New Readily Dispersed Dry Monosize Particles

Readily Dispersed Dry Monosize Latex Particles

Precisely coated near-monodisperse latex particles with ultrathin (~ 10 nm) coatings of conducting polymer developed by Prof. Armes of the University of Sheffield. These particles behave as highly effective ‘smokes’, i.e. they have a much more pronounced tendency to become aerosols than the uncoated latex particles because the conducting polymer overlayer allows substantial surface charge to be acquired, which in turn leads to strong mutual repulsive forces between adjacent latex particles.
These core-shell particles have been used as synthetic mimics for understanding the behaviour of micro-meteorites in a collaboration with space scientists in the UK, Germany and the USA as they can be accelerated by an electric field.

Easily dispersed in air they can be used as model smokes and dusts in testing and experiments.


Available now as dry powders in micron sizes and shortly to be available in nano size ranges of mean diameters ranging from 100-200 nm, 200-300 nm, 400-500 nm and 800-1000 nm.  Other size ranges can be prepared to order.

You can view the SEM image of the 800nm-1000nm particles here

For further informaton regarding availability please contact sales@particletechnology.com