Within the framework of development or optimization projects of an industrial product, you wish to carry out a deformulation of your silicones
What is a silicone?
A silicone is a polymer (inorganic compound) formed from a silicon-oxygen chain.
A hybrid between rubber and thermoplastic polymer, silicone is used in many fields.
Indeed, silicones have been adopted and adapted in various specialties including the medical field (eg breast prostheses), the food industry (eg cake molds) and are also found in the composition of cosmetic products including shampoos, moisturizers …
Why deform a silicone?
The deformulation of a silicone is a method allowing, with the help of various chemical analysis, to determine the nature and the quantity of its raw materials.
Moreover, it allows to better know the studied material and thus to better apprehend the structural problems of this one but also to characterize its defective quality.
FILAB assists you in the analysis of your silicones by chemical deformulation
This deformulation analysis approach allows to answer different needs such as
our services
Analyze and determine the composition of an unknown silicone
Compare the composition of several silicones (double-sourcing or multi-sourcing)
Check the conformity to a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) or a technical data sheet of a silicone
Analyze and identify a pollution or an impurity in a silicone-based product
Discover our polymer deformulation services
Quickly identify the nature of the main polymer (material sorting, simple control).
Quickly identify the nature of the main polymer (material sorting, simple control).
Determine the composition of the polymer matrix and understand its molecular structure (copolymers, thermal degradation, stabilities).
Identify the polymer and the presence/nature of mineral fillers.
Identify all the organic constituents (polymer + additives).
Obtain the total organic and mineral composition
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| FTIR | Py-GCMS | TGA | SEM-EDX | NVR | GC/MS | LC-HRMS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Signature » PACK | ✅ | ||||||
| « Signature + » PACK | ✅ | ✅ | |||||
« Structure » PACK | ✅ | ✅ | |||||
| « Insight » PACK | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |||
| « ORGANIC ADDITIVES » PACK | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |||
| « DEEP » PACK | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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FTIR to determine the composition of silicone
GCMS and Pyrolysis GC-MS to quantify additives, residual monomers, Bisphenol A, phthalates...
DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) to measure melting and degradation temperatures, crystallinity rate...
SEM/EDX to characterize a particle or a deposit