JPK Instruments, the supplier of specialist nanotechnology instruments, has opened its first offices in Japan together with the appointment of Nobuhiro Saito as country manager.
Germany-based JPK has identified a strongly emerging market for its nanoanalysis instruments, which are used in the area of bio-sciences.
In recent years, the firm's product range has grown from an AFM designed specifically for bio applications to include new instruments such as its NanoTracker optical tweezer platform.
A NanoTracker optical tweezers system was recently installed in the laboratory of Dr. Remus Dame at Leiden University.
Optical tweezers are a microscope-based technique that can be used to manipulate molecules or cells with high precision on the nanometer scale.
This approach has been used to study many mechanical aspects of biological systems, such as those involving motor proteins or DNA.
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