Within the framework of development or optimization projects of an industrial product, you wish to carry out a deformulation of your silicones.
What is a silicone?
A silicone is a polymer (inorganic compound) formed from a silicon-oxygen chain.
A hybrid between rubber and thermoplastic polymer, silicone is used in many fields.
Indeed, silicones have been adopted and adapted in various specialties including the medical field (eg breast prostheses), the food industry (eg cake molds) and are also found in the composition of cosmetic products including shampoos, moisturizers …
Why deform a silicone?
The deformulation of a silicone is a method allowing, with the help of various chemical analysis, to determine the nature and the quantity of its raw materials.
Moreover, it allows to better know the studied material and thus to better apprehend the structural problems of this one but also to characterize its defective quality.
FILAB assists you in the analysis of your silicones by chemical deformulation.
This deformulation analysis approach allows to answer different needs such as
our services
Analyze and determine the composition of an unknown silicone
Compare the composition of several silicones (double-sourcing or multi-sourcing)
Check the conformity to a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) or a technical data sheet of a silicone
Analyze and identify a pollution or an impurity in a silicone-based product
our resources
FTIR to determine the composition of silicone
GCMS and Py-GCMS to quantify additives, residual monomers, Bisphenol A, phthalates...
SEM/EDX to characterize a particle or a deposit
DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) to measure melting and degradation temperatures, crystallinity rate...
ICP to identify mineral fillers (Talc, silica fiber,...)
