[February 04, 2014]

Optofluidics' Next Gen Nano-analyzer Installed at Three Top Universities

Optofluidics announces that its flagship product, the NanoTweezer, is now located at Cornell University's Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), State University of New York Binghamton's Analytical and Diagnostics Laboratory (ADL) and an upcoming install at the University of California at Davis Center for Biophotonics (CBST) on February 5^th of 2014.

The NanoTweezer is a plug-and-play attachment to standard microscopes that uses the latest in nanotechnology to capture, manipulate, and analyze individual nanoscale objects in high numbers including proteins aggregates, viruses, bacteria, and inorganic nanoparticles. Researchers in these institutions are interested in using the technology to measure the most important properties of micro and nanoparticles including size, composition, shape and coating qualiy.

"We are truly excited to have the NanoTweezer here at Cornell's NanoBioTechnology Center," said Prof. Michal Lipson. "We hope to use it to extract crucial data related to our optical nano-manipulation experiments." Prof. Lipson is one of several PIs at Cornell that will use the NanoTweezer which also includes Prof. Peng Chen from Chemistry, and Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis from Materials Science, and Prof. David Erickson from Mechanical Engineering amongst others.

At the Binghamton site, users are impressed with the NanoTweezer system's capabilities. "I am very excited to have the NanoTweezer at the ADL," said Prof. Amber Doiron from SUNY Binghamton "My student will be using it to characterize the coating quality of our iron oxide nanoparticles for medical imaging applications."

About Optofluidics, Inc.

Optofluidics, Inc. is a scientific equipment manufacturer commercializing novel particle analysis and manipulation technologies. Optofluidics was named Philadelphia Life Science Startup of 2012 by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and is a finalist for this year's SPIE PRISM award. Their flagship product, the NanoTweezer, uses the latest in nanophotonics and nanotechnology to enable groundbreaking nanoparticle analysis. For more information please visit www.opfluid.com.

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