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The 2014 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit will feature over 6,000 presentations, including more than 3,300 oral presentations and nearly 3,000 poster presentations. Visit the MRS Technical Sessions page to see the program and schedule for each symposia. Come visit us our exhibit to learn more about the newest in-situ TEM products and to talk in-person with our team of scientists and engineers.

Hummingbird Scientific is thrilled to announce the launch of our new web store, which we’ve specially designed for users of our liquid, gas, and electrical biasing holder. Once your account has been created, you’ll be able to browse our wide array of microfabricated chips and accessories, or to order custom chips, with the click of a button. Optimized for an easy shopping experience, our web store is designed to get you the microfabricated technology you need, when you need it. Sign up for an account today,

With M&M 2014 just around the corner, we’re putting the finishing touches on our exhibits and tutorials. Stop by Booths 736 & 1130 to say hello, or come see our presentations and poster display (details below). We hope to see you there!

Spring is in the air, bringing the biannual Materials Research Society conference along with it.  All of us here at Hummingbird Scientific are looking forward to seeing our collaborators and customers there.  Stop by Booth #212 and say hello.

To meet the growing demand for SiN membrane window chips, we have recently opened a dedicated microfabrication division. Spearheaded by Dr. Joe Grogan, formerly from the University of Pennsylvania, the team will provide customers with high quality chips and microfabricated devices. While its primary purpose is to support users of our atmospheric gas holder and liquid flow holders, the microfabrication division will also provide custom device design services for our other products or for your unique applications. Check out our website’s microfabrication page for more information about the latest products or to let us know how we can help you with your experiments.

Surface functionalization for membrane window chips is an area of increasing importance for liquid and gas cell experiments, and we’re excited to support research in the area in partnership with Dune Sciences. The exclusive collaboration combines Hummingbird’s specialized liquid and gas cell chips with Dune Sciences’ full range of patented surface functionalization abilities, based on experience in surface chemistry and focus is something we appreciate and complements our strength in micro and nanofabrication capabilities. Making use of Dune’s expertise in surface chemistry and our own background in micro- and nanofabricaton, these functionalized liquid– and gas-cell chips extend the capabilities of the Hummingbird Scientific’s TEM holders. Read more about the collaboration here.

The annual Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting is just around the corner, and it looks like an exciting one for everyone working in in-situ electron microscopy. Hummingbird Scientific will be holding two tutorials at the meeting: “In-situ observations of gas-solid reactions using an atmospheric pressure gas flow specimen holder,” held Monday August 5th, and “Interpreting results from in-situ liquid TEM experiments, decoupling real phenomena from artifacts,” held Wednesday August 7th. Dr. Daan Hein Alsem will also be presenting a cross-correlative electron microscopy liquid-cell platform for biological samples. Stop by Booth #728 to speak to Dr. Alsem and our other scientists about your experiments, or to check out our full range of TEM holders.

In recent years, we’ve been expanding our business to meet the needs of new applications in in-situ electron microscopy. To match the increasing demand, we have recently moved into a larger facility featuring a TEM lab and extensive dedicated lab space for system engineering, manufacturing, and assembly. We’re looking forward to addressing your needs for in-situ TEM instrumentation from our new home base, and we invite you to contact us anytime about our standard products and custom systems.

It is shaping up to be a busy spring for all of us at Hummingbird Scientific. Keep an eye for our representatives at the following events!‍ May 20th – 22nd: 69th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Microscopy Society in Osaka, Japan.‍ May 22nd – 24th: 4th International Workshop on Remote Electron Microscopy and In-Situ Studies in Lisbon, Portugal.‍ June 11th – 14th: International Workshop on Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale in Xi’an, China.

From April 2–4, Hummingbird Scientific will be at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco for the Spring 2013 Materials Research Society Meeting. Come visit us at booth #307 to learn more about our newest in-situ TEM product or to talk in-person with our scientists and precision engineers.

The 2012 Microscopy Today Innovation Award recognized a multimodal electrochemical TEM probe developed in collaboration with Hummingbird Scientific and a team of researchers, inlcuding EMSL scientist Chongmin Wang.

Hummingbird Scientific will be at the 15th European Microscopy Congress in Manchester, United Kingdom, September 16th-21st. Come meet our scientists and engineers at Booth 506. Director of research at Hummingbird Scientific, Dr. Daan Hein Alsem, will be hosting a workshop titled “In-situ TEM materials characterization in liquid and gas,” going over some of the recent advances in real-time, in-situ TEM observations of materials in their native environments. Workshop time and location TBA.

Hummingbird will be attending the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 meeting in Phoenix, AZ from July 29 to August 2. Come visit us at booth 865 at the Exhibit and learn more about the newest in-situ TEM products. In addition, Hummingbird and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be presenting a poster on the latest developments in in-situ liquid and gas experiments titled, “In-Situ Liquid and Gas Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nano-scale Materials” during the “In-situ Experiments in Liquids and Gases Using Electron-Optical Instruments” Poster Session, Monday at 3:00 PM in the Exhibit Hall.

Hummingbird Scientific and Raymond Unocic received the Birks Award for collaborative work presented at the 2011 Microscopy and Microanalysis conference.

FLC recognized ERDC-CERL’s collaboration with Hummingbird Scientific on in situ liquid TEM holder technology, including the Liquid Flow Holder.

Hummingbird Scientific organized a gas-catalysis workshop November 3rd-5th, 2011, at Fernbrook in Olympia, WA. There were 14 attendees, including researchers from Purdue, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and several Hummingbird employees. We hope to hold more workshops of this sort in 2012 to encourage scientific collaboration between Hummingbird Scientific and our customers.

Hummingbird Scientific will be attending the annual Fall Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston, MA from November 28 – December 1. Come visit us in Booth 207 at the Exhibit to learn more about our newest in-situ TEM products and talk to our scientists and engineers.

Immediately following the 2011 FEMMS meeting Hummingbird Scientific will organize the 2nd Annual In- Situ TEM fluid holder workshop, which is aimed at users of in-situ TEM fluid holders. The workshop will run on the afternoon of September 23 and September 24. The location will be in or around the FEMMS conference hotel.

Hummingbird will have an exhibitor table at the 2011 National Center for Electron Microscopy and Molecular Foundry Users’ Meeting on October 5 and 6. Come meet Hummingbird staff and discuss your electron microscopy needs during this event.

Hummingbird will be on-site at the Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science 2011 meeting in Rohnert Park, CA from September 18-23.