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Materials change and degrade when exposed to different environments, however the speed and mechanism with which this takes place depends on external conditions. LPD Lab Services has a great amount of experience in analysing the degradation and change of a product over its lifetime in response to various conditions, for example:

• Mechanical property and physical characteristics checks over product life cycle or after artificially replicated environmental exposure.
• Evaluation of resistance of surfaces to chemicals.
• TGA measurement of materials and chemical degradation temperatures.
• Breakdown temperatures and analysis of degradation products by pyrolysis GC-MS.
• Resistance to environmental degradation.
• Assessment of degradation cause of materials over product life.
• Gas cracking catalyst activity measured by GC.
• Optimum breakdown temperature measurements using TGA on plastics, rubbers and organic compounds.
• Analysis of hydrolysis of polymers and rubbers from UV degradation.
• UV dehydrochlorination of PVC plastic components.