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About Us Nano Instruments is the world leader in quantitative nanomechanical properties management. Nano Instruments serves scientists worldwide. Learn More Recent News 06.30.08 Agilent Technologies Acquires Nano Instruments Business of MTS Systems Corp. Read more in our news area. 11.27.06 MTS Nano Instruments announces its conformance to ISO 14577-1, 2 & 3 for instrumented indentation testing. 11.27.06 MTS Nano Instruments introduces the Nano Indenter G200 system. More News Events and Seminars September 4-5, 2008 European User Group meeting & Seminar, Madrid, Spain September 9-11, 2008 Nanomech 9, Huckelhoven, Germany SURFACE Headquarters   Applications We offer the applications area of our website as a means for you to obtain further information on how our instrumentation may be used. A Special Notice for our Customers We invite you to contact a member of our Application Engineering staff with any questions requiring application support. Simply email us at nanoapplications@mts.com and we will assign an Application Engineer to your question. Emailing us at this address will help ensure a timely response to your question. We welcome you to browse our publications index, which contains abstracts of journal articles that were produced through the use of our instrumentation. We also invite you to download application notes that describe experiments performed with our instrumentation and the subsequent results. Publications Index We are working hard to collate our recent publications for your perusal. Please check back with this section in the coming weeks. Application Notes Actuation & Sensing At its essence, instrumented indentation testing involves applying a known force to the surface of a test sample and measuring the resulting penetration into that... Download Actuation & Sensing     Data Acquisition & Control TestWorks®, the software platform for all NANO Indenter systems, offers real-time experimental control that is unparalleled in the industry. This application note briefly... Download Data Acquisition & Control     Dynamic Indentation Dynamic indentation is the process of superimposing a small sinusoidal oscillation on the primary indentation loading signal and analyzing the response by means of... Download Dynamic Indentation     MEMs Testing Last year, a customer approached us with a need to test a specific type of micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) structure. This application note briefly describes the... MEMs Testing     Measurement of Spider Silks Nano-scale characterization of biological materials continues to be a challenge in the fields of mechanics and material testing. One interesting example is the... Download Measurement of Spider Silks     Using Virtual Indenter Finite element analysis (FEA) is a very useful modeling tool for indentation experiments because the rather complicated interaction between indenter... Download Using Virtual Indenter Download addendum   Determine Fracture Toughness With the addition of NANO Vision™, a quantitative imaging package, the fracture toughness of thin films and small volumes can accurately be determined without... Download Determine Fracture Toughness     Nanoindentation of a Multiphase Composite In the case of multiphase composites, mechanical properties of each phase will affect the overall performance of the material, placing importance on the... Download Nanoindentation of a Multiphase Composite   Red Blood Cells MTS Nano Instruments has been investigating the properties of biological samples like wood cells, spider silk, human skin, and hair, for a long time... Download Red Blood Cells       Find a sales contact, worldwide.

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