Leading Rheologist Joins Malvern Team
11 November 2008: Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments underlines its commitment to excellence in rheology with the appointment of Samiul Amin who joins the company from Unilever (Port Sunlight), where he provided the technical lead on the application of rheology in product development. As a member of Malvern's Novel Measurement Group, Dr Amin will work in two main areas: the development of new rheological solutions that exploit the high performance of the new Kinexus platform, and research into next generation rheology techniques. His role will include collaborative projects with industrial research and development groups, and leading academics.
A member of the both the Society of Rheology and the British Society of Rheology, Samiul Amin currently serves on the Royal Society of Chemistry/Society of Chemical Industry joint colloid committee. He is a chemical engineer by background with postdoctoral research experience at the highly regarded University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His area of specialisation is the rheology and microstructure of complex and nanostructured fluids.
Steve Carrington, Rheology Product Manager at Malvern said, "This is an exciting time for rheology at Malvern. In Kinexus we have a groundbreaking instrument that will meet the needs of the rheology community now and into the future. Working alongside our team of material characterization experts, Samiul will use Kinexus to develop intelligent rheological solutions for applications across a broad range of industries. He will also help drive a strong forward-looking programme, ensuring that Malvern rheology continues to provide the best measurement solutions for real applications."
Launched in September 2008, Kinexus is a revolutionary new rotational rheometer platform that has been designed entirely from the ground up. It enables users to spend less time learning how to interact with their system and more time investigating ways to characterize and enhance a material's performance.
Kinexus incorporates technological innovations in the most critical areas of rheometer design, from sample preparation and loading, through measurement set-up and operation, to data analysis and reporting. Adaptive intelligence allows Kinexus to actively guide users at every stage. www.malvern.com/kinexus
About Malvern Instruments
Malvern Instruments provides a range of complementary materials characterization tools that deliver inter-related measurements reflecting the complexities of particulates and disperse systems, nanomaterials and macromolecules. Analytical instruments from Malvern are used in the characterization of a wide variety of materials, from industrial bulk powders to the latest nanomaterials and delicate macromolecules. A broad portfolio of innovative technologies is combined with intelligent, user-friendly software. These systems deliver industrially relevant data enabling our customers to make the connection between micro (such as particle size) and macro (bulk) material properties (rheology) and chemical composition (chemical imaging).
Particle size distribution, particle shape information, zeta potential, molecular weight, chemical composition, and bulk materials properties can all be determined with instruments from the Malvern range. The company's laboratory, at-line, on-line and in-line solutions are proven in sectors as diverse as cement production and pharmaceutical drug discovery.
Headquartered in Malvern, UK, Malvern Instruments has subsidiary organizations in all major European markets, North America, China, Korea and Japan, a joint venture in India, a global distributor network and applications laboratories around the world. www.malvern.com
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