Surface analysis - a useful tool for your applications

When it comes to material design, the surface properties of your product are often very important to achieve the desired performance. Surface analyses at RISE can provlde solutions to many of your challenges, for example to use when troubleshootlng your product.

Product value chain and surface analysis
In the value chain of your product, surface analyses can give you useful input for improved surface design and product performance.

Examples of surface analyses performed at RISE:

Cleaning of surfaces such as metals and glass
To follow the effect of cleaning, use surface analysis before and after the cleaning step.

Adhesion problems in laminates, such as packaging products or coatings on a metal surface
If you have poor adhesion between the layers of a laminate, surface analysis can detect the cause of the failure, a good starting point for improving adhesion.

Surface modification of different materials such as metals, packaging films or powders
After surface modification, check with surface analysis that the surface chemistry you wanted was indeed obtained.

Depth profiles in metals, polymer layers or laminates
Want to have a deeper look into your sample? Please contact us at RISE.

Corrosion on metals and other surfaces
If your sample is corroding, surface analysis can be used to try to find the cause and see if corrosion inhibitors have any effect.

Ageing effect due to migration in water-based systems such as latex films and adhesives
Could the ageing effect you observe be due to migration of chemical components from the bulk to the surface? Surface analyses can detect the amount and type of chemical components.

Amount and thickness of an adsorbed layer or the surface coverage of each component
In material design, such as particle formation in foods and pharmaceuticals, from quantifying the surface chemistry it is possible to calculate data such as the amount and thickness of a layer adsorbed on the surface, or the surface coverage of each component in a formulation.

Chemical components in for example pharmaceutical products
Do you want to detect the chemistry in 3D without having to cleave your sample first? Are you interested in studying whether your sample swells or crystallises? Please contact us at RISE.

Need help characterizing the surfaces in your applications? Welcome to RISE!
To answer to your needs we offer a complete solution through our toolbox for surface analysis. Note that it is often an advantage to combine several techniques. Examples of surface analysis methods are XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy), ToF-SIMS (Time-of-Flight Secondary lon Mass Spectrometry), SEM-EDS (Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy), Confocal Raman microscopy, AFM (Atomic force microscopy) and Contact angle measurements.