Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTSThe focus of process description, control and optimization but also quality protection lies on the analysis of the used materials. The accredited laboratory (DIN EN ISO/EC 17025) for powder and suspension characterization offers the assessment of materials with different chemical compositions: From ceramics based on oxides, carbides and nitrides over metals and carbides to glasses and organic materials.
Services offered
- Assessment of the processing properties of powders
- Suspension characterization for metrological supported slurry development
- Online analysis for the assessment of surface charges
- Characterization of ceramic components by gas adsorption and mercury porosimetry
- Analysis of nanoparticles
- Assessment of health and environmental impact of nanoparticles
- Services and consultancy in the field of powder and suspension characterization
Technical equipment
- Electrokinetic metrology
- Electroacoustic metrology
- Particle size analysis based on laser diffraction and dynamic light scattering
- Ultrafiltration
- Rotation and oscillation viscosimetry
- Particle shape identification using dynamic image analysis
- Mercury porosimetry
- Surface area analyzer by gas adsorption (BET)
- Helium pyknometry