheimer’s went so well that the researchers are submitting a manuscript to a high impact journal. The OPTIR is a disruptive technology.”
Ferenc Borondics, Ph.D
Principal Beamline Scientist
SOLEIL synchrotron
France
University of Tennesse
“With all of our equipment now set up and running, we’re excited to explore the instrument’s new features, including chemical mapping, polarized infrared, a heating/cooling stage, and computer-controlled data collection.
We are hoping to leverage those capabilities to advance our understanding of how aerosols interact with clouds and influence climate processes, particularly in the Southeastern U.S.”
Ziying (Nancy) Lei, Assistant Professor
University of Copenhagen
A new install for the mIRage sub-micron IR microscope to support the research group of Tue Hassenkam, Associate Professor at the Globe Institute, Københavns Universitet – University of Copenhagen.
Pictured with the system are group members, Magnus Ravn Harding, PhD Fellow, Assoc. Prof. Tue Hassenkam and Simon Holm Jacobsen Eiby Phd Fellow.
Prof. Hassenkam’s group are focusing on characterizing ancient biological remains to learn about the origin and early evolution of life. “We plan to use the system for analyzing rocks where the oldest remains of life, are trapped in micrometer sized inclusions” stated Tue Hassenkam.
Leipzig University
A new install for the mIRage-LS sub-micron IR microscope to support the research group of Professor Dr. Frank Cichos of the Leipzig University.
Pictured with the system are group members, Prof. Dr. Frank Cichos, Felix Patzschke, and Dr. Markus Anton.
“In addition to many fundamental studies, we plan to use the system to investigate the interaction of bacteria in biofilms, develop new dynamic chemical imaging methods, combine microfluidic manipulation, chemical imaging and machine learning, and discover fascinating details of protein aggregation.”
“mIRage is truly extraordinary. Within weeks of installation we finished measurements for our first paper. It should be called the ‘mIRacle‘! “
Agnieszka Banas, Ph.D
Senior Research Fellow
Singapore Synchrotron
Light Source (SSLS)
“The spectra quality… is so high that you can load it directly into a database and classify it”
Christoph Krafft, Ph.D
Leibniz Institute of
Photonic Technology
Jena, Germany
“OPTIR has the potential to become a fundamental tool in the analysis of cultural heritage “
Victoria Beltran, Ph.D
A-Sense Lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium
University of Vienna
A new install for the mIRage-LS sub-micron IR microscope to support the research group of Professor Arno Schintlmeister at the University of Vienna pictured here with the mIRage-LS system.
The mIRage-LS is equipped with simultaneous Raman and co-located fluorescence microscopy.
Professor Schintlmeister’s group performs collaborative research with colleagues from diverse fields, ranging from microbiology, biomedical sciences, geology, and materials sciences.
Yale University
A new install for the mIRage sub-micron IR microscope at Yale University to support the research group of Dr Caitlin Davis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Pictured here at the install is Sydney Shuster, Phd Student with the system fully installed and ready to make new discoveries in science of molecular spectroscopy.
The Davis lab uses experiments at multiple scales, from in vitro to single cell to whole organism, to study fundamental and applied problems at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and biology. A common theme of their research is the development of quantitative spectroscopic imaging techniques to investigate the relationship between function and dynamics in biological systems. This quantitative biophysical approach will be used to address kinetic questions that require characterization in the complex, heterogeneous environment of the cell including phase-separated bio-condensates, pre-mRNA splicing, and “quinary” interactions.
“mIRage overcomes the two biggest problems in FTIR spectroscopy, resolution and sample preparation”
Curtis Marcott, Ph.D
Senior Partner
Light Light Solutions
“mIRage, with its submicron simultaneous IR+Raman, is a great addition to the toolbox for the new materials characterization. It provided important insight into the unexpected mixing of seemingly immiscible bioplastic composites at the interface region not observed by previous techniques”
Isao Noda, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas
at Austin
“This is truly an exciting technology. The quality of the spectral data, at such high level of spatial resolution, is amazing.”
Professor John Reffner
John Jay College of
Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Pioneer in FTIR microspectroscopy
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