Colloidal Metrics Corporation

Colloidal Metrics Corporation, doing business as Colloidal Metrics Corp, is a for-profit subchapter S corporation based in Mountain View, California that manufactures nanoparticle size standards and reference materials. The company has been registered in the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) to receive federal contracts and grants since March 2017.

Colloidal Metrics Corp has received a prime federal contract award from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology for the purchase of 150 vials of polystyrene latex, a nanoparticle size standard material. This $27,791.65 purchase order contract, awarded in September 2022 with a December 2022 completion date, was not set aside for any specific type of small business.

Colloidal Metrics Corp has received two prime federal cooperative agreement grant awards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the Department of Commerce. The first was a $100,000 award in August 2021 under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) to develop innovative manufacturing techniques for producing dual-function calibration spheres from 100 to 400 nanometers in diameter through February 2022. The second cooperative agreement, awarded in October 2022 for $800,000 over two years through September 2024, will enable Colloidal Metrics Corp to extend its manufacturing capabilities for producing 200nm and 400nm polystyrene latex size standards modeled after its existing high-quality 100nm standard. The company will also determine causes of excessive scattering variations and validate particle size and concentration for a specific latex submitted during the prior phase. This work aims to provide new dual-purpose size standard and concentration reference materials to benefit users of nano-scale particle instrumentation across scientific, institutional, government, and commercial sectors.