nanoLab
Contact person NanoLab: Dr. Sina Saxer & Dr. Lucy Kind
Innovative synthesis, modification & 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. While the material properties are mostly optimal, complications often arise from its interactions at the interface with the environment. These top few nanometers interfere with the surrounding and require chemical or physical adaption, as for example a coating, induced roughness, bio-active molecules, and various other modifications.
We, at the nanoLab are experts in finding these imperfections and providing solutions! We are strongly interested to not only apply treatments, coatings etc. but also understand the physical and chemical interactions. This allows us to precisely manipulate at the nanoscale and thus find solutions with optimized performance and low environmental impact. We have a 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, University and University hospitals.
Our outstanding equipped laboratory enable us to do high quality research and gives us the flexibility needed to investigate materials of all sorts of fields, for example dental health, pharmaceuticals, food, polymers, medical implants, optics, construction materials and more. Visit our website to access a compilation of equipment, research details, and project examples.
Projects & News
Sustainability in the laboratories at the FHNW School of Life Sciences
The study on Sustainability in HLS Laboratory Operations aims to reduce energy and resource use in the labs significantly, via measures that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday lab work.
The Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein vists the nanoLab
Impression of the Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visiting the nanoLab.On May 16th 2024, a class from the Regionales Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visited us in the nanoLab. After a short introduction about the nanoLab, the students were allowed to actively experience the world of nanometers and produce red gold nanoparticles in the laboratory, observe…
New publication in the nanoLab research group
Our findings of the SiNP Food project, a Argovia Project funded by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute are now published in the open access Journal ACS Omega with the title “High-Throughput Silica Nanoparticle Detection for Quality Control of Complex Early Life Nutrition Food Matrices” (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c09459)Publication ACS Omega…