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Quantachrome Presents New Developments for Nanoparticle Creation

10 Nov 2010
Sarah Sarah
Marketing / Sales

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Quantachrome UK’s new range of Microfluidics products offer exclusive access to the latest technology for creating nanoparticles ideally suited to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The new products offer both top down (particle size reduction) and bottom up (using continuous crystallization, chemical reactions and process intensification) approaches to nanoparticle creation are available.

The range of Microfluidizers from Microfluidics includes the LV1 low volume, high shear fluid processor for achieving superior nanoemulsions, nanosuspensions, nanoencapsulation and cell disruption protein yield.

For bottom up nanoparticle creation, Microfluidics Reaction Technology (MRT) uses continuous crystallization, chemical reactions and process intensification to achieve particle sizes impossible with any other method.

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