Chemical and physical testing to characterize polymers and chemicals, especially for absorbable and non-absorbable medical devices made from them.
Service overview (selection):
- Determination of the inherent or relative viscosity of polymers
- Determination of residual moisture (KF titration)
- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Residual solvent content determination by means of headspace GC
- GC-MS (e.g. for determination of residual monomer content)
- NMR spectrometry (identity, composition)
- FTIR spectrometry (e.g. ATR technique and IR microscope)
- UV/VIS spectrometry (e.g. dye content measurements)
- Soxhlet extraction
- Determination of elements by means of optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES)