Synthesis, modification and characterization of surfaces, hard and soft materials, hydrogels, vesicles and colloids
Choosing the appropriate material for a specific application is essential for creating successful, durable, and sustainable products. Complications often arise from material property interactions at the interface with the environment. These top few nanometers interfere with the surrounding and require chemical or physical adaption, for example coating, induced roughness, bio-active molecules, and various other modifications.
At the nanoLab, we are experts in finding these imperfections and providing solutions! We are strongly interested in not only applying treatments and coatings, but also understanding physical and chemical interactions. This allows us to precisely manipulate at the nanoscale and find solutions with optimized performance and low environmental impact.
We have longstanding experience with applied projects and understand the industrial needs and limitation of processes. Moreover, we are interested in understanding the details and work in close collaboration with other academic institutes, universities and university hospitals.
Stories
Research focus area
nanoSolutions
- Synthesis and development of nanobased products and processes
- Implementation of nanosized effects in products and processes
nanoAnalytics
- Customised methods to detect nanomaterials, particles and agglomerates
- Tailored high troughput applications for quality control
- Clear declaration of nanosized material
Facilities and equipment
Our well equipped laboratory enables us to do high quality research and gives us the flexibility needed to investigate materials used in all kinds of fields, for example dental health, pharmaceuticals, food, polymers, medical implants, optics, construction materials and more.
- Micro computed tomography
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- Ellipsometry
- Speed vac concentrator
- Confocal laser scanning microscopy
- Light microscopy
- Plasma generator
- Microtom Raman microscope
- Infrared spectrometry
- Contact Angle
- Tensiometer
- Quartz crystal microbalance
- Sputter coater
- Dynamic light scattering system