Nanoparticles from the laser mill: Particular offers universal nanoparticles

Nov. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- Particular, a young nano-tech company from Hannover, Germany, crushes material down to the nano-scale using a laser ablation process. A “universal“ nanoparticle catalogue has been published on November 1: for the first time, a nanotechnology company offers any solid matter in the form of dispersed nanoparticles.

Customers can send their own materials (simple metals, ceramics, alloys) as foils, blocks or powders. Particular crushes these down to nanoparticles using laser pulses as a “laser mill“. Safely dispersed in a liquid, the product is shipped back to the customer. In addition, the introductory catalogue contains list prices of important metals for nanotechnology applications (e.g. gold, platinum).

Nanoparticles have been applied for a long time to make products more viscous, antibacterial, conductible or scratch-resistant – generally: more effective in various ways. Now, Particular's universal method makes it much easier to take advantage of nanotechnology, especially in high-tech fields.

According to Niko Bärsch, CEO of Particular, the company produces highly pure particles that have an average size around 50 nm and concentrations of up to 1 g/l that meet the high requirements of applications in medicine, biotechnology or energy conversion. Particular can also provide smaller nanoparticles: according to the catalogue, 10 nm silver is available at a calculative price of 1,70 EUR per milliliter.

The new nanoparticle catalogue is available on this web page:
http://particular.eu/catalogue.html

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Particular is a nanotech company from Hannover, Germany, and started their business as a nanomaterial supplier in July 2010. The start-up is the first company to employ laser ablation in liquids for the production of high-qualty nanoparticle dispersions.