Nanotechnology and Malvern

‘Nano’ materials have a size or features on the scale of around 1nm to 100nm nanometers.

Nanoscale technology (or "nanotechnology") refers to a range of techniques used to manipulate matter at the scale of atoms and molecules. The word ‘Nano’ is a size scale, rather than a material, one nanometre being one billionth of a metre. The matter being manipulated can be any material organic or inorganic. This is different to other subjects such as ‘Biotechnology’ for example, which defines specifically that ‘bios’ or life is being manipulated.

The Malvern Zetasizer Nano is the most popular light scattering system for measuring the size of nanoparticles available. This is because it is the highest sensitivity, easiest to use system, that therefore has the ability to measure the size of particles at the scale of 1 nanometre and below, with minimal training.

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	What is a nanoparticle?
	Techniques for measuring the size of nanoparticles
	The Zetasizer Nano and nanoparticles
	Properties and current applications of Nanomaterials
	Research into nanoparticles