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

近年来，纳米生物技术一词几乎在所有工业和科学领域都得到了越来越多的关注。它是指使用非常小的材料，可以用来改善和/或增加几乎任何种类的产品（航空航天，医药，生物，纺织，化妆品，食品等）的性能。.这种“小材料”的基本元素被称为纳米颗粒，因为它们的尺寸;至少一个尺寸的直径小于100 nm，其中nm是公制长度单位，等于十亿分之一米。目前要求的资金是购买一种仪器，允许对这些纳米颗粒的大小和均匀性进行表征，这是进行任何实验之前的一个重要步骤。

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.