Nanosight has added temperature control to its nanoparticle characterisation systems.
As temperature directly affects diffusion speeds, the measurement of temperature has always been a key variable in analysis.
Temperature is routinely measured by Nanosight instruments and, when using aqueous systems, look-up tables embedded in the software will apply the appropriate viscosity.
Users of other solvents may input the viscosity manually.
The temperature-controlled stage operates from five degrees below ambient to 50C.
This may be retrofitted to the Nanosight LM20 instrument.
This stage meets two immediate needs.
For life-sciences users, it can operate at mammalian body temperatures.
For users working in solvents, it can maintain 25C, the standard temperature for readily-available viscosity data.
Accuracy is provided to a level of +/- 1C and is controlled directly from the system's software.
