Reverse engineering a material can provide valuable insight to help you replace an obsolete or unknown silicone material, understand a competitor's technology and costs, or help you protect a patent. We can help you disassemble a material to identify and/or quantify its basic components including, but not limited to, polymers, crosslinkers, catalysts, plasticizers, fillers, additives, solvents. Dow Corning Analytical Solutions has the expertise and a wide range of instrument capabilities to help determine an unknown material's composition.

Benefits:

	Help protect patents
	Assess new technology
	Replace obsolete products or unknown materials
	Understand costs of competitor's materials

Understand product chemistries and properties through:

• Chemical Structure Identification(PDF) (Raman, IR, NMR, UV-VIS)
• Chromatography and Separations (GPC, HPLC, IC, GC)
• Mass Spectrometry(PDF) (GC-MS, LC-MS, GC-TOF-MS)
• Microscopy (optical, AFM, SEM, TEM)
• Surface Analysis (XPS or ESCA, contact angle, surface tension, interferometry)
• Elemental Testing (WDXRF, ICP-AES, ICP-MS, XRD)
• Thermal Analysis(PDF) (TGA, DSC, high temperature DSC, DMA, TMA, Py-GCMS, flashpoint)
• Physical Property Testing (solid and liquid density, rheology, flashpoint, melting and boiling point)

Please contact us by e-mail or call one of our global locations to discuss your specific testing needs.

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