NanoSight has announced that the Centre for Molecular Nanometrology at the University of Strathclyde has selected an LM-10 characterisation system to aid its research and development of biosensors.
The ability to visualise individual nanoparticles one at a time drew Dr Robert Stokes and Prof Duncan Graham to select the NanoSight NTA system.
The NanoSight provides an intuitive way of sensing particles and being able to work dynamically in biocompatible liquids to collect multiple single sets of particle information gives statistical credibility to the data.
This initial work is leading into developments for biosensors involving the controlled aggregation of functionalised nanomaterials in the presence of a specific target biomolecule.
The ability to monitor this process in solution using particle-by-particle measurements cannot be achieved with bulk characterisation techniques.
NanoSight's NTA approach has been shown to be suited to such research activities, with the ability to not only look at spherical particles, but also to characterise rod-like materials.
