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Polymer and plastic characterisation & analysis
Chiralabs can offer a wide variety of characterisation studies and investigations of polymers and plastics using a range of spectroscopic, physicochemical and chromatographic techniques (including circular dichroism analysis, UV Visible NIR absorption analysis, fluorescence analysis, FTIR analysis, FTIR-ATR analysis, Raman analysis, HPLC analysis, ion chromatography, elemental analysis, electron microscopy, NMR, GC-MS, etc.):
- Polymer, filler & additive identification
- Composition, impurity profiles & authenticity
- Comparability, consistency & similarity
- Stabilities
- Leachables
- Physical properties
- Relative photostabilities
- Reference spectra & data
- Microscopy & spatially resolved elemental analysis
- Degradation, contamination and fault analysis
We routinely work to high accuracy with microsample quantities, using leading-edge research-grade instrumentation.