Celebrating its’ tenth yr of their U.S. Instructional Giveaway, Minus Ok Know-how has to-date granted over $100,000 of its superior performing patented Unfavorable-Stiffness low-frequency passive mechanical vibration isolators to high schools and universities within the USA.
This yr Minus Ok congratulates the next winners for the 2024/2025 giveaway:
College of North Texas – Physics Division
The vibration isolator will likely be used to stabilize their AFM to attain excessive decision photographs of grain sizes in skinny movies. They are going to modify these movies via totally different thermal processes.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Know-how – Physics and Optical Engineering Division
The vibration isolator will likely be used for experiments in ultra-sensitive optical measurements and characterization of magneto-optic nanoparticles for most cancers hyperthermia remedy.
Wellesley School – Chemistry Division
The isolator will for analysis research of pathological modifications to excitable cells utilizing fluorescent reporters. They are going to use microinjection and electrophysiology on intact worms in vivo and tradition cells utilizing their Nikon Ti-U microscope which at the moment has an excessive amount of vibration motion.
Cornell College – Utilized and Engineering Physics Division
The isolator will used fabricating novel two-dimensional (2D) materials heterostructures by combining atomically skinny 2D supplies, similar to graphene, hBN, transition metallic dichalcogenides, to discover new digital and quantum phenomena inside an MBraun glovebox underneath an inert argon ambiance.
Rutgers College – Physics Division
The isolator will likely be for a scalable atomic gravimeter to measure absolutely the gravity, the vertical gravity gradient, and the third-order vertical spinoff by dropping three spatially separated cold-atom cloud and forming atom interferometry, to a retroreflector underneath a vacuum chamber.
Sam Houston State College – Organic Sciences
The isolator will help in fluorescent and section distinction imaging utilizing an ECHO Revolve upright/inverted microscope, permitting publication-quality fluorescence, section, and darkfield imaging to graduate and undergraduates in analysis or doing live-cell video.
“Giving again to academia at all times offers us nice feeling.”, says Minus Ok’s President Steve Varma, “When speaking to college students at our sales space on the totally different commerce exhibits, there may be at all times an excellent curiosity in getting isolation techniques for his or her colleges to assist with their experiments. We’re pleased with having the ability to present techniques for ten years.”
Minus Ok® Know-how, Inc. was based in 1993 to develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art vibration isolation merchandise based mostly on the corporate’s patented negative-stiffness-mechanism know-how. Minus Ok merchandise are utilized in a broad spectrum of functions together with nanotechnology, organic and neuro sciences, semiconductors, supplies analysis, quantum analysis, zero-g simulation of spacecraft, and high-end audio. The corporate is an OEM provider to main manufactures of scanning probe microscopes, micro-hardness testers and different vibration-sensitive devices and tools. Minus Ok clients embrace personal firms and greater than 300 main universities and authorities laboratories in 52 international locations.
