Nanoparticle processing

Nano-particles have attracted a great attention of the industries such as ceramic-processing, coating, paints, inks, drug delivery and food processing due to their unique characteristics. However, they are difficult to be handled especially during production at industrial scale due to their small sizes. To control the handling problem of these materials, an appropriate process to consolidate the nano- particles into macro scale nano-assemblies is of potential interest for variety of industrial applications. On the other hand for many applications such as drug delivery, production of nano-assemblies with well-defined structure and size distribution is of crucial importance. In this context, kinetic and mechanism of dissolution and/or dispersion of these materials highly depends on their size and structural properties.