Modern technologies enable and require the use of nanomaterials in many areas such as medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotech, cosmetics, but also construction, microelectronics, and many more.

For the production, modification and application of nanoparticles of various shapes, such as spherical particles, nanotubes, nanofibers, knowledge of their number and concentration, their particle size distribution and density is required. If nanoparticles are dispersed, it is important to understand the dispersibility (e.g. using the Hansen parameters), the effective hydrodynamic particle density, the elasticity, and other interactions and to influence them in the sense of application. In the longer term, the separation stability, the colloidal stability and particle interactions play a role, e.g. in order to prevent aggregation and flocculation. Nanoparticles can also have magnetic properties, so that other influences such as external magnetic fields have to be investigated. LUM offers a variety of particle and dispersion analyzers for all of the above applications.

Coatings can contain (modified) nanoparticles, plasma coatings can be nanostructured. Adhesion promoters can contain nanoparticles. The quantification of adhesion strengths of different coatings on a variety of substrates is one application area of ​​the multi-sample adhesion analyser from LUM.