Impetux: an innovative SME
Impetux has recently received the Innovative SME certification. This certification is awarded by the Spanish Economics and Competitiveness Ministry in recognition of the investment done in research.
It’s time to test new technology!
IMPETUX wants to start the new year offering new services.
A new free loan service is now available for anyone who wants to test our optical force measurement systems. If you have your own optical tweezers and you are working on some experiments where you need to measure the forces applied while manipulating, these are your instruments.
IMPETUX at CLUB21
Yesterday we participated in the RN4 radio program ‘Club 21’, where we talked about our vision, our mission and our values and gave an overview about the microscopic hands made of light that are the optical tweezers. You can hear the whole program here. (in catalan)
IMPETUX in Keys to Japan program:
Impetux has been chosen for the 2015 edition of the program: Keys to Japan, an European Commission-funded initiative.
Another important step for our internationalization strategy !
Another IMPETUX interview
IMPETUX interviewed at ESADECREAPOLIS webpage:
After participating in the IV edition of the EMPENTA program, organized by ACCIO and ESADECREAPOLIS, we were interviewed at ESADECREAPOLIS OPEN INNOVATION COMMUNITY.
You can read the complete interview in Spanish here.
A new interesting Optics Express article
Direct measurement of axial optical forces
Gregor Thalhammer, Lisa Obmascher, and Monika Ritsch-Marte
An Optics Express paper talking about the direct measurement of optical forces based on recording the change of light momentum: (the approach that overcomes many of the limitations of force measurements based on position measurements).
IMPETUX has been at Trends in Optical Micromanipulation III
Arnau has given the talk:
Force measurements with optical tweezers inside living cells
And Ferran has been presenting the poster:
Implementation of Force Measurements based on the Detection of Light Momentum Changes in Optical Tweezers
In addition, many attendants have had the opportunity to see our demo and solve all their doubts about our method. Thank you very much to all of them for their interest!
IMPETUX Team was interviewed by the newspaper “La Vanguardia”
Read the whole article (in catalan)
A Biophysical Journal article analyzing the light-momentum-change method (IMPETUX technology) has been published
The authors present a comparison between two different methods for measuring forces inside living cells and provide measurements of the stall force of kinesin in vivo using the momentum-based approach.
Arnau Farré has been awarded with the Justiniano Casas second prize for research in Optical Imaging
Arnau Farré, co-founder of IMPETUX OPTICS, has been awarded with the Justiniano Casas second prize for research in Optical Imaging, 4th edition, for his thesis, entitled “Momentum measurements of single-beam traps and quantitative holographic experiments: two sides of the same coin”. The award ceremony was hold on the 29 of August in Santiago de Compostela during the meeting of the 23rd Congress of the International Commission for Optics (ICO).
IMPETUX releases Deimus T-10i into the market!
The IMPETUX team is glad to announce the launch of the entry-level optical force measurement system: Deimus T-10i.
As a result of our continuous development activity we are proud to present our new T series system for Optical Tweezers
IMPETUX releases Lunam T-40i into the market!
SENSOCELL optical tweezers for cell & tissue mechanobiology