Published 30 Sep 2020
Thanks to its flexibility and high-efficiency potential, AM can bring significant advantages to manufacturers in a wide range of industries.
Tags: additive manufacturing, materials characterization, Particle size
Published 25 Sep 2019
The primary goal when employing gel permeation / size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) is often to determine the molecular weight of a macromolecular sample. Multi-detector systems, such as Malvern Panalytical’s OMNISEC and TDAmax systems, are able to offer a range of…READ MORE >
Tags: gel permeation chromatography, GPC, hydrodynamic radius, hydrodynamic size, materials characterization
Published 13 Aug 2019
You’ve done the hard parts to get your GPC/SEC instrument ready: prepared the mobile phase, stabilized the detector baselines, and prepared your sample. After injection and completion of your sample sequence, you have acquired data. Congrats! Now, before you even…READ MORE >
Tags: gel permeation chromatography, GPC, materials characterization, molecular weight, OmniSEC
Published 7 Mar 2017
How can I use DLS for sample xyz? What is the best sample concentration / refractive index for reliable DLS size measurements? Has it been done before? In Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) we analyze intensity fluctuations in the sample to…READ MORE >
Tags: base pair, buffer, clean water, concentration, DLS
Published 11 Aug 2015
When working with a couple of our Morphologi G3-ID cement customers I have come to realize that cement is an incredibly complex product. Working with one of our customers in the cement industry we wrote an article, published last year…READ MORE >
Tags: Cement, materials characterization, Morphologi G3, morphologi G3-ID, particle characterization
Published 30 Jun 2015
The Zetasizer has some optional advanced protein features that you may not be aware of: DLS Debye Plot: a dynamic Debye plot of the measured hydrodynamic size as a function of sample concentration to obtain the dynamic Virial coefficient (also known…READ MORE >
Tags: A2, B22, DLS, dynamic debye, dynamic light scattering
Published 26 Jun 2013
As a product technical specialist I get to see many applications and customers. Something that has regularly come up is the problem of measuring fibers by image analysis. Caliper based length and width measurements of fibers do not always give…READ MORE >
Tags: characterization, Fibers, image analysis, imaging, materials characterization
Published 7 Feb 2013
Thinking back to those early design meetings that the development team here at Malvern Panalytical undertook at the inception of the Kinexus rheometer project, one of our key aims was to deliver a new rheometer platform that enabled total flexibility…READ MORE >
Tags: Kinexus range, materials characterization, rheology, rheometer
Published 30 Oct 2012
If you take a listen to the theme tune for the 1958 B-movie classic ‘The Blob’, you’ll hear a song that sounds bizarrely cheerful and frivolously upbeat, for a film that has probably been the cause of recurring night terrors…READ MORE >
Tags: coatings, gels, materials characterization, rheology, speciality chemcials