We are proud to announce that we have become the 5th member of the In-Situ Microscopy Alliance, a collective of innovative scientific companies with the aim of advancing electron microscopy.

What is the In-Situ Microscopy Alliance?

The In-Situ Microscopy Alliance (IMA) brings together a collective of experts in electron microscopy and related analytical methods, pooling their efforts towards cultivating an innovative and sustainable future. Within this alliance, we engage in collaborative exploration, pushing the boundaries to shape the specs of forthcoming analytical instruments crucial for advancing sustainable technology. To share knowledge effectively, IMA conducts regular online webinars dedicated to specific applications and hosts in-person workshops.

Who are the partners of the In-Situ Microscopy Alliance?

IMA is a collective of 5 different members, including Alemnis, Imina Technologies, NenoVision, point electronic and now DENSsolutions. All members of IMA produce analytical equipment complementary to electron microscopy. 

Why was IMA founded?

The creation of the In-situ Microscopy Alliance (IMA) aimed to facilitate the exchange of expertise and advanced technologies in in-situ microscopy and testing. Its primary goals include expediting innovation, encouraging the adoption of novel techniques and promoting the development of diverse applications spanning various fields.

As an alliance, we will:

• Create an ecosystem to enable leading industrial and academic players to explore, develop and promote in-situ characterization techniques, tools, and applications.
• Educate the research and engineering community about the capabilities of in-situ characterization techniques.
• Offer integrations of advanced analytical tools and applications for comprehensive in-situ characterization.

Our core mission is to connect industry and academia to advance in-situ microscopy characterization tools, solutions and services.

Meet IMA’s scientific board

In-situ Microscopy Alliance is supported by a scientific advisory board formed by leading researchers working on novel materials, semiconductors and energy solutions.

Dr. Umberto Celano

Associate Professor  |  Arizona State University

Watch one of IMA’s webinars

Learn more about the Alliance, its founding companies and discover the related work of Prof. Dr. Marc-Georg Willinger, a longstanding Climate user and renowned expert in electron microscopy, focusing his research on energy materials.

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We are thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to our website: the integration of the Bioz search engine – a cutting-edge tool empowering you to discover relevant publications with ease.

We recently integrated a state-of-the-art publications search tool, powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, across multiple pages on our website. Developed by Bioz, this innovative tool seamlessly scans through vast repositories of scientific papers, providing you with access to a wealth of information through sophisticated filtering capabilities.

Explore our new-and-improved Publications page

Previously, our Publications page allowed visitors to filter papers based solely on the type of DENSsolutions product used – namely Wildfire, Lightning, Climate or Stream. However, we understand that researchers appreciate more advanced search and filtering options to find tailored publications relevant to them. Therefore, we aimed to implement a tool on our website that would enable visitors to search for direct keywords applicable to their application or research focus. Moreover, a tool that would allow visitors to filter by the technique used, journal and even authors involved. This is precisely where Bioz comes in. You can now explore the tool on our updated Publications page. We would also like to highlight that with Bioz, you can make use of two unique features – the Charts and Maps feature. With Charts, you can visualize the popularity of all relevant techniques to in situ TEM, such as 4D-STEM, EELS and EDX. Moreover, the Maps feature allows you to see where all the authors of the papers are based.

Explore our updated product pages

Aside from the updates made to our Publications page, we’ve also revamped our product pages to allow for seamless searching of relevant publications as you acquaint yourself with each product. You can easily access these product pages through the links provided below. Note that as our latest solution Lightning Arctic was just launched some months ago, we plan to incorporate the Bioz platform directly into its dedicated webpage as publications begin to accumulate. 

About Bioz

Bioz, an AI software company based in Silicon Valley, uses AI, machine learning and natural language processing in order to extract experimentation data from scientific articles. Bioz AI was developed by AI experts from Microsoft and Google, and with Nobel Prize winners in chemistry. The Bioz search engine offers researchers billions of data-driven product, technique and protocol recommendations. By harnessing the power of AI, Bioz provides researchers with an unprecedented amount of summarized scientific experimentation knowledge right at their fingertips. They are used by over 2 million researchers from over 17,000 different universities and companies in 196 countries. Their search engine is fueled with 300,000 million different products, 50,000 suppliers and 3,000 research techniques. 

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We are excited to announce that DENSsolutions has joined forces with Funa Scientific, our new dedicated distributor in China.

In the pursuit to strengthen and grow our business operations in China, DENSsolutions has partnered with Funa Scientific Co. – an established player in the electron microscopy industry. With this partnership, we plan to improve the speed and quality of our service and application support for our valued users in China. Moreover, we hope to make beneficial resources more accessible to local existing and potential customers, including user trainings, application support, webinars and publications. We are confident that this partnership will be fruitful for all parties involved, and most importantly for our customers. In this article, we introduce Funa Scientific so you can learn more about their services and values, as well as what to expect in the near future.

About Funa Scientific

Founded in 2012, Funa Scientific is a key provider of desktop scanning electron microscopes for universities, enterprises and research institutes. Importantly, they also help top overseas high-tech instrument manufacturers build a complete technical support and after-sales service system in the Chinese market, assisting users in scientific research innovation and problem-solving. At the very heart of the company is their customer-centric approach, whereby the innovation of products and the progress of the company are inseparable from the support of customers. Funa Scientific has an expansive customer base, including users from the most well-known enterprises and institutions around the world, accounting for 80% of the Fortune Global 500 companies, like Sony, Johnson Matthey, NASA and Siemens.

Funa Scientific conducts business in various regions of China, and each region has numerous sales engineers, application engineers and after-sales engineers. The company has testing centres and after-sales service centres in major cities across China, including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.

Through long-term cooperation with key players in the microscopy industry to develop products such as the Thermo Fisher Scientific desktop scanning electron microscopes, VSParticle’s nano-research platform, Technoorg Linda’s Ar+ ion beam milling system and Forge Nano’s atomic layer deposition solutions, they have accumulated rich experience in the electron microscopy industry and nanoscale research technology. 

A bright future ahead

From this point onwards, Funa Scientific is the official distributor and business partner of DENssolutions in the Chinese market, fully responsible for the marketing, sales and service activities in China surrounding our solutions. Currently, Funa Scientific is working on setting up a dedicated local application research team and a Chinese website to be launched in the near future, which will feature the latest information about our advanced solutions and in situ microscopy news. Given Funa Scientific’s extensive expertise in the Chinese market, we are confident that this partnership will enable us to deliver our innovative solutions to a wider audience and better serve our customer base in China. We truly look forward to working closely with Funa Scientific to realize the bright future ahead.

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