Polymers and Composites

Non-Metallic materials Analysis

MEIC uses a variety of analytical techniques for investigating non-metallic materials such as polymers, plastics, rubbers, composites, resins, monomers in various forms and shapes.  These may include films, emulsions, coatings, and other polymer related materials/additives.

DSC: Crystalline melting temperature, glass transition temperature, phase changes, crystallizations, reaction kinetics, completion of polymerizations

FTIR, XRD: Structural analysis of polymers, monomers, additives

GPC: Molecular weight, reaction kinetics, polymer degradation, polymer additives (plasticizers, stabilizers etc) identification 

TGA: Polymer degradation, impurity analysis

SEM: Provides 3 dimensional representations of solid surfaces. Produce images with higher resolution than conventional optical microscopes. Useful in analyzing particle size, shape, contamination identification, failure analysis etc..

· EDX: Qualitative elemental analysis and elemental localization of samples. Useful in investigating materials dispersion, contamination analysis, composite analysis etc.

Polymer Characterization

*At times we may have to use our collaborators/vendor’s facilities