Advanced Materials Characterization for Pigments, Coatings & Nanodots: Unlocking Insights with the Zetasizer Advance

Understanding particle behaviour is fundamental to the successful development and optimisation of advanced materials. From pigments and coatings to increasingly sophisticated nanoscale materials such as quantum dots and other nanodots, properties including particle size, dispersion state and surface charge can have a significant influence on stability, processing behaviour and final product performance.

In this webinar, Dr. Mike Kaszuba will explore how light-scattering techniques can be used to investigate advanced materials across pigments, coatings and nanodot applications. He will examine how particle size and zeta potential measurements can provide complementary information about dispersion quality and colloidal stability, and how these measurements can be applied to formulation development, troubleshooting and quality control.

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how particle characterisation can help connect nanoscale material properties with real-world formulation behaviour and performance.

Who should attend? 

• Scientists, formulators, analytical scientists, materials scientists, R&D professionals and QC specialists working with pigments, inks, paints, coatings, nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanodots or other advanced dispersed materials. 

What will you learn? 

• How particle size, aggregation and surface charge can influence the behaviour of pigments, coatings and nanodot formulations. 
• Why combining particle size and zeta potential measurements can provide a more complete understanding of dispersion behaviour. 
• How formulation conditions such as pH, ionic strength and concentration can affect particle interactions and colloidal stability. 
• Practical considerations for obtaining reliable light-scattering measurements from advanced-material samples. 
• How the Zetasizer Advance can support material development, formulation optimisation, troubleshooting and quality control.

Speaker: Dr. Mike Kaszuba (Senior Applications Product Specialist, Malvern Panalytical)