The NanoSight NS300 uses the technology of Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). This technology utilizes the properties of both light scattering and Brownian motion in order to obtain the size distribution and concentration measurement of particles in liquid suspension.
How does NanoSight work?
NanoSight develops and produces instruments that visualize, characterize and measure small particles in suspension. NTA analyzes videos captured using the instrument, giving a particle size distribution and particle count based upon tracking of each particle's Brownian motion.
What is NanoSight NS300?
The Malvern NanoSight NS300 uses unique Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) technology to detect and visualise populations of nanoparticles (10nm to 2000nm) on a particle by particle basis. The technique uses the properties of both light scattering and Brownian motion to calculate particle size and concentration.
What is nanoparticle tracking analysis used for?
Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) is a method for visualizing and analyzing particles in liquids that relates the rate of Brownian motion to particle size.
Can nanoparticles be tracked?
Physics Today: Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent dye, and kills them with heat.
What is Nano tracking?
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis is a method that allows for the visualization and analysis of nanoparticles within a liquid which depends on the rate of Brownian motion related to particle size.
How do you measure a nanoparticle?
The most basic method to measure the size of nanoparticles is the size analysis from the picture image using the transmission electron microscope (TEM), which could also give the particle size distribution. For this analysis, preparation of the well-dispersed particles on the sample mount is the key issue.
What does NTA measure?
Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) is one of the few methods to visualize and measure nanoparticles in suspension in the range from 10 1000 nm based on the analysis of Brownian motion. Objects with two dimensions smaller than 100 nm are termed nanoparticles or ultrafine particles [1,2].