Anton Paar acquires product line for particle characterization

08-Jun-2017 - Anton Paar expands the product portfolio for particle characterization by the acquisition of the corresponding division from CILAS (Orléans, France). The PSA instruments are based on the light scattering principle or image analysis. They give information about the size distribution and shape of ...

Nano shake-up

UD researchers demonstrate that processing can affect size of nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery

16-Apr-2014 - Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge. Nanotechnology has unlocked new pathways for targeted drug delivery, including the use of nanocarriers, or capsules, that ...

Polymer nanoparticles used as drug carriers characterized using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis

13-Feb-2013 - NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used to help with the characterization of polymeric nanoparticles synthesized as drug carrier systems. This work is being carried out at Saarland University by Dr Christian Ruge and his colleagues. In the world of pharmaceutical ...

Malvern Instruments and Postnova Analytics co-operate to deliver combined solution for characterizing challenging particulate systems

20-Feb-2012 - Malvern Instruments and Postnova Analytics have announced that they are co-operating to deliver the combined FFF (Field-Flow Fractionation) and DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) solutions that today provide critical insight when characterizing a number of challenging particulate systems. Such ...

Tuning silica nanoparticles for cell specific biotargeting

15-Jun-2009 - Researchers from Abo Akademi University and the University of Turku in Finland have discovered that the stability of functionalised nanoparticles is crucially dependent on all functional groups present on the surface. Using the sensitive nanoscale particle sizing and zeta potential measurement ...

National Physical Laboratory to Evaluate NanoSight

17-Mar-2009 - The UK’s national metrology institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), is commencing a one-year evaluation program of NanoSight’s nanoparticle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). The program takes the form of a Joint Industry Project, funded in part by ...

DNA Technique Yields 3-D Crystalline Organization of Nanoparticles

First step toward three-dimensional catalytic, magnetic, and/or optical nanomaterials

05-Feb-2008 - In an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have for the first time used DNA to guide the creation of three-dimensional, ordered, crystalline structures of nanoparticles . The ability to engineer such ...

Continuing strong growth for Viscotek in Europe

26-Jun-2006 - Viscotek has announced strong growth in European sales in 2006 compared to the same period last year. Founded in 1985, Viscotek is the global leader in GPC / SEC detectors, software and systems for the characterisation of natural and synthetic polymers, proteins and nanoparticulate materials. ...