Innovative methods for particle formation, formulation and characterization
Development of tailored metallic, semiconducting or insulating particles using highly optimized bottom-up or top-down processes
Properties of particulate systems can be tailored for size, shape, morphology and surface, and their respective distributions. Tailoring the related formulation techniques (for example, stabilization, dispersion, suspension rheology, separation/classification, granulation) is inadequately understood but of utmost importance to particulate-based nanotechnology. The integration of the building blocks by tailoring their microscopic interactions into meso- and macro-scale structures defines to a large extent the multifunctional properties of the devices (product engineering). The following processes and technologies are developed: