Finden ltd

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Helping businesses and organisations across sectors to develop and improve their products.

Category

  • SMEs

Location

  • OX11 0QX
  • Harwell
  • United Kingdom

Activity

  • Catalysis, Pharma, Automotive, Energy Materials

Participation goals

Disseminate our skills and capabilities
Generate new business (commissioned research)
Look for new partners and collaborators

Expert in neutron/synchrotron techniques

Participant

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Antony VAMVAKEROS

Research Scientist at Finden ltd.

Landmarks

  • Turnover : < 2 M€
  • Staff : 0 - 9
  • 5D diffraction imaging of a catalytic bed. Vamvakeros et al. Nature Comm 9, 4751 (2018)
  • Operando diffraction Imaging of an OCM catalyst. Matras et al. J. Phys. Chem C. 123, 1751 (2019)
  • Understanding chemistry in Rembrandt's Homer. Price et al. Chem Comm. 10.1039/C8CC09705D (2019)

Group / Member of

Objectives

Needs

  • Collaborative, pre-competitive research
  • Funding schemes
  • Partnership in EU and national funded projects

Offer

  • Collaborative, pre-competitive research
  • Formulation optimisation
  • Investigations for encapsulation (product, process)
  • Nano/microstructure of materials and its evolution
  • NDT for a product, device
  • Synchrotron characterisation techniques

Specific information on your offers

We provide conventional and advanced characterisation and expert analysis. We have a track record of helping businesses / organisations develop new technology and improve existing products based on the physical and chemical insight we provide. This has covered many materials across different sectors including batteries, fuel cells, pharmaceutical products, industrial catalysts, automotive catalysts, paints and coatings (see our website for a few exemplars - finden.co.uk).

Skills and application fields

Industrial sectors
  • Biotech and Pharma
  • Drug-screening
  • Chemicals
  • Specialty chemicals
  • Transformation of raw materials
  • Functional materials
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Agrofuels, synthetic fuels
  • Green chemistry
  • Cater, air, effluent treatment
  • Renewable energies
  • Biomass, biogas
  • Alternative fuels
  • Fossil energies
  • Refining
  • Construction, building and civil engineering
  • Material recycling
  • Soil
Characterisation techniques using large instruments
  • Small angle neutron/X-rays scattering
  • Small angle neutron/X-rays scattering
  • Spectroscopy techniques
  • Spectroscopy techniques
  • Diffraction (neutrons / X-rays)
  • Diffraction (neutrons / X-rays)
  • Neutron and X-rays imaging
  • Neutron and X-rays imaging
  • Elemental analysis
  • Elemental analysis
Scientific and technical specialities
  • Chemistry
  • Specialty chemicals
  • Physio-chemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Inorganic and mineralogical chemistry
  • Specialty fields
  • Formulation
  • Catalysis and catalysts
  • Nanoparticles

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