Polymers and Composite Materials
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Polymer Blends & Composite Materials
- 3D internal imaging with micro-CT
- Identify contaminants and defects in failure analysis with SEM-EDS – more details…
Coatings
- Characterise coatings with Raman microscopy – more info…
Contaminant Identification
- Elemental analysis of particles using micro-XRF – Bruker M4 Tornado – Application Note
- Microplastics identification & analysis with Raman spectroscopy – read more…
- Locate and identify contaminants with SEM-EDS – more details…
- Simultaneous IR and Raman spectroscopy
Quality and Process Control
- Petrochemical quality control with WDXRF (less expensive than EDXRF) – Bruker S2 POLAR
Other Polymer Analysis Applications
- Non-destructive internal imaging of polymer samples – Bruker micro-CT
- Surface adhesion property mapping with AFM and Bruker’s Ringing Mode eg to investigate polymer necking – more details…
High Resolution Imaging with FEG-SEM
FEG-SEM image of polymer fibres, taken with the Thermo Scientific Phenom Pharos G2, the only desktop FEG-SEM system. Due to the high performance at low acceleration voltage of FEG compared to other SEM electron sources, you can study insulating and beam-sensitive materials without sample preparation. Samples are not damaged by the beam and nanoscale features are clearly visible. More about FEG-SEM…
