In a move to support graduate and undergraduate chemistry studies, Malvern Instruments has donated a Zetasizer Nano particle characterisation system to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
It will be used predominantly in the Advanced Materials course, which Is led by Professors David Avnir and Shlomo Magdassi and focuses on preparation and characterisation of materials such as polymeric nanoparticles, metal nanoparticles, photolithography, micelles, emulsions and sol-gel processes.
Avnir and Magdassi were presented with the Zetasizer Nano by Stuart Wakefield, Malvern's distributor sales manager at a ceremony earlier this year. Their research interests include sol-gel processes, silica particles, formation of nanoparticles and formulation chemistry. They also play a key role in the Nano Functional Materials (NFM) Consortium, a consortium of 13 commercial companies and 12 academic research groups in Israel that is developing new ways to fabricate and use nanoparticles in industrial processes and products.