{"id":4922,"date":"2016-07-21T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/?page_id=4922"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:37:48","slug":"working-with-industry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/?page_id=4922","title":{"rendered":"Working with Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_5_6 5_6 fusion-five-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:82.6666%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>The Soft Matter Laboratory carries out a wide range of research and offers a wealth of expertise. It is now widely accepted that innovation is more likely to occur when people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of expertise work together and share their thinking. Our researchers have common interests and complementary backgrounds (chemistry, physics, biochemistry, and engineering) and work together in teams with the aim of identifying industrial problems and implementing creative solutions to your most difficult problems.<\/p>\n<p>We have a portfolio of research and consultancy projects involving industrial partners and are able to offer a variety of services including analysis, consultancy and collaborative research.<\/p>\n<p>Our lab benefits from possessing a very wide range of world class facilities for research as well as analytical and technical services. In this context, we emphasize the following advantages of partnering with us:<\/p>\n<\/div><ul style=\"--awb-size:13px;--awb-line-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-width:22.1px;--awb-icon-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-margin:9.1px;--awb-content-margin:31.2px;--awb-circlecolor:#1a80b6;--awb-circle-yes-font-size:11.44px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-1 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We offer consultancy services to meet your needs such as customized analytical services, troubleshooting, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We offer access to modern facilities for the characterization of materials as well as training under the guidance of expert technical staff. We have the specialists with the technical and scientific skills to carry out the analysis of your samples<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We work with companies to develop new products and innovative solutions to their problems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We work with companies to help them exploit our \u201cknow-how\u201d and intellectual property.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We offer custom-designed specialty analytical test services to solve the problems of industrial customers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"accordian fusion-accordian\" style=\"--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:14px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#333333;--awb-content-color:#747474;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#1a80b6;--awb-title-font-family:&quot;Roboto&quot;;--awb-title-font-weight:400;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:13px;--awb-title-line-height:1.5;--awb-content-font-family:&quot;Roboto&quot;;--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;\"><div class=\"panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed\" id=\"accordion-4922-1\"><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-c72ec72131c8b98a7 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_c72ec72131c8b98a7\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"c72ec72131c8b98a7\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-4922-1\" data-target=\"#c72ec72131c8b98a7\" href=\"#c72ec72131c8b98a7\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Materials characterization services<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"c72ec72131c8b98a7\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_c72ec72131c8b98a7\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">Modern materials science and engineering requires sophisticated and modern equipment. We are equipped with state-of- art facilities allowing our experienced technical staff to comprehensively characterize the physical and chemical properties of a broad variety of materials and to provide<br \/>\nadvice on your materials engineering and processing issues. In particular, our facilities are designed to address equipment needs in the areas of polymer, colloidal, interface and materials sciences.<br \/>\nThese facilities include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><ul style=\"--awb-size:13px;--awb-line-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-width:22.1px;--awb-icon-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-margin:9.1px;--awb-content-margin:31.2px;--awb-circlecolor:#1a80b6;--awb-circle-yes-font-size:11.44px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-2 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Dynamic light scattering (DLS)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) <\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Raman spectroscopy <\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Small- and wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">X-ray reflectivity (XRR)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Rheology<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Physisorption Analyzer<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Fluorescence spectroscopy<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">UV\/VIS spectroscopy<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Spectroscopic ellipsometry<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Contact angle goniometry (wetting measurements)<\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Force tensiometer<\/div><\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-panel panel-default panel-3287b3979ade468b0 fusion-toggle-has-divider\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h4 class=\"panel-title toggle\" id=\"toggle_3287b3979ade468b0\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"3287b3979ade468b0\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-parent=\"#accordion-4922-1\" data-target=\"#3287b3979ade468b0\" href=\"#3287b3979ade468b0\"><span class=\"fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><i class=\"fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-toggle-heading\">Collaboration Opportunities<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div><div id=\"3287b3979ade468b0\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"toggle_3287b3979ade468b0\"><div class=\"panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix\">The Soft Matter Laboratory is interested in undertaking industrial projects with a clear focus on translating \u201cknow-how\u201d, intellectual property and innovation into products and services to yield economic benefit. At present collaboration opportunities with industry\u00a0can be seized in\u00a0the following\u00a0ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><ul style=\"--awb-size:13px;--awb-line-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-width:22.1px;--awb-icon-height:22.1px;--awb-icon-margin:9.1px;--awb-content-margin:31.2px;--awb-circlecolor:#1a80b6;--awb-circle-yes-font-size:11.44px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-3 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Consortia:<\/strong> Industry consortia programmes draw upon the technical expertise of the Soft Matter Laboratory to help the local industry move up the value chain. Such programmes encompass direct basic and applied R&amp;amp;D across different research themes in our laboratory.<\/div><\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Joint Research:<\/strong> Joint research programmes are collaborations and\/or alliances between a private company and the Soft Matter Laboratory that help to enhance the technology edge of the company by the technology transfer from our lab. Such partnerships represent a potentially fruitful situation for industry to gain new insights and promote the advancement of their technology as well as the development of new protocols and techniques.<\/div><\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Lab-in- Lab:\u00a0<\/strong> The Lab-in- Lab is initiative in which the Soft Matter Laboratory provides partners with infrastructure and framework at an early stage of their research &amp;amp; development projects. This initiative has the unique advantage of implementing their R&amp;amp;D plans under very favorable<br \/>\nconditions, to allow SMEs to test R&amp;D programmes before making major capital investments. <\/div><\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Industrial Fellows:<\/strong> This is a formal program whereby industrial scientists and technicians can spend significant time in our laboratory getting training in different areas of expertise (polymer science, colloidal chemistry, materials chemistry, surface chemistry, materials characterization, etc). <\/div><\/li>\n<li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-yes\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa fa-check\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Short courses:<\/strong> We provide short courses and training for industrial partners with the participation of skilled, qualified and experienced scientists from our laboratory. You can get expert training in your areas of interest (polymer science, colloidal chemistry, materials chemistry, surface chemistry, materials characterization, etc). We can even tailor our courses to your specific requirements, across any area of expertise concerning soft matter research. <\/div><\/li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4922\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softmatter.quimica.unlp.edu.ar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}