Nanotechnology offers significant potential benefits in advanced industrial applications, from electronics to medicine. However, scaling-up nanoparticle production from batch to continuous processes was slowed by time- consuming methods for measuring particle size. Faster methods would transform the pace of product development, but no suitable reference materials were available to calibrate some promising particle size measurement technologies.

Dolomite Microfluidics, a leading microfluidic solutions provider to the pharmaceutical industry, found the new instrument transformative to its nanoparticle formulation business. Its iterative ‘build, measure and learn cycle’ was revolutionised, from taking two weeks, down to just two hours. Such rapid formulation cycles helped it sell more services and encouraged clients to buy more equipment, to the extent that sales grew by 75% in one year, a large proportion attributable to nano-formulations and about half resulting from the new measurement capability.

Impact described at: Revolutionising nanoparticle formulation

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