A Linkam LTS420 stage was used to vitrify aqueous solutions of MgSO₄, in order to replicate the conditions of Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, to probe the potential stability of extra-terrestrial salt hydrates.
Double-twist cylinders in liquid crystalline cholesteric blue phases observed by transmission electron microscopy using a Linkam heating / freezing stage.
Researchers investigated controlling Gaussian and mean curvatures at microscale by sublimation and condensation of smectic liquid crystals using a Linkam heating/freezing stage.
