U6. Soft Materials Service: Preparation and characterization of nano- and microstructured molecular soft materials

Located at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), in Barcelona, and under the coordination of Prof. Nora Ventosa, current director of NANOMOL Group, which is a research group with wide expertise and recognized excellence in the synthesis, processing, and study of molecular and polymeric materials with chemical, electronic, magnetic and biomedical properties. It gathers several laboratories, perfectly equipped, to perform the mission of this facility: the development, characterization, and large-scale production of molecular biomaterials of therapeutic or biomedical interest, with controlled micro-, nano-, and supramolecular structure. One example of Key-Enabling-Technology (KET) available in this unit is a simple one-step methodology, DELOS-SUSP, based on the use of compressed fluids (CF), such as CO2, to prepare particulate materials with precise and reproducible structural characteristics at micro-, nano- and supramolecular levels (size, shape, internal structural gradients, supra­molecular organization, and crystalline purity). This example shows one of the singularities of this unit: that it counts with CF–based plants at different scales, from mL to L, which allows process development by QbD and process scale-up.

The NANBIOSIS Unit 6 works under the ISO9001 certification for standard quality control system