Chemical, Materials and Physical Analysis
High quality chemical and materials analysis can generate insightful information that can solve a myriad of issues. LPD Lab Services has a diverse range of materials, and chemical experience and coupled with a comprehensive range of laboratory analytical techniques. These can be applied to a wide range samples providing customers with easy to understand information to give them the answers they need to solve quality issues or reduce costs.
A combination chemical and materials analysis plus physical structure investigations can provide a true picture of how a product functions or a process operates. The laboratory's experienced staff are able to pull all this information together to provide advice in a down-to-earth language the customer understands.
- Chemical analysis includes AAS, XRF, FTIR, FTIR Microscopy, HPLC, GC, GC-MS, IC, UV/Vis Spectrophotometry, UV-Vis, NMR, wet chemical techniques, Karl Fischer, DSC, TGA, Gas Analysis GC-TCD-FID and extractables and leachables.
- Materials analysis techniques include SEM/EDX, surface analysis, XPS, SIMS, AES, Pyrolysis GC-MS, FTIR and FTIR Microscopy.
- Physical Analysis can be carried out by combinations of optical microscopy, SEM/EDX, cross-sectional analysis, Mechanical testing, hardness tests, Microhardness, flow or rheology characteristics and contact angle measurements.