Particle and Surface Sciences has released a super-sensitive nanoparticle characterisation system, the Nanosight LM10-HS.
The system uses EMCCD camera technology (electron multiplication charge- coupled device), which has improved the sensitivity of the standard Nanosight system by a factor of 100.
In practical terms, this means that the lower limit of detection for a particular particle type has been improved by a factor of two when compared to the standard LM10 system.
Nanosight head of applications, Andrew Malloy, says: 'The ability to detect very small, low refractive index viruses (in the region of 20nm) and provide absolute virus concentrations had previously only been possible through labour-intensive electron microscopy, whereas the Nanosight technique can provide information on virus concentration in less than a minute.'
