SwRI facilities house state-of-the-art equipment for chemical analyses.

The Biomedical Materials Engineering group at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) uses an array of multidisciplinary skills and instrumentation to address clients' analytical needs in medical device materials.

Analysis Technology Strengths

Technical strengths and abilities in analysis technology include:

• Thermal analysis: TGA (thermogravimetric analysis), DSC (differential scanning calorimetry), and TMA (thermomechanical analysis)

• Spectroscopy: FTIR (Fourier transform infrared), Raman, UV-Vis, Auger, EDXA (electron dispersive X-ray analysis) and AFM (atomic force microscopy)

   

  	SwRI has a wide range of analytical capabilities.

• Rheology: dilute solutions, polymer melts, steady shear, and dynamic viscosity

• Mechanical testing: extension and yield point

• Failure analysis: polymers and metals

• Microscopy: SEM (scanning electron microscope), light microscope, and digital imaging

Materials Development

The Materials Development Section  focuses on solving client materials problems through the use of chemical and materials expertise. The section has approximately 12,000 square feet of laboratory, workshop, and office space housing state-of-the-art equipment for all aspects of soft and hard materials development and analysis.

For more information about our analysis technology capabilities, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Michael A. Miller at mmiller@swri.org or (210) 522-2189.