NanoScape’s customers benefit from an established technology platform covering proprietary materials, synthesis techniques and application methodology. This expertise flows into products ranging from catalysts through filters to adsorbers, and impinges upon areas such as industrial chemical production, packaging for pharmaceuticals and electronic components, heat exchangers, water purification systems and photovoltaic devices.

Synthesis
NanoScape's extensive materials know-how is supported by proprietary synthesis technologies for NanoZeolites and NanoOxides, coupled with an innovative purification technology for these NanoMaterials.  NanoScape's NanoMaterials are made using hydrothermal synthesis, crystallization and sol-gel preparation techniques.

Dispersion
NanoMaterial powders can be readily suspended in aqueous or alcoholic media. After suitable modification powders can be dispersed into various monomer or polymer types.

Coating
Using stable, colloidal NanoMaterial suspensions, thin films (down to one monolayer thickness) can be produced on a variety of substrates, such as: glass, ceramic, metal and polycarbonate. Furthermore, NanoScape has developed specific Dip-coating and spin-coating techniques.

Encapsulation
NanoScape has developed certain preparation techniques which allow encapsulation of functional molecules, e.g. dyes, within the porous structure of its NanoZeolites. Slow-release and triggered release mechanisms for such host-guest systems have also been developed.

Characterization
A host of modern characterization techniques are used in the development of the nanomaterials, including:

• Scanning & Transmission Electron Microscopy (SEM / TEM)- for morphology and particle size analysis
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction - crystallinity assessment of solid, phase purity
• Dynamic Light Scattering - particle size analysis in suspension
• N2-Adsorption - surface area and pore size / pore volume determination