NanoPAT @ Analytica 2022

Every two years, Analytica is an international meeting point for experts from the fields of environmental, food and industrial analysis, biochemistry, biotechnology, genetic engineering, molecular and cell biology, medical diagnostics and pharmacology. As the largest and most important European congress trade fair of its kind, it regularly brings scientists, industry and users together and bring the opportunity to meet, make new contacts and present the latest innovations.

This 2022 edition took place on 21 – 24 June 2022 in Munich (Germany) and counted with 891 exhibitors from 39 countries and joined around 26.000 visitors from 114 countries worldwide for different stakeholder groups (customers and end users, Industry (Life Science, Material Characterization, University, PAT community (ICE Conference on Process Analytical Tools (PAT)), etc.)

In this occasion, NanoPAT was present in the exhibition with a booth on the topic Highly resolved (nano)particle analysis for the lab and production processes, where the project partners BRAVE Analytics GmbH and Medical University Graz represented the PAT Development of products developed within the NanoPAT project. As a result of the many chats during the 4 days of the exhibition, the NanoPAT team was able to make many interesting contacts that will be processed to address Production QM and R&D questions

Additionally to the booth, NanoPAT was present in the ICE Conference on PAT on June 21^st. Christian Hill (from BRAVE) gave an oral presentation on process Analytics with OptoFluidic Force Induction; Achim Ecker (from ZHAW – Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) gave an oral presentation showing the results of their research on PDW Spectroscopy. Both presentations were in the “PAT for Heterophase Systems” session, organised by the German Chemical Society (GDCh, in German), chaired by Roland Hass (from NanoPAT partner, PDWA Analytics GmbH) in his role representing the Working Group Process Analytics.

Visitors @ NanoPAT booth in Analytica 2022

From left to right: Roland Hass, Achim Ecker and Christian Hill during their presentation session in Analytica 2022.   

BRAVE B1 device & Donut(*)

(*) Story about the Donut: With the OptoFluidic Force Induction (OF2i) technology, a laser beam is sent through the measuring cell / through the sample. The sample flows in one direction through the measuring cell and the laser beam radiates in the other direction, causing the particles to move. The particles are accelerated (so the measurement principle is *not* based on Brownian motion, like DLS or Laser Diffraction, and gives results much faster). And the laser beam is in the shape of a donut – a ring with a hole in the centre (see image below). The sample is excited so that it also flows in donut shape, that is, in a ring with a hole in the middle without sample/particle. The particles, which flow accelerated on this ring, are then recorded with the camera and from their speed (and other factors, I don’t know that much about it…) the particle size is calculated.