Materials characterization

For information, please send an e-mail to
Dr Luisa Raimondo
e-mail: servizi-imprese.mater@unimib.it
phone: +39 02 6448 5110
Via R. Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano
U5 Building, 2nd Floor, Room 2072
Thermoluminescence authentication
Cost per measurement: 225.00 €
Thermoluminescence dating
Cost per measurement: 1100.00 €
Optically Stimulated Emission dating
Cost per measurementi: 860.00 €
Radiocarbon dating
Cost per measurement: 480.00 €
Dendrochronology (dating)
Cost per measurement: 156.00 €
Elemental analysis (C, H, N, S)
Cost per measurement: 38.50 €
Rehydroxylation dating
Cost per measurement: 1100.00 €
Gravimetric Analysis for the determination of water content
Cost per measurement: 852.00 €
Sampling
Cost per hour: 50.00 €
Elemental analysis (C, H, N, S)
Equipment: Elementar MicroCUBE
Cost per measurement: 38.50 €
Elemental analysis
Equipment: CLARUS 590 GC
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
Gravimetric Analysis for the determination of water content
Equipment: Quantachrome Instruments Aquadyne DVS2
Cost per measurement: 852.00 €
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
Equipment: TGA/DSC1 STARe SYSTEM (Mettler Toledo)
Cost per sample: 132.00 €
Thermogravimetric Analysis coupled to Infrared Spectroscopy (TGA/FTIR). Determination of the composition of the gaseous reaction products
Equipment: TGA/DSC1 STARe SYSTEM (Mettler Toledo)
Cost per sample: 198.00 €
Non-invasive EDXRF Analysis
Equipment: Artax (Bruker)
Cost per sample: 200.00 €
DSC for polymer analysis (3 runs)
Equipment: DSC1 (Mettler Toledo)
Cost per measurement: 160.00 €
GC-MS analysis (within 2000 u.m.a. electron impact ionization)
Equipment: Clarus 600 (Perkin-Elmer)
Cost per hour: 125.00 €
Electron Spin Resonance
Equipment: Bruker EMX 10/12
Cost per sample: 209.00 €
Laser Ablation ICP Mass Spectrometre
Equipment: Elan DRC II (Perkin Elmer)
Half day cost: 506.00 €
FTIR Spectroscopy
Equipment: FT/IR-6200 (Jasco, Jasco Corporation)
Cost per sample: 141.50 €
FTIR Spectroscopy at low temperature
Equipment: FT/IR-6200 (Jasco, Jasco Corporation)
Cost per sample: 201.00 €
MICRO-FTIR Spectroscopy
Equipment: Nicolet-iN10 (ThermoScientific)
Half day cost (technical assistance included): 279.00 €
FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy (liquid and solid samples)
Equipment: Spectrum 100 (Perkin Elmer)
Cost per hour: 148.00 €
FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy (liquid and solid samples)
Equipment:
Cost per hour: 148.00 €
NMR Spectroscopy in liquid solution
Equipment: AVANCE NEO 400MHz (Bruker)
Cost per hour: 192.00 €
Solid State NMR Spectroscopy
Equipment: Avance 300 (Bruker)
Cost per hour: 280.50 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). a) Determination of the proton content, b) determination of the rigid fraction in polymers (evaluation of the crystallinity). Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 50.00 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). Determination of the relaxation time T2 or T1 for the study of the crosslink density and homogeneity in elastomers. Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 90.00 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). Multiple Quantum Coherence Measurement for the study of crosslink density and homogeneity in elastomers. Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 200.00 €
Gel Permeation Chromatography for the determination of polymer molecular weight
Equipment: Waters 1515 isocratic HPLC pump; Waters 2414 refractive index detector
Cost per sample: 100.00 €
Anions or cations determination in aqueous solutions by ionic chromatography
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per sample: 60.00 €
High resolution mass determination with Dual ESI / TOF - direct injection
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per sample: 300.00 €
Separation of mixtures by HPLC (direct and reversed phase), UV-Vis detector
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per sample: 120.00 €
Separation of mixtures by HPLC (direct and reversed phase), UV-Vis detector, with method development
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per sample: 500.00 €
Separation of mixtures by HPLC (direct and reversed phase), UV-Vis detector and HRMS with Dual ESI/TOF
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per sample: 400.00 €
Photocatalytic activity measurement in solution (with products determination)
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per analysis (6h): 400.00 €
Photoelectrochemical measurement for water splitting (with products determination)
Equipment: HPLC-HRMS Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity II LC System
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
EPR and EDMR measurements. X and Q band. Variable temperature (10 K ÷ 500 K)
Cost per hour: 424.00 €
Electron Spin Resonance
Equipment: Bruker EMX 10/12
Cost per sample: 209.00 €
Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) Spectroscopy
Equipment: home made
Costo a campione: 150.00 €
NMR Spectroscopy in liquid solution
Equipment: AVANCE NEO 400MHz (Bruker)
Cost per hour: 192.00 €
Solid State NMR Spectroscopy
Equipment: Avance 300 (Bruker)
Cost per hour: 280.50 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). a) Determination of the proton content, b) determination of the rigid fraction in polymers (evaluation of the crystallinity). Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 50.00 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). Determination of the relaxation time T2 or T1 for the study of the crosslink density and homogeneity in elastomers. Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 90.00 €
Time-Domain NMR analysis (TD-NMR). Multiple Quantum Coherence Measurement for the study of crosslink density and homogeneity in elastomers. Single temperature experiment
Equipment: Minispec mq20 (Bruker)
Cost per measurement: 200.00 €
Caratterizzazione I/V (corrente, voltaggio, potenza massima, efficienza totale)
Equipment: Abet Technologies - Keithley instruments
Cost per hour: 246.00 €
Misure C-V a Temperatura Ambiente ed a singola frequenza
Cost per hour: 127.00 €
Misure C-V a Temperatura Variabile (10-500 K) ed a singola frequenza
Cost per hour: 270.00 €
Misura di resistività e mobilità
Equipment: home made
Cost per sample: 102.00 €
Misura di resistività e mobilità a bassa temperatura
Equipment: home made
Cost per sample: 202.00 €
Spettroscopia di impedenza
Equipment: HP 4284A (Hewlett Packard)
Half day cost: 103.50 €
Spettroscopia di impedenza elettrochimica (EIS) (1 cella)
Equipment: EG&G PARSTAT2263
Cost per sample: 114.00 €
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) of plastics and elastomers: single frequency analysis, determination of storage modulus, loss modulus and tan(delta)
Cost per sample: 300.00 €
Mechanical measurements of plastics and elastomers by means of Zwick dynamometer in traction or compression: determination of the elastic modulus, load at break, deformation at break. Minimum five specimens
Cost per analysis: 250.00 €
Measurement of the friction coefficient (normal force <10 mN, sliding velocity < 1 mm/s, path length < 5 mm) on samples with plane or spherical surface (e.g. soft contact lenses), also exposed to a liquid if necessary
Equipment: Nano-tribometro Anton Paar
Cost per sample: 265.00 €
Evaluation of elastic and viscous modulus, tan delta and other rheological parameters on polymer melts, viscous liquids and gels
Equipment: Reometro Anton Paar MCR 92
Cost per sample: 200.00 €
Rheology
Equipment: Reometro Kinexus Pro+
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
Dynamic mechanical analysis
Equipment: NETZSCH DMA 242E
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
Optical Microscopy Imaging (transmission or reflection configuration)
Equipment: BX51 (Olympus)
Cost per hour: 115.50 €
Hot-Stage Optical Microscopy Imaging (transmission or reflection configuration). Temperature: -190°C ÷ 600°C
Equipment: BX51 (Olympus)
Cost per hour: 148.50 €
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) - μm-resolution images. Scans on two different regions and on two areas per region, with size between 3×3 and 100×100 μm2
Equipment: Nanoscope V Multimode AFM (Veeco)
Cost per sample: 330.00 €
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) - nm-resolution images. Scans on one single region
Equipment: Nanoscope V Multimode AFM (Veeco)
Cost per sample: 440.00 €
Microscopic imaging of solid samples at room temperature via the acquisition of secondary electrons and backscattered electrons
Cost per hour: 90.00 €
For Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), please contact servizi-imprese.mater@unimib.it.
Non-invasive EDXRF Analysis
Equipment: Artax (Bruker)
Cost per sample: 200.00 €
IR Photoluminescence
Equipment: home made
Cost per sample: 277.00 €
IR Photoluminescence at low temperature
Equipment: home made
Cost per hour: 323.00 €
UV-VIS Photoluminescence
Equipment: Fluorolog 3.21 (Jobin Yvon)
Cost per sample: 277.00 €
UV-VIS Photoluminescence at low temperature
Equipment: Fluorolog 3.21 (Jobin Yvon)
Cost per hour: 323.00 €
UV-Vis wavelength resolved emission and excitation spectra. Cost per day (technical assistance included)
Cost per hour: 330.00 €
X-ray induced luminescence
Equipment: home made
(cost per day with assistance by personnel): 330.00 €
Co-registered MA-XRF mapping and VNIR-SWIR hyperspectral imaging
Cost per hour: 400.00 €
UV/vis/IR Microluminescence
Equipment: home made
Cost per sample: 275.00 €
Triple Micro-Raman Spectroscopy
Equipment: Jobin Yvon T64000
Cost per 0.5 day (technical assistance included): 266.00 €
Triple Micro-Raman Spectroscopy, deep-UV excitation
Equipment: Jobin Yvon T64000
Cost per 0.5 day (technical assistance included): 462.00 €
External Quantum Efficiency measurements (EQE or IPCE). Spectral response
Equipment: SPEQUEST (Rera systems)
Cost per hour: 284.50 €
Internal Quantum Efficiency measurements. (IQE or APCE). Spectral response.
Equipment: SPEQUEST (Rera systems)
Cost per hour: 295.50 €
Spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements on isotropic samples - thickness and refractive index in a spectral range selected between 190 and 1700 nm
Equipment: VASE (J.A. Woollam Co.)
Cost per sample: 1800.00 €
Spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements on isotropic samples - thickness and refractive index in a spectral range selected between 190 and 1700 nm, obtained using a model optimized for a first sample (applicable on samples out of a series).
Equipment: VASE (J.A. Woollam Co.)
Cost per sample: 250.00 €
UV-vis emission spectral profile
Cost per sample: 100.00 €
UV-Vis wavelength resolved emission and excitation spectra. Cost per day (technical assistance included)
Cost per day: 330.00 €
Time-resolved luminescence measurements with temporal resolution up to 2 ps. Cost per half day of use.
Cost: 500.00 €
Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements using a superconducting nanowire single photon detector.
Costo al giorno: 500.00 €
Transient optical absorption measurements with sub-ps time resolution.
Cost per sample: 300.00 €
Refractometry
Equipment: METRICON 2010 (Metricon Corporation)
Half day cost (technical assistance included): 253.00 €
Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR)Spectroscopy
Cost per sample: 150.00 €
Absorption spectrum of dye sensitized TiO2 photoanodes (5 DSC Cells - 1 dye)
Cost: 421.50 €
Absorption spectrum of dye sensitized TiO2 photoanodes (15 DSC Cells - 3 dyes)
Cost: 941.50 €
UV-vis-NIR transmission spectroscopy
Equipment: Lambda 1050+ (Perkin-Elmer)
Cost per sample (n samples ≤5): 176.00 €
UV-vis-NIR transmission spectroscopy
Equipment: Lambda 1050+ (Perkin-Elmer)
Cost per sample (n samples >5): 137.50 €
UV-vis-NIR near-normal incidence reflectance spectroscopy
Equipment: Lambda 150+ (Perkin-Elmer)
Cost per sample (n samples ≤5): 264.00 €
UV-vis-NIR near-normal incidence reflectance spectroscopy
Equipment: Lambda 1050+ (Perkin-Elmer)
Cost per sample (n samples >5): 198.00 €
Time and/or wavelength resolved photoluminescence with excitation at 260 nm, 350nm, 405 nm, or 510 nm
Equipment: Spettrofluorimetro FLS 980 (Edinburgh Instruments)
Cost per hour: 225.00 €
Time and/or wavelength resolved radioluminescence
Equipment: Spettrofluorimetro FLS 980 (Edinburgh Instruments)
Cost per hour: 450.00 €
Time and/or wavelength resolved photoluminescence excited by UV/Vis flashlamp
Equipment: Spettrofluorimetro FLS 980 (Edinburgh Instruments)
Cost per hour: 330.00 €
Electron Impedance Spectroscopy/Dielectric costant determination. Half day cost (technical assistance included)
Half day cost: 200.00 €
FTIR Spectroscopy
Equipment: FT/IR-6200 (Jasco, Jasco Corporation)
Cost per sample: 141.50 €
FTIR Spectroscopy at low temperature
Equipment: FT/IR-6200 (Jasco, Jasco Corporation)
Cost per sample: 201.00 €
FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy (liquid and solid samples)
Equipment: Spectrum 100 (Perkin Elmer)
Cost per hour: 148.00 €
MICRO-FTIR Spectroscopy
Equipment: Nicolet-iN10 (ThermoScientific)
Half day cost (technical assistance included): 279.00 €
MICRO-RAMAN Spectroscopy
Equipment: Labram (Dilor – JobinYvon)
Half day cost (technical assistance included): 266.00 €
Raman spectroscopy with portable instrument. Cost per half a day (technical assistance included)
Half day cost (technical assistance included): 250.00 €
UV-VIS-NIR Spectroscopy coupled to Integrating Sphere
Equipment: Lambda 950 (Perkin-Elmer)
Half day cost: 253.00 €
Wavelength resolved thermoluminescence
Equipment: home made
Cost per day with assistance by personne): 330.00 €
Equipment for spectroscopic measurements
Instrumentation for the emission of infrared laser light femtoseconds pulses (wawelength = 1030 nm) at high power (10 W) and high repetition rate (600 kHz)
Equipment: Femtosecond laser Pharos 10W 200uJ 600kHz
Cost per hour: 130.00 €
Cryostat for measurements at high magnetic field (max 5 T) in the temperature 2-300 K with optical accesses. It can be used by installing own excitation/revelation systems or by agreeing to use set-ups in the laboratory. Cost referred to use of magnet only. Cost per day of use.
Cost per day: 1000.00 €
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction. Room temperature. Cost per hour.
Equipment: Diffractometer RAPID II Rigaku
Cost per hour: 75.00 €
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction. Variable Temperature 80 K ÷ 490 K. Cost per hour.
Equipment: Diffractometer RAPID II Rigaku
Cost per hour: 100.00 €
X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Microcrystalline Powders under ambient conditions
Equipment: Diffractometer Rigaku SmartLab SE 2D
Cost: 250.00 €
X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Microcrystalline Powders NOT under ambient conditions
Equipment: Diffractometer Rigaku SmartLab SE 2D
Cost per hour: 200.00 €
Sample preparation and measurements of X-ray patterns
Equipment: Diffractometer MINIFLEX 600 HR
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
Static contact angle measurement (from 1 to 10 samples)
Cost per sample: 70.00 €
Static contact angle measurement (11th sample and up)
Cost per sample: 60.00 €
Advancing and receding contact angle measurement (11th sample and up)
Cost per hour: 150.00 €
Advancing and receding contact angle measurement (11th sample and up)
Cost per hour: 130.00 €
Cost per day: 1500.00 €
Thickness determination of thin-film samples by means of a profilometer
Equipment: Profilometer Dektak 8 (Digital Instruments, Veeco)
Cost per hour: 140.00 €
Determination of CO2 interaction energy in porous materials
Equipment: Microcalorimetro Micro DSCVII CS Evolution/IGA
Cost per hour: 250.00 €
Selective separation of CO2/N2 mixtures in porous materials
Equipment: Apparato di Breakthrough
Cost per hour: 220.00 €
Inorganic and organic film deposition
Thin Film Deposition (max 5x5 cm2)
Cost per deposition: 213.00 €
Metal coating by evaporation (gold, aluminum, silver), excluding the cost of the metal, also in glove-box
Costo per deposition: 114.00 €
Conductive oxides (AZO) and molybdenum thin film deposition by sputtering up to 10x10 cm2
Cost per sample: 150.00 €
Deposition of thin films (<100nm), also on 3D substrates, of metals (TiN, IrO2, RuO2), or oxides (TiO2, Al2O3, HfO2, ...) by thermal or plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (ALD) on substrates up to 8"". Cost indicated for Al2O3 20 nm. Deposition of other materials on request with tariff to be defined according to the process and the precursor used.
Equipment: Atomic Layer Deposition
Cost per sample: 4500.00 €
Thin film deposition of nitride semiconductors: GaN, AlGaN, InGaN, InN. Nominal thickness from 10 to 3000 nm
Cost per sample: 3000.00 €
Deposition of nitride semiconductors heterostructures: GaN, AlGaN, InGaN, InN. Maximum thickness 2000 nm
Cost per sample: 3000.00 €
Calibrazione sorgente (cella di Knudsen) per la deposizione di film sottili di nuovo materiale semiconduttore organico. Tariffa a prestazione
Cost per experiment: 3000.00 €
Deposizione di film sottili di semiconduttori organici (spessori nominali da 0.5 a 20 nm). Tariffa oraria.
Cost per hour: 90.00 €
DSC cells
TiO2 Coating 10x10 cm2
Equipment: AUREL Mod. 900T
Cost: 541.00 €
TiO2 Coating 10x10 cm2 (custom made image)
Equipment: AUREL Mod. 900T
Cost: 1108.00 €
Fabrication of DSC cells < 0.20 cm2 for component evaluation (1 dye + 1 electrolyte) (10 DSC cells)
Cost: 860.00 €
Fabrication of DSC cells < 0.20 cm2 for component evaluation (1 dye + 5 electrolytes) (25 DSC cells)
Cost: 1370.00 €
DSC Logo - custom made image (12 logos - 5x5 cm2)
Cost: 2606.00 €
Sample preparation/treatment
Laser cutting
Equipment: Blitz 10p (Deles)
Cost per sample: 246.00 €
Basic sample preparation and/or formulation (i.e. milling, homogenisation, distillation, extraction)
Cost per sample: 100.00 €
Multistep sample preparation and/or formulation (i.e. any complex operation requiring a combination of steps and more than 1 working day)
Cost per sample: 200.00 €