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Work on foraminifera reference material underway
Together with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) we are developing nano-particulate pressed powder pellets made purely out of foraminifera to be used as a reference material for in situ microanalytical techniques. The starting material is an aliquot, provided by NIOZ, of NFHS-1 (NIOZ Foraminifera House Standard). It stems from a calcareous ooze,…
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North German Nanotechnology Initiative Schleswig-Holstein e.V. Newsletter
Tailor-made microanalytics from Kiel Revolution in solids analysis – that is the motto of myStandards GmbH in Kiel. The company produces nanoparticulate tablets for chemical microanalysis. “In recent years, microanalytical techniques for solid analysis have improved enormously and have produced a large variety of very powerful instruments. However, the development of suitable reference materials that…