About Element
Chemical analysis laboratories serve as a critical tool for manufacturers by providing essential data at all stages of your product's life—from material selection to R&D to failure analysis.
Our chemists continually train in the most advanced techniques to provide a wide range of chemical analysis services. Whether you seek to verify a material certification or to obtain a detailed breakdown of an unknown material, our team has the expertise necessary to help you select the proper method for your application and end goals.
Material Verification
Manufacturers across all industries rely on material verification services to ensure that the material they are utilizing has a chemical composition consistent with its certification documents. Element provides clear and concise test reports that state the results of the chemical analysis along with a comparison to the acceptance criterion (pass/fail). This allows manufacturers to “spot check” material lots and often serves as an investigatory first step for warranties and issues related to field failures.
Material Identification
Often, the identity of a material is completely unknown, due to lost certifications or ambiguity of the material’s origins. In these cases, Element’s chemists utilize their expertise to select numerous analytical techniques and perform advanced data analysis to uncover the complete chemical breakdown of a material. This allows companies to identify material recovered from the field, salvage unknown material that would otherwise be scrapped, and reverse engineer/deformulate existing products or components.
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Contaminant & Residue Analysis
When residue or unknown substance appears where it should not, identifying the contaminant quickly and accurately is crucial to correcting any underlying issues. Element’s investigative chemistry team has a wide range of equipment and techniques at their disposal, including SEM/EDS (Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy), XRD (X-Ray Diffraction), and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy).
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