COMPANY Management Team Scientific Advisors News Careers TECHNOLOGY nanoIR FAQ-nanoIR nano-TA HT-AFM PRODUCTS nanoIR nano-TA2 SThM VESTA Probes APPLICATIONS nanoscale IR Spectroscopy nanoscale Thermal Analysis SUPPORT Applications Lab Manual Technical Notes Released Software EVENTS Conferences and Tradeshows Webinars CONTACT Request Information Sales Contacts Location Company     Management Team     Scientific Advisory Board     News Technical contact: Roshan Shetty (+1) 805 455 5482 Editorial contact: Jezz Leckenby (+44) 1799 521881 Anasys Instruments announces prestigious award from MIT to co-founder, Professor William King (September 2006, Santa Barbara, CA) – Anasys Instruments is proud to announce that their scientific co-founder, Professor William King of Georgia Tech has been named as a member of MIT’s Technology Review 2006 TR35, for his work in the area of nanoscale thermal probes. The TR35, chosen by the editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of 35 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology is changing our world. Prof. King’s work in thermal characterization is expected to have profound implications in the characterization of materials at the nanoscale. Central to King’s groundbreaking work is his understanding of thermal processing gained through his doctoral work at Stanford, followed by a stint at IBM’s research facility in Zurich and his current position on the faculty at Georgia Tech. His breakthrough with the manufacture of a silicon-doped probe that could perform thermal measurements at a resolution of 50nm, led to the nano-TA product from Anasys Instruments. ”Bill’s probe breakthroughs have finally brought nanoscale thermal imaging and analysis to the AFM community whose requirements were previously unmet due to the lack of available probes” commented Kevin Kjoller, VP of Product Development and co-founder of Anasys. Besides enabling thermal analysis, this characterization capability is now the basis of a brand new imaging mode launched by Anasys called Heated Tip Atomic Force Microscopy (HT-AFM). This will enable the AFM user to apply all the modes they are familiar with (tapping; contact; force curves; force volume imaging etc) but use a heated tip instead to get thermal properties of the sample simultaneously with the routine information that these modes have always provided. Greg Meyers, Group Leader for AFM at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan, USA, and an HT-AFM pioneer had the following comments, “Bill’s breakthrough in probe design for HT-AFM removes key roadblocks to advancing scanning thermal microscopy of polymeric materials. The probes can be used for tapping mode AFM allowing the full benefits of phase imaging to find regions of interest. The nanoscale contact areas now confine local thermal measurements to where many significant morphologies occur in polymer blends, multilayers, and composites.” “HT-AFM offers sub-micron analysis and imaging capabilities for pharmaceutical systems that gives information on structure, crystallinity and polymorphism no other technique can provide” commented Professor Duncan Craig, Head of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia,UK, another leading HT-AFM user. The first products from Anasys included the nano-TA accessory (launched in early 2006) enabled AFM users to look at transition temperatures of individual phases on the 100 nm scale, improving the state of the art by 50x. This has revolutionary implications for the fields of polymers and pharmaceuticals. With leading researchers supporting the technology pioneered by Professor King, exciting developments are expected to continue to be released from Anasys Instruments in the coming months. See the latest news at www.anasysinstruments.com. Anasys Instruments develop, manufacture and provide analytical solutions on the nanoscale. Founded by a team of specialists in scientific instrumentation, Anasys’ technology team based in the USA and UK are funded to develop new technology and instrument solutions to make the concept of the laboratory on a tip a reality. Visit www.anasysinstruments.com to learn more about the Anasys philosophy, their products and services. Attached: Photograph: Professor William King, 2006 member of TR35, Technology Review’s list of top technology innovators under the age of 35. (for a digital copy, please email or call Jezz Leckenby at IMS) 3944 State Street, Suite 345 Santa Barbara CA 93105 Tel: (805) 455 5482 Fax: (805) 496 5459 www.anasysinstruments.com roshan@anasysinstruments.com IMS-Europe Limited 39 de Bohun Court Saffron Walden, CB10 2BA UK Tel: +44 (0)1799 521881 M: +44 (0)7843 012997 www.ims-europe.net jezz@ims-europe.net    © 2010 Anasys Instruments Corporation. All rights reserved.