NanoSight’s temperature control system distributed by Particle & Surface Sciences

NanoSight’s temperature control system
Particle & Surface Sciences distribute NanoSight Techology systems throughout Australia and New Zealand. NanoSight, the nanoparticle characterisation company, have added another temperature control system to their instrumentation systems.
As temperature directly affects diffusion speeds, the measurement of temperature plays a vital role in the NanoSight analysis. Temperature is routinely measured by NanoSight instruments and in case of aqueous systems, the look-up tables embedded in the software will apply the appropriate viscosity. Users of other solvents may input the viscosity manually.
NanoSight have introduced a temperature- controlled stage, which operates from five degrees below ambient to 50˚C. This may be retrofitted to the NanoSight LM20 instrument. This stage is suitable for life-science users as well as for users working with solvents. In case of the former, it can operate at mammalian body temperatures and for users working with solvents, it can maintain 25˚C, the standard temperature for readily-available viscosity data. Accuracy is provided to a level of +/- 1˚C and is controlled directly from the system’s software.
3-Oct-2008