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Services for Companies

Access ICMAB scientific and technical expertise for material preparation, measurement and characterization.

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Scientific services built around your material question

ICMAB provides scientific and technical services for the preparation and characterization of materials, nanomaterials, soft molecular systems, thin films, powders, dispersions, coatings, electrodes and devices.

Services use the techniques and infrastructure available through the ICMAB Scientific and Technical Services.

What a standard service can include

  • Measurement data
  • Technical support
  • Data processing
  • Interpretation or technical reporting when requested

Characterization services for companies

Choose the service that best matches the property, structure or performance question you need to investigate.

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Spectroscopic Characterization

Scientific & Technical Service
Chemical, optical and paramagnetic information from powders, films and liquids.
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Thermal Analysis and Evolved Gas Analysis

Scientific & Technical Service
Thermal behaviour, decomposition products, surface area and porosity.
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X-Ray Diffraction

Scientific & Technical Service
Phase, crystal structure, texture, stress and thin-film analysis.
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Thin-Film Preparation

Scientific & Technical Service
Fabrication of complex oxide, metal and oxide–metal thin-film structures.
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Soft Materials

Scientific & Technical Service
Preparation and characterization of molecular, polymeric and dispersed systems.
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Low-Temperature and Magnetometry

Scientific & Technical Service
Magnetic and electrical properties under controlled temperature and field.
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Electron Microscopy

Scientific & Technical Service
Surface morphology, microstructure and elemental composition for advanced materials.
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TEM and electron diffraction

Scientific & Technical Service
Nanostructural imaging, electron diffraction and elemental microanalysis.
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Scanning Probe Microscopy

Scientific & Technical Service
Nanoscale surface, electrical, magnetic and electromechanical characterization.
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A clear route from sample to usable evidence

Discuss the need

Define the question

Clarify the sample, property and information required before measurement.

Measure

Use ICMAB infrastructure

Carry out standard measurements with support from technical experts.

Process the data

Prepare the results

Organise and process the measurement data for technical use.

Interpret and report

When requested

Add interpretation or a technical report where this is part of the agreed service.

Standard technical service

Choose a standard service when an established technique and measurement route can answer your characterization or preparation need.

Contract research or collaboration

Requests involving a new method, a customised experimental programme, in-situ or operando measurement, device development or advanced scientific interpretation beyond a standard service should be developed as contract research or collaboration with an ICMAB research group.

Not sure which service fits your sample?

Share your material, the information you need and any relevant sample or measurement constraints. The team can route your enquiry to the most suitable technical service.

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