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Nanopartz – Gold nanoparticles for your research

The innovative company Nanopartz is our supplier of choice for products based on gold nanoparticles. Both universities and numerous companies around the world are already using nanomaterials from Nanopartz. New technologies are created and old technologies are improved.

Our American partner Nanopartz offers a diverse range of products for research. It provides the basis of the core technology for life science fields such as diagnostics, imaging or therapeutic research. The products are also used in sensors, solar cells, liquid crystals, polarizers, materials with a negative refractive index, standards, catalysts and as robust sub-components in electronics.

While gold nanoparticles have been used primarily for light microscopy and lateral flow applications in recent decades, another research branch of nanotechnology has recently emerged. In particular, Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) require monodispersity in size and shape with highly reactive surfaces. Success depends mainly on the quality of the individual nanoparticles, not just on the properties in bulk. That is why Nanopartz does not just sell 100 ml gold nanoparticles, but individual nanoparticles that are specialized in your SPR or SERS application.

Accurate ™ spherical gold nanoparticles applications include one-step antibody functionalizations, oligo and DNA conjugations, click chemistry, lateral flow and more. Gold nanorods Nanorodz ™ are nanorod-shaped gold nanoparticles. They are available in diameters from 5 nm to 75 nm and lengths from 20 nm to 250 nm with SPRs from 550 nm to 2100 nm. Applications include one-step antibody functionalizations, oligo and DNA conjugations, click chemistry, lateral flow and more. Micrometer-sized gold (Microgold ™) are by definition the largest gold nanoparticles available and show properties that were not previously available to nanoparticles. Gold nanowires, Ramanprobes ™ are a new product family that combines both gold nanoparticles and fluorophores in one construct. The construct has extremely high sensitivity - up to 10 femtomolar with a simple 10 mW Raman spectrometer on a laser basis. Nanopartz has developed chemicals that have little background fluorescence, show high sensitivity without photobleaching, activate the potential for absorption, scattering and SERS detection and do not require a gold surface in the sandwich assay.

Nanopartz focuses not only on the production of high quality gold nanoparticles, but also on the polymers, ligands and coatings that enable these gold nanoparticles.