NANOCYTES®/Core-shell particles
- Development and synthesis of highly specific adsorber polymers
- Development of NANOCYTES® surfaces for DNA- and protein microarrays
- Surface coating of micro- and nanoparticles
- Design and production of selective composite membranes
- Organic and inorganic particle-based systems
- Formulation of drug matrix systems
- Development of biocompatible and biodegradable particles
- Loading and encapsulating of particles
- Production of nanoparticles with reactive active ester surface
- Bioconjugation of biomolecules on surfaces
- Biological analyses and analytics
- Carrying out feasibility studies
Development of nano- and micro-encapsulated active agents
- Synthesis of polymers and block co-polymers
- Characterization of polymers
- Bioconjugation
Drug loading of particles
- Formulation of particles via mini- and nano-spray dryer
- High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- Titration microcalorimetry
- Characterization of carbon-based nanomaterials at nearly all stages of a process with regard to:
- Structure/morphology
- Atomic composition
- Conductivity
- Functionalization
- Wettability
- Grafting properties
- Toxicity/biocompatibility
- Particle characterization
Printing processes
- Formulation of water- or solvent-based inkjet inks
- Biofunctional inks
- Inks containing nano- or microparticles
- UV-crosslinkable inks
- Conductive and printed circuit board inks
- Printing of high-resolution structures
Carbon-based nanomaterials
- Manufacturing of bucky paper and CNT-based membranes
- Development of CNT polymer composites
- Functionalization or coating of such materials by means of plasma technology, wet chemistry, or grafting techniques for
- Modified wettability/solubility
- Polymer composite development
- Testing of toxicity and biocompatibility using our cell test systems
Biological and polymer analytics
- MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometer (Bruker Ultraflex II)
- Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Simultaneous thermoanalysis (STA)
- Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) with 4 detectors
Particle analysis
- Microelectrophoresis (zeta potential)
- Dynamic light scattering (SLS, mastersizer, measuring range 0.1 nm to 10 μm)
- Static light scattering (SLS, mastersizer, measuring range 50 nm to 2 mm)
- Miniplants with inline analytics
Surface characteristics and morphology
- Ellipsometry
- Microscopy, scanning electron microscope (REM), atomic force microscopy (AFM)
- Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA)
- Mini- and nano-spray dryer for the formulation of particles
- High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- Titration microcalorimetry
Formulations
- Dynamic light scattering
- Ellipsometry
- MALDI TOF mass spectrometry
- Microcalorimetry
- Digital imaging
- Laboratory synthesis
Carbon-based materials
- Plasma reactors for CNT/CNF treatment
- Processing of bucky paper/CNT
- more info
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB