You need to carry out a material characterization
Material characterization refers to all physicochemical analysis used to study:
- the composition,
- structure
- and properties of a material.
In industry, it serves several purposes: verifying compliance with specifications, optimizing the relationship between structure and performance, understanding the causes of failure, supporting the development of new products, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
FILAB supports you in your expertise in material characterization
What subjects are supported?
At the FILAB laboratory, we analyze various materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, glass, composites, and powders.
The material analyzed can be raw, semi-processed, or integrated into a complex formulation.
Call on the FILAB laboratory for a material analysis
Through our three service levels: analysis, expertise, and R&D support, FILAB supports companies in all sectors in material characterization expertise. To this end, FILAB provides its clients with the expertise and experience of its team, as well as a 5,200 m² analytical facility equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
This analysis is particularly relevant for optimizing a process, improving the durability of a component, or validating specific properties.
Our experts will assist you in determining whether material characterization is the most appropriate approach for your needs and in selecting the appropriate techniques.
Material is characterized by its chemical composition, its internal structure (amorphous or crystalline), its physical, mechanical, and thermal properties, as well as by the behavior of its surfaces and interfaces.
Services / Material characterization
Material characterization encompasses different areas of analysis.
The study of chemical composition allows for the identification and quantification of constituent elements, while the analysis of crystalline structure reveals phases and residual stresses.
Microstructure provides information on size, shape, and internal defects, and surface analysis highlights coatings and contamination.
Thermal analysis assess transitions and stability, while mechanical properties provide information on strength or conductivity.
Finally, particle size and porosity characterize particle structure, and the study of nanomaterials explores specific behaviors at the nanoscale.
Our services
Our techniques
Analysis of the organic fraction
IRTF, GC-MS, HPLC
Surface analysis
MEB, EBSD, AFM, TOF-SIMS, XPS
Mineral fraction analysis
ICP, SEO, DRX, Elemental analysers
Thermal analysis
ATG, Py-GCMS, DSC
Other
BET, Optical Microscope, Helium Pycnometry, GPC, DMA/TMA, Goniometer, Granulo Laser, IGA, RAMAN...
FAQ
Material characterization refers to the set of analytical methods used to determine the composition, structure, and properties (physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal, etc.) of a material.
It is used to verify compliance, optimize performance, diagnose defects, and guide the development of new materials.
Raw material characterization makes it possible to verify compliance (purity, undesirable compounds or unknown material, impurity content, humidity, chemical nature) before entering production, in order to anticipate risks of non-compliance, optimize batch reproducibility, and trigger investigations in the event of a detected deviation.
- Verify compliance with specifications (quality, tolerance, purity, absence of impurities)
- Understand the structure-property relationship to optimize the material or process
- Diagnose the causes of failure or deterioration (corrosion, cracking, wear)
- Guide the development of new materials or formulations
- Support regulatory validation or certification
The structure of matter can be characterized using diffraction methods (e.g., XRD for crystal structure), microscopy (SEM, TEM, AFM for microstructure), and spectroscopy (Raman) to reveal atomic or molecular arrangements.
These technical methods are used at the FILAB laboratory for material characterization.
