NanoProfessor adds qNano particle characterization
Marketwire
Skokie-base4d NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk Inc., has added Izon Science’s qNano particle characterization instrument to the NanoProfessor suite of instrumentation.
The qNano research instrument offers students hands-on ability to control, count, and characterize nanoparticles. The NanoProfessor Program consists of instrumentation, curriculum, and hands-on labs to expand students’ knowledge, skills, and real-world experience in the growing field of nanotechnology.
“We are extremely proud to have Izon as a strategic educational partner and excited to add Izon’s qNano characterization instrument to the NanoProfessor Program,” said Dean Hart, chief commercial officer of NanoInk. “With the addition of the qNano instrument, the NanoProfessor Program provides students significant hands-on experience and skills in nanoscale fabrication, imaging, and characterization of metallic nanoparticles and biologic agents. This unsurpassed level of hands-on experience translates to a higher level of student preparedness for exciting jobs and careers in the blossoming nanotechnology industry.”
The National Science Foundation projects a global demand of 6 million nanotechnology workers by 2020. However, it is estimated that only 400,000 nanotech workers are currently in the global workforce, which presents a challenge to nano-based companies moving from R&D to commercialization.
The NanoProfessor Program aims to expand hands-on nanotechnology education from the clean rooms of research-based universities to undergraduate classrooms, and is especially well-suited to nanotechnology educational initiatives at the community college, technical institute, and undergraduate university level. The program alternates between classroom lectures and hands-on lab work and includes a 275-page textbook authored by leading nanotechnology experts.
New Zealand-based Izon has developed the world’s first nanopore-based measurement system available for general use. Izon’s instruments are used for precise measurement, control, and analysis of individual particles across a wide range of scientific fields including bionanotechnology, nanomedicine, vaccinology, microbiology, biomedical research, environmental science, and particle-based nanoscience.