Kent-based Naneum make portable miniaturised instruments to sniff out and identify nanoparticles.

Naneum instruments are being used to investigate climate change, assess workplace air-quality, and study health implications of breathing in nanoparticles.

Naneum is the winner of a 2012 Innovation Award from the Institute of Physics celebrating companies that make the most of applying physics in a commercial environment.

About the film

Filmed on location at Naneum, Canterbury Innovation Centre, Canterbury, UK.

Director: Martyn Bull
Producer: Thomas Delfs
Camera: Mark Whatmore
Editors: Liam Angell, Mike Willbourne
Cast: Dr Robert Muir, Dr Brian Steer

Production company: insitu
Client: Institute of Physics