Dynamic light scattering unit for the characterisation of nanoparticles used in life sciences

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In the recent years, the term nanobiotechnology has gained a fulminant increasing attention from almost any industrial and scientific sectors. It refers to the use of very small materials that can be used to ameliorate and/or increase the properties of almost any kinds of products (aerospace, medicine, biology, textile, cosmetics, foods, etc.) . The basal element of that kind of 'small material' is called nanoparticles because of their dimension; at least one dimension as a diameter under 100 nm where nm is a unit of length in the metric system equal to one billionth of a metre. The present requested funds is to purchase an instrument that allows the characterization of these nanoparticles given information on their size and homogeneity, a major step before doing any kind of experiments.