Deformulation of composite in laboratory
You wish to perform a deformulation on your composites?
What is a deformulation?
Deformulation is an analytical decomposition process that aims to separate, identify and quantify the substances that make up a formulation. To do this, deformulation uses many different chemical analysis.
The deformulation applies to any type of industrial sector and is used in various contexts:
- Analyze and determine the composition of an unknown mixture/material,
- Compare the composition of several products (double or multi-sourcing),
- Checking the conformity of a product to a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) or a technical data sheet,
- Understanding an unusual phenomenon, etc.
What is a composite?
A composite is a material that consists of at least two materials of different nature.
When two or more materials are combined, a material is obtained which has all the properties of the materials used for its manufacture and is thus a more efficient material.
A composite is made up of :
-A framework called reinforcement that ensures the mechanical strength of the composite material for example: fiberglass, carbon, hemp, linen.
– a matrix which protects the reinforcement
There is today a large number of composite materials, in particular fiberglass, reinforced concrete, plywood…
FILAB supports you in the deformulation analysis of your composites.
Thanks to its experience and its state-of-the-art analytical equipment (2100m² analysis laboratory), FILAB laboratory offers you its services for the analysis of deformulation of composite materials.
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Chemical analysis of the composition of the composite material from the mixtures of matrix, reinforcement and additive.
Characterization of composite material properties: length, diameter, degree of impregnation in the mass...
Accompaniment from the design to the evolution of your products based on composite materials
Study of failures on composite materials: aging, breakage, non-conformity, appearance of deposits or particles ...
For this, our laboratory has a Scanning Electron Microscope, coupled with an EDX probe, and numerous GC-MS and Py-GCMS equipments allowing to study the composition of the composite (carbon fiber, glass fiber, ceramic…).
In addition, thermogravimetric analysis by ATG coupled with FTIR will highlight the physico-chemical specificities of the composite material according to the temperatures.
