Using state-of-the-art electronics to safely generate the required high-voltage DC pulses, the Elcometer 280 Pulsed DC Holiday Detector detects holidays in coatings without the need to ground the gauge to the substrate.
Fischer Technology, Inc., an innovator of coating thickness, material testing, and material analysis instrumentation, announced the opening of an additional sales and service office located in San Mateo, CA.
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories Inc. has announced the launch of www.textureanalysis.com, a new informational Web site specifically focusing on the science of texture analysis.
Development teams at Steuler KCH Materials GmbH (Siershahn, Germany) are using the Kinexus rotational rheometer from Malvern Instruments to help analyze the rheological characteristics of products such as spray coatings.
New particulation testing at Bayer's Medical Coatings Development Centre in Sheffield, England allows the company to better assess the quality and safety of the customer parts it coats.
Researchers working at NanoQAM, the nanotechnology research centre of the University of Quebec (Montreal, Canada), are successfully innovating novel polymer coatings on the basis of data measured using a Viscotek high-temperature gel permeation chromatography (HT-GPC) system from Malvern Instruments.
The commercial availability of LALS detectors allows GPC practitioners to measure the molecular weight of a sample with certainty, avoiding any issues of data extrapolation or data fitting.
