Selected User Profiles

Today, the NanoTest™ System is used throughout the world for quantitative nano-scale materials characterisation. The Micro Materials NanoTest and MicroTest systems are in use in over 200 sites worldwide, and here at Micro Materials we pride ourselves on our close working relationship with our customers.

The following are a small selection of our users, and a brief account of the work they carry out with their NanoTest or MicroTest system. 

If you would like your institute to feature here, please contact us

The Composites and Coatings Group in the Gordon Laboratory at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

The Materials Science and Metallurgy Department of Cambridge University is situated in the heart of Cambridge, including part of the old Cavendish Laboratory.  With an academic staff of about 30, 100 research fellows and 140 PhD students, the Department has been very successful in promoting academic and technological advances with many key industrial partners.

The Composites and Coatings Group is headed by Professor Bill Clyne, who is also the Director of the Gordon Laboratory.  

The most recents projects being undertaken with the two MML NanoTest^TM/ MicroTest^TM systems located in the Gordon Laboratory are: 

Nanoindentation over a wide range of temperatures

This project involves the installation of a combined NanoTest^TM/MicroTest^TM system in a vacuum chamber, in order to carry out high and low temperature testing under vacuum or in an inert atmosphere. 

Nano and Micro-impact studies

 The unique pendulum design of the MML NanoTest^TM allows impact testing to be carried out over a range of conditions.   A current project is focussed on technical and modelling innovations designed to obtain information about material response at high strain rates and during repeated mechanical loading.

For further details of these projects, and other ongoing research activities at the Gordon Laboratory, go to the Group web-page - http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/mmc and click on “Research” or “Group Equipment”.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

The Laboratory for Material Chemomechanics, led by Prof Krystyn Van Vliet of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, develops experimental and computational approaches toward the understanding of a key phenomenon in active materials: coupling between the mechanical and structural/functional states.

Prof Van Vliet's group have worked closely with Micro Materials to pioneer some novel testing techniques, including nanoindentaion in liquids and nano-impact measurements on polymers.

For further details please contact Krystyn Van Vilet