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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 375 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.205

Top down bottom up: Mass appeal

Back in his assistant professor days in the 1990s, Mitsutoshi Setou was looking for a company to fund and commercialize his ideas. Setou, who is now a full professor at the Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences in Tokyo, wanted to exploit nanoparticles to improve the resolution of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) — an analytical technique that is used to visualize the spatial distribution of compounds.