Materials Analysis and Materials Science Research

Push your materials past their limits

Thermo Fisher Scientific understands your need to analyze and improve materials and provides technology, instruments, and support to help take your materials to the next level.

 

Our technologies can be used to analyze and characterize your materials using techniques such as FTIR spectroscopy and microscopy, Raman microscopy, NIR spectroscopy, Rheology, NMR spectroscopy, and more.

 

Whether it’s for nanomaterials, biomaterials, composites, or other materials -- from electronics and clean energy batteries to petrochemicals, oil and gas, to forensics, art restoration, polymer chemistry, drug delivery, and more -- we understand your process and offer solutions that suit your applications.
 

Featured products

Additives

Additive manufacturing, including 3D printing, is used to build prototypes, customized products, small batches and even products with complex design, so raw materials need to be analyzed.

Battery and Energy Storage

Finding new ways to provide cleaner energy and pack more power into smaller energy sources, such as batteries and solar cells, is driving the quest to advance today’s portable and renewable energy sources.

Biomaterials

Biomaterials are often used in medicine or dentistry so their applications require a high level of oversight and advanced technologies for analysis.

Bitumen

The rheological properties of bitumen (a product of a crude oil refining process) play an important role in developing new formulations of roofing, sealing, and insulation, and even road pavement.

Ceramic and Glass

Ceramics and glass research has paved the way for products used every day, from cooktops to fiber optics to cement; and material analysis continues to help drive modern advances in daily living.

Composite Materials

Combining materials such as metals, polymers, and glass into a composite product is a fundamental field of investigation in material science research. Discoveries lead to new products that can change our lives.

Electronic and Photonic Materials

Adapting electronics, photonics and magnetic materials to store more information and deliver it faster can directly impact our daily lives in a significant way.

Environmental Research

Research organizations, environmental agencies, and industrial producers require efficient and reliable methods to analyze organic and inorganic materials for research, monitoring, and sustainability.

Geologic and Mineral Materials

Many manufacturing materials come from ore extracted from the ground, so characterization of geologic and mineral materials is essential to help ensure quality and performance.

Metal and Metal Alloy Analysis

Metal permeates nearly every aspect of modern life, so if the material can be improved upon by scientists, the implications for daily living can be immense.

Nanomaterial Analysis

Nanotechnology focuses on smaller and smaller structures to develop next generation products. It crosses many industries and has proven to be a promising source of many new and advanced materials.

Petrochemical Analysis

See how our solutions meet standards and regulations in petrochemical analysis – from exploration, production, and refining to petrochemical additives, lubricants and catalysts.

Polymers and Plastics

Researchers are engineering new polymers with novel properties (strength, lightweight, heat resistance, protection, and bioinertia) that help enable new products or replace traditional materials.

Related technologies

3D Analysis Software

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software for visualizing and understanding materials science data from any imaging modalities.

Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Whether discovering new materials, solving analytical problems, improving processes, or assuring product quality, electron microscopy is capable of providing insight at all scales and modalities. 

Multi-modal Techniques

See how changes in one material quality affect other material qualities, thereby eliminating the guesswork that comes from sequential measurements.

Material Characterization: Rheology and Extrusion/ Compounding

Understand your needs to gain precise control over material shape, texture, and performance characteristics, which leads to innovative materials, improved functionality, cost-effectiveness, and overall product quality.

Spectroscopy Academy

Find helpful tutorials, fundamental diagrams, instrument guides, application notes and more resources to feed your curiosity.

Spectrometry and Spectroscopy Applications

We offer a full spectrum of analytical tools for the lab, production floor, or the classroom.

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.