About YOKOGUSHI 2.0

The JEOL Group has evolved the "YOKOGUSHI" strategy that it has promoted since 2013 into "YOKOGUSHI 2.0" under "Evolving Growth 2.0 - A New Horizon -" and will work to strengthen its foundation for providing solutions by field by creating added value through innovation and expansion in three axes.
The first axis is "Instruments/functions." By combining finished products organically and crosssectionally through YOKOGUSHI, the JEOL Group aims to develop next-generation solutions and applications that no one has yet seen.
The second axis is "Applications/services." In addition to increasing value through the acquisition of diversified data through the integration of hardware and software, the JEOL Group is stepping into the development of applications that are responsible for the analysis of such data, as well as efforts to link the results of such analysis to solutions to issues that customers face.
The third axis is "Co-creation." While realizing "co-creation" within the JEOL Group, we are working to provide optimal solutions to customers at the fastest possible speed in an era of rapid change by bringing the strengths of not only ourselves but also universities, research institutes, and companies.
"YOKOGUSHI 2.0" aims to maximize the value of solutions based on these three axes.

Creating solutions beyond customer's imagination, fulfilling customer's needs through YOKOGUSHI 2.0

Creating solutions beyond customer's imagination, fulfilling customer's needs through YOKOGUSHI 2.0

YOKOGUSHI Applications

Open Innovation

Expectations for science and technology to solve complex and complicated social issues such as environmental problems, resource depletion, and new infectious diseases are increasing. On the other hand, the deadlines for resolution of these social issues have been and are being set, such as "Declaration of Carbon Neutrality by 2050", requiring us to achieve them in a speedy manner.
To resolve these social issues with speed, open innovation is indispensable that brings together wisdoms beyond the barriers of fields and organizations. JEOL Group is promoting open innovation for this purpose.
JEOL Group has the strength of its technologies and global network cultivated in the advanced measurement and analysis technologies such as electron microscopes, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, and mass spectrometers. With this as our core, we will form an open platform with universities and companies, and aim to create innovation through co-creation with the platform users.

Open Innovation Partnerships / Examples

U.S.A

University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
In 2012, the center installed the JEM-ARM200F aberration-corrected atomic-resolution transmission electron microscope. Researchers using the electron microscope facility have access to a variety of analytical techniques, including Z-contrast imaging and electron energy-loss spectroscopy for advanced materials investigation. Both composite materials and biological experiments can be observed in situ during dynamic thermal studies using heated sample stages.
Principle Investigator Dr. Robert Klie's focus is on defects and interfaces in superconducting oxides or borides, semiconducting oxide hetero-structures, and heterogeneous catalyst systems. Additional university researchers study nanotubes and hollow nanofibers, semiconductor nanoparticles embedded in organic films, geochemical processes at the interface of minerals and water, nucleation and growth of mineral nanoparticles, and elements used as catalysts.

Facilities

The University of Illinois at Chicago is an epicenter for atomic resolution research with the installation of the aberration-corrected S/TEM, the ARM200F with cold field emission gun. The ability to see atomic structures at this resolution will enhance energy-related research at the University. The ARM200F is installed in an environmentally-controlled room with a hydro radiant panel system.

Products

  • JEM-ARM200CF TEM/STEM with cold field emission gun, CEOS probe aberration corrector, Gatan digital cameras, Oxford Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (XEDS) and Gatan Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS)
  • JEM-3010 with Gatan digital cameras and Thermo-Noran XEDS
  • JSM-6320F high resolution Field Emission SEM with Thermo-Noran XEDS

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Yale University
Yale's Department of Geology & Geophysics offers graduate students and post-doctorates the opportunity to study and conduct research in a wide range of cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary areas. The Department Chair, Professor Jay Ague, is also Curator-in-Charge of Mineralogy, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. His research area is the study of the Earth's crust and upper mantle, with a focus on the metamorphic and igneous rocks comprising the deep roots of mountain belts. His group investigates thermobarometry; heat and mass transport by fluid flow through porous and fractured rock; timescales of orogenic events; fluids and arc volcanism; the impact of subsurface fluids on rock rheology and earthquake hazards; geohydrology; the genesis of economic mineral deposits; processes that release and transport greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in Earth's crust; and carbon sequestration.

Products

  • JEOL JXA-8530F "Hyperprobe" EPMA

Facilities

The Yale University microprobe is used for microscale to nanoscale assessment of geological specimens. The JEOL electron probe microanalyzer/scanning electron microscope (EPMA/SEM) features state-of-the-art imaging, analytical, and computer-control capabilities, five wavelength-dispersive spectrometers (WDS) and a light-element-capable energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS). Hardware and software allow automated operation and data collection, and software accommodates advanced image processing and feature analysis.
The McCrone Group, Inc.
Founded in 1956 and located in Westmont, Illinois, The McCrone Group, Inc. is internationally recognized as a world leader in microscopy, microanalysis, materials characterization, and materials problem solving.
The McCrone Group is comprised of three business units. 
McCrone Associates, Inc. is focused on solving the most difficult materials and particle identification problems along with the day-to-day analysis needs of clinical laboratories, scientific researchers, business organizations, and government agencies. McCrone Associates’ scientists consult directly with clients and use the most advanced microscopy techniques and instrumentation to solve their problems. Dr. Kent Rhodes, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Technical Director. Kent joined the organization in 1990 as a research scientist specializing in surface and microanalysis. He currently supervises the technical staff of McCrone Associates and is an instructor for the SEM course at Hooke College.
Hooke College of Applied Sciences, LLC provides education and training to scientists and microscopists. Hooke College offers specialized short-courses and customized training in microscopy techniques and materials analysis. Topics covered include sample preparation, light and electron microscopy, and spectroscopy. Charles Zona, Dean of Hooke College, oversees the operations and development of new training initiatives.

Facilities

McCrone Microscopes & Accessories, LLC provides technical guidance and instrumentation to equip laboratories around the world. McCrone Microscopes is a dealer for the JEOL Neoscope Benchtop SEM and electron microscopy supplies. The technical sales representatives at McCrone Microscopes are trusted advisors to microscopists.

Products

  • JXA-8200
  • JSM-6490LV
  • JSM-6480LV
  • JSM-7500F
  • JSM-7600F
  • JEM-3010

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BCM - NCMI is under the direction of Dr. Wah Chiu, renowned worldwide for his contributions to the field of biological cryo-electron microscopy and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. NCMI has pioneered high throughput methods for imaging and solving 3-dimensional structures of macromolecular machines at unprecedented resolutions. The group has determined cryo-EM structures of the acrosomal bundle, ion channel, viruses, chaperonins, membranes, oligomeric proteins and cytoskeletal protein complexes. They have traced the C-α backbone of protein components in several large molecular nanomachines using single particle cryo-EM and image processing without the aid of crystallography. Structural investigations have produced not only novel structural informatics but also insightful functional mechanisms on protein folding and virus infection respectively.
In recent publications, the team has looked beyond the icosahedral protein shell of the episilon15 bacteriophage that infects Salmonella bacteria. They have described different molecular parts involved in binding to host cells, injecting DNA into the cell and packaging it during the virus formation. Additionally, recent work has included building the first atomic model directly from a single particle cryo-EM density map of Mm-cpn, a Group II chaperonin, or mediator of cellular protein folding in eukaryotes and archaea.

Facilities

The NCMI engages in collaborative and service projects with a variety of groups around the world. Structures studied by electron microscope and image processing range from molecules around 47 kDa to cellular structures well over several MDa in size. Four high-resolution electron cryo-microscopes make up the imaging core of the NCMI whereas several clusters provide the computational resources.

Products

  • Phase Plate technology on the JEM-2200FS outfitted with a Gatan 4k camera
  • JEM-2100-LaB6 outfitted with a Gatan 4k CCD camera
  • JEM-2010F-FasTEM equipped with a Gatan 4k and a DirectElectron 12 Mpix DDD camera
  • JEM-3200FSC outfitted with a Gatan 10k camera and a 12 Mpix DirectElectron DDD camera

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Japan

In June 2005, The Business-Academia Cooperation Office was co-founded by the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and Nihon Denshi (JEOL). Its aim is to promote and provide education, both in Japan and abroad, on the advanced technology related to micro scale metrology, particularly the electron microscope.
Cooperation between business and academia is vital for promoting the awareness and use of advanced micro-measurement technology today In this collaboration, The University of Tokyo provides its own instruments, including the ultra high voltage electron microscope, and a part of its premises, while Nihon Denshi (JEOL) provides expertise and technical assistance.
The School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo has a long history of accumulating research results and know-how in education and research based on state-of-the-art microscopes and technologies. On the other hand, Nihon Denshi (JEOL) boasts the most advanced applied electron microscope technologies and professional support. By combining these specialties, we are aiming to create a new type of Business-Academia Cooperation Office, with a focus on inter-disciplinary research and education, particularly in nano technology, collaboration between industry and academia, the promotion of scientific technology, and the stimulation of activities which contribute to society locally and globally.
On the occasion of the commencement of the 3rd term (until March 2014) on April 2011, we reaffirm our determination to seek new function and performance, and to strive for the further advancement and development of our mission.

Facilities

The activities of The Business-Academia Cooperation Office are as follows:
  • Joint provision of facilities and technologies
    Providing state-of-the-art facilities and technologies related to electron microscopes.
  • Hosting seminars and lectures
    Hosting seminars and lectures regarding the most advanced electron microscopes and their technologies. (Not only in Japan, but also overseas, particularly in Asia)
  • Joint research
  • Support of sample analysis and collaborative research

Products

  • JEM-ARM1250
  • JEM-4010
  • JEM-2010F+EDS
  • EM-09100(IS)
  • JSM-7001F+CL+EDS
  • JSM-6510LA+EDS
  • JCM-5000
  • SM-09020(CPII)
RIKEN
The RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center was established in November 2014 to create an organization that combines the strengths of both RIKEN, which has a track record of developing drug discovery and medical technologies based on a dynamic understanding of life phenomena from the atomic to the individual level, and JEOL, which boasts world’s top-level technology for developing and manufacturing scientific instruments, and to create unique Japanese technologies that will enable Japan to compete globally in the field of analytical and diagnostic instruments.
Fig. RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center – Unit Transition
Fig. RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center – Unit Transition

Organization

Fig. RIKEN－JEOL Collaboration Center
Fig. RIKEN－JEOL Collaboration Center

Links

RIKEN－JEOL Collaboration Center
Advanced Electron Microscope Development Unit
Unit Leader: Koji Yonekura (Ph.D.)
Nano-crystallography unit
Unit Leader: Yusuke Nishiyama (Ph.D.)
Multi-Modal Microstructure Analysis Unit
Unit Leader: Yosky Kataoka (M.D., Ph.D.)

Products

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)

  • CRYO ARM™ 300 (JEM-Z300FSC) Field Emission Cryo-Electron Microscope
  • JEM-2100 Electron Microscope ** This product is discontinued. **

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)

  • JNM-ECZ900
  • JNM-ECZ600

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

  • JSM-IT800SHL Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
Osaka University
This collaborative research institute was jointly established by Osaka University and JEOL Ltd. in April 2018, by integrating the endowed research division of "Multi-scale structural biology (JEOL) " in Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University established in June 2016 and "Mass Spectrometry Open Innovation Joint Research Seminar" of Graduate School of Science, Osaka University established in April 2017. The purpose of this institute is becoming a center of innovation for pioneering next generation life science research by realizing innovative high performance of cryo electron microscope, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, and mass spectrometer, and achieving easy, advanced, speedy measurement and analysis methods.
In recent years, there has been a sense of stagnation in development of scientific instruments and related technologies in Japan and it is becoming difficult to develop original instruments that can support the world’s most advanced science and instruments that are competitive in the world in Japan. Biomolecular structural analysis and analysis technology are the fundamental technologies for medical and life science fields and the core of innovations such as drug discovery research. We believe that the creation of innovation in this field is an urgent and important issue for Japan. This collaborative research institute aims to enable the development of globally competitive scientific measuring instruments and the related research and development by uniting the superiority of Osaka University in fundamental research with the technological development capability of JEOL Ltd. In addition, we are considering becoming the core of open innovation, promoting collaboration with related companies that have elemental technologies and fusion with other analytical technologies. We will also train researchers who will lead the development of future technologies. Inheriting the fundamental technologies that are no longer viable as research at universities is another mission of us.
Figure. Transition of Osaka University-JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories
Figure. Transition of Osaka University-JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories

Organization Chart

Figure. Organization Chart of Osaka University-JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories
Figure. Organization Chart of Osaka University-JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories

Link

Osaka University JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories

Products

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)

  • JEM-1011 (discontinued)
  • JEM-3200FS Field Emission Energy Filter Electron Microscope (discontinued)
  • CRYO ARM™ 200 (JEM-Z200FSC) Field Emission Cryo-Electron Microscope

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)

  • 700MHz Cryo Magic Angle Spinning DNP-NMR
  • 700MHz Cryo Magic Angle Spinning DNP-NMR Probe

Mass Spectrometers (MS)

  • JMS-HX110/HX110 (discontinued)
  • JMS-Q1000GC (discontinued)
  • Gas Analysis: JMS-MT3010HRGA INFITOF Multi-Turn Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
  • MALDI: JMS-S3000 SpiralTOF™-plus Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

Europe

JEOL has been supplying electron microscopes and other instruments to the University of Oxford (ranked no. 3 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13) for nearly 50 years. JEOL instruments can be found in departments across the University, in the division of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences and the division of Medical Sciences.
The Department of Materials, in particular, has long been a focus for work on the theory and practise of electron microscopy. In 1966, Prof. Sir Peter Hirsch, who co-authored along with Professors Howie, Whelan, Pashley and Nicholson, the seminal text Electron microscopy of thin crystals, moved to the Department where he remains as an active Emeritus Professor following his retirement in 1992. His tenure as head of Department, saw the Department of Materials develop into its current status as a world-renowned centre for electron microscopy. Today, the Department houses a large number of electron microscopes, probably representing the largest concentration of electron microscopes in the UK. The majority of these are JEOL instruments.
With the growth of the Department’s interest in electron microscopy, formal ties with JEOL became closer and developed into extensive research collaborations, in which the Department worked with JEOL on the design and development of new electron microscope technology and instrumentation. This collaboration was led following Sir Peter’s retirement by successively, Dr John Hutchison, Professor David Cockayne and now by Professor Angus Kirkland.

Facilities

Some of JEOL’s most advanced EM instruments have been housed within the Department of Materials, including the current JEM-2200FS MCO, a double Cs corrected TEM with in-column energy filter and unique monochromated electron source.
JEOL and the Department of Materials continue to collaborate on a number of scientific projects, including a new Centre for Electron Microscopy at the Diamond Synchrotron. JEOL and Oxford look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship for many years to come.

Products

  • JEM-2200FS MCO, a double Cs corrected TEM with in-column energy filter and unique monochromated electron source

Asia

In 2014, Indian Institute of Science, which is one of the highest scientific graduate schools in India and JEOL have the agreement of academic collaboration project at their NMR Research Centre. We established “IISc-JEOL NMR Collaboration Office” which jointly has collaboration research with all Indian cutting edge researchers to enhance NMR technology in India. It’s one of the best NMR research organizations in Asian countries.

Facilities

Activities of IISc-JEOL NMR Collaboration Office are:
  • Contributing technology upgrade of all related personnel in NMR.
  • Supporting IISc researchers from outside of IISc to use ECX400II and ECX500II.
  • Mutual collaboration in academic conferences organized by IISc.

Products

  • JNM-ECX400II
  • JNM-ECX500II
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