Nanomaterials

Carbon Nanotubes | Ceramics | Quantum Dots | Metals

The Smart Grids product line offers the opportunity to enhance the visualization of both nanomaterials and assemblies of nanomaterials for a broad range of materials and applications. Surface chemistries are available to meet a wide variety of needs to simplify sample preparation, reduce sample preparation time, and improve image quality for transmission electron microscopy. In addition, the opportunity afforded to integate multi-technique analysis gives an unprecedented capability to understand structure-chemistry-function relationships at the nanoscale. For more information about specific materials see our links to: Carbon nanotubes/fullerenes, Metal oxides/ceramics, Quantum Dots/Semiconductor nanomaterials, and Metallic nanomaterials.

Applications of Smart Grids for Nanomaterials include:

  • Process development, optimization, and control
  • Quality assurance/control
  • Failure analysis
  • Materiel tracking/Security/authenticity
  • Metrology
  • Environmental monitoring/remediation

The use of TEM in materials science is ubiquitous for research and development. Recent trends that exploit the unique properties of nanomaterials extend across the full range of traditional materials classes including all forms of metals, polymers, and ceramics. No previous materials technology has offered the potential for such significant advances in technology development to benefit our society than the use of nanomaterials for applications in mechanical devices, electronics, magnetics, optics, medicine and life sciences, energy, and other anticipated and unanticipated technology developments. The applications of many of these materials requires precise control over not only the physical, chemical, and functional properties of the nanomaterials themselves, but also the integration and assembly of these materials into useful forms that can be incorporated into commercial products. A key to the successful deployment of any of these materials is the utilization of tools that can provide meaningful insght to the structure-chemistry-function relationships that allow for exploitation of their unique properties.

For more information on how Smart Grids can help your nanomaterials characterization needs, please contact us.