Innovation is the lifeblood of industrial polymer research and development - the push to improve materials or develop new ones infuses new life into the industry. Advancements in manufacturing processes and polymer testing such as root-cause failure analysis, are both essential to successful product enhancements. Precise knowledge of material properties and competitive products is crucial to meeting ever-evolving market demand. R&D labs are looking for polymer analysis techniques, including thermal analysis and FTIR imaging & microscopy, which address a wide variety of sample types, providing detailed insights and solutions that grow with demand.
Our comprehensive polymer product portfolio has the flexibility and high-performance analyzers to support your changing polymer research needs - and you can benefit from unique hyphenated solutions that generate multiple results from one run. With our portfolio of polymer testing instruments you can couple, or hyphenate, multiple instruments to uncover results and insights not possible with individual techniques. These technologies help advance the power of analysis in your laboratory.
- Identification
- Mechanical & thermal characteristics (e.g. expansion/contraction, melting point, crystallinity, glass transition)
- Oxidative stability tests - OIT
- Residual monomers/oligomers
- Additive determination
- Color measurements
Characterizing the structure, properties, and performance of polymers and compounds under process and usage considerations is key to understanding materials' properties. FT-IR technology leads the way in many industries, for example in the vital analysis of plastic films used extensively in food and pharmaceutical packaging.
Contamination can cause product failure, undesirable aesthetics, or quality issues. Any of these can cause failures of single items or an entire batch. Keep ahead of the competition using our solutions to conduct competitive analysis, detect faults in injection molding and check for surface contamination and coating failures.
Substances are added to polymer materials to enhance, change, or protect their properties, and it's critical to characterize all possible additives present in the material. Characterizations include identification of unknown material, quantification of individual additives, and detection of oxidation products.
Testing for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in polymer manufacturing ensures that products comply with international requirements for safeguarding environmental and human health. For example, VDA 278 is a GC/MS thermal desorption method for quantification of VOC emissions from vehicle components.
Do you want to better understand how a material degrades or what gases evolve when it burns? Coupling, or hyphenating, multiple instruments can uncover results and insights not possible with individual techniques. Our Thermogravimetric (TG) instruments can be coupled to Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR), Mass Spectrometry (MS), or Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) to provide you with greater knowledge. These technologies help advance the power of analysis in your laboratory.
The PerkinElmer HyperDSC technique is the most effective and most sensitive DSC technique available for the characterization of both the crystalline and the amorphous phase of a polymeric system. Polymers are often cooled down very fast during process (liquid --> solid), and the temperature of the polymer line as well as cooling rate are very important to control the polymer crystallinity. To mimic the process and understand what is happening in the production process a DSC is required that has the ability to cool down fast enough.
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