Company Germany
Customized Products
Customized Nano- and Micro-Particles
Nanotechnology is rapidly evolving into one of the most important key technologies of the 21st century. Our core technology is based on nanoparticles in a size of a millionth millimetre. They provide a basis for new materials and multifunctional tools. As the dimensions of nanoparticles are on the scale with biological elements such as DNA, proteins or membranes, they are an ideal tool especially in the field of medicine to research, diagnose and treat numerous diseases.
Short development cycles
Speed and versatility of the manufacturing process enable us to offer beside ready to use products tailor-made particles with a wide range of features and short development cycles on demand:
Customized spherical beads
Materials: Silica, Polymers, Gelatine
Sizes: 10nm / 3mm
Customized encapsulation of:
Magnetic colloids, drugs luminescent substances and biological substances
Tool-up possibilities:
Magnetic / Non-Magnetic
Biocompatible
Thermo sensitive - Thermo stable
Solid - Fluid
Hydrophilic / Hydrophobic
Choice of various fluorescent colours
Choice of different binding groups
Choice of different ligand attachments
Product 1: STA Beads
The company's beads are magnetic silica beads coated with streptavidin.
The beads can be used in numerous biological and biochemical applications based on the very strong Streptavidin-Biotin bonding. Silica beads coated with Streptavidin can be used to isolate biotinylated proteins or other biotinylated molecules out of different edia. It's easy to bind a biotinylated antibody to the bead to isolate a specific target protein out of a cell lysate.
Product 2: Protein Beads
Protein A and/or G beads can be used to detect or isolate target proteins by coupling the Fc domain of the IgG antibody for a target protein. The advantage of these beads compared to streptavidine beads is that the antibody does not need to be biotinylated. So they are ideal for protein isolation and proteomics.
Product 3: Quantum Dots
The company's dots are fluorescent dyes encapsulated in non-magnetic silica beads ranging form 20 nm up to 10 µm. They are longlasting fluorescents avoiding shortcomings of conventional organic fluorescent dyes. Furthermore they may be an efficient and cost effective alternative to the quantum dot technology in research, biotechnology and drugdiscovery. First samples of prototypes in different bead sizes with different dyes will be available soon for purposes of research.
