Rheology and Extrusion/Compounding for Material Characterization

Playing a crucial role in enhancing the value of materials in almost any industry

Thermo Fisher Scientific understands your need to gain precise control over material shape, texture, and performance characteristics, which leads to innovative materials, improved functionality, cost-effectiveness, and overall product quality.

Confident material characterization

Thermo Scientific extrusion and rheology solutions offer a full range of instruments to help scientists make confident decisions. Our comprehensive portfolio of viscometers and rheometers supports reliable measurement of rheological properties, aiding in tasks from predicting cosmetic shelf-life to improving food texture to determining polymer viscoelasticity. Additionally, our leading lab-scale extruder and compounder solutions streamline material development across industries like polymer, pharma, cosmetics and batteries. Our equipment enables scientists to start their challenging research with just a few grams and progress to pilot scale for fast and reliable results.

 

Featured Applications

Our range of cutting-edge rheology and extrusion products are designed to help you address challenges in material development, processing, and manufacturing where texture and taste are critical to success.

Material development

Extruders and torque rheometers are standard tools for mixing, compounding, and processing of materials in a number of areas including polymers, pharmaceuticals, and food production.

Drug formulation & manufacturing

Meet the challenges in pharmaceuticals of API solubility and processing stability, taste-masking, enterics, and specialized dosage forms.

Food rheology & extrusion

Create, process and monitor food products to have ideal texture, shape, mouthfeel, processability, shelf life and more.

Battery manufacturing

Help ensure efficient screen-printing process and develop new formulations while helping to optimize the manufacturing processes to make batteries safer, more powerful, longer lasting, and more cost-effective.

Measurement of viscosity and rheological properties

From building materials, paints, and coatings to pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and polymers, an accurate understanding of the rheological properties is critical when new products are developed, and the quality control of existing formulations is managed.

Support & services

All-you-need training and service for our viscometers, rheometers, torque rheometers, extruders and mixers.

For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.