Microscopy building day 7-9
First images and final checks

We finally have a working microscope 🔬

After installing the camera, we tackled hardware software communications using @micro-manager.bsky.social

Then we performed usual checks:
1) fluorescent marker
2) scale bar
3) bead solution (PSF)

How we analyze porous network @rochalab.bsky.social 🔬🧪

1) Adaptive thresholding
2)Distance map calculation
3)Watershed transformation
4)Quantification
5)3D rendering

Code : github.com/BorisLouis/S...

Paper: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#Microscopy #Optics #SciComm #ImageProcessing

🧙‍♂️𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🔬 🧪

Meet our latest creation @hofkenslab.bsky.social and @rochalab.bsky.social labs:

A fully custom upright microscope built entirely from scratch, with no microscope body and no commercial frame.

#Optics #SciComm #Microscopy

🔧 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 – 𝐃𝐚𝐲 #𝟐 🔬🧪

✅ First, we used the reference laser to project a perfect vertical line through the center of the objective holder. We marked a target on the ceiling for future alignments, an easy trick to save time later

#Optics #Microscopy #SciComm

🔬 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 – 𝐃𝐚𝐲 #𝟏 🔬
Exciting times in @rochalab.bsky.social and @hofkenslab.bsky.social Lab !🧪We're restarting to build microscopes, and I decided to guide two PhD students (Steven Huysecom and Toon Van Roy) through the process.
#Microscopy #optics #SciComm #sts

First invited talk... and I missed my flight 😅✈️
What a wild 72h from 🇧🇪 to 🇸🇬!

Grateful to the organizers who reshuffled things so I could still speak — and even more shocked (and honored!) to get a prize for young speakers. 🔬🧪

Academia is a rollercoaster😅
Singapore, you were stunning 🌿💚

Amazing week at Göttingen University in Prof. @joergenderlein.bsky.social Lab with Toon & @sudiptaseth.bsky.social !

🔬 We performed high-res imaging of optoelectronic materials & collected 200GB+ of data!

Thanks to Oleksii Nevskyi & @nradmacher.bsky.social for their help we’ll be back! 🚀

🔬Transforming local intensity fluctuations in solar cells into information with CLIM🔬

Borrowing principles of AI and super-resolution optical microscopy, 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌 provide structural and functional information in photo-active materials.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/adma...

🧐 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤?

The Correlation Clustering Imaging (CLIM) method developed with @sudiptaseth.bsky.social @hofkenslab.bsky.social, Scheblykin lab, had two milestones last week:
1) Science and innovation award (KU leuven)
2) Accepted in Advanced materials
You can read about it here, meanwhile: doi.org/10.26434/che...

🔬 Nanoparticles flocking like birds!
Core-shell nanoparticles (200 nm gold, 100 nm silica) swarm under laser irradiation, mimicking flocking birds! 🐦 Rotate them by changing light polarization.

Learn more in our latest paper
@acspublications.bsky.social : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...