Cambridge Polymer Group
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Overview
Cambridge Polymer Group, Inc. ("CPG") is a contract research laboratory that specializes in providing polymeric materials services for clients worldwide. Headquartered in Boston, MA, our researchers are experts in a broad range of scientific fields, including chemical, electrical, biomedical and mechanical engineering, materials science, and biology. For over 15 years, we have provided a single source solution for polymeric research.
CPG's core competencies include property enhancement, test methodology development, radiation chemistry, rheology, failure analysis and blends formulations. Our work can be found in a range of industries including biomedical, resin manufacturers and processors, consumer products, gels, adhesives, food products, and inks.
The services and products we offer range from full service consultation on material development to providing more traditional testing results. We offer a line of analytical instruments for polymer characterization and can design custom instrumentation for clients.
Our specific expertise includes
- hydrogels
- polymer identification
- trace compound identification
- medical device analysis
- cleanline validation
- formulation development
- root cause analysis
- biopolymers
- accelerated aging
- synthetic tissue models
Standards & Methodologies
A partial set of our analytical equipment is below.
- GC-MS
- Py-GC-MS
- LC-MS (multiple detectors)
- Gel Permeation Chromatography (triple detection and high temperature)
- Shear and Extensional Rheology
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
- Tensile and compression testing
- Impact testing
- Fatigue crack testing
- Small punch
- FTIR
- Raman
- UV-Vis
- Total Organic Carbon
- Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
- Shear and extensional rheometry
- Melt flow index
- Swell Ratio
- Contact Angle
- Particle Size Analysis
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
- Small and Wide Angle X-ray
- Radiopacity
- NMR
- Oxidation Resistance
- Accelerated Aging
- Custom Chemistry
Qualifications, Certifications, Accreditations & Licenses
ISO 9001: 2015
ISO 17025
FDA registered
Registered on the DECRS (Drug Establishments Current Registration Site)
Lab Gallery
Industries Served
- 3D Printing
- Advanced Materials
- Biotechnology
- Dentistry and Dental Products
- Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals
- Essential Oils
- Fats, Oil, and Oilseeds
- Food Additives
- Hydrocarbons
- Lubricants
- Medical Devices
- Medical Implants
- Medical Technology
- Natural Polymers
- Oil and Petroleum
- Organic Polymers
- Orthopaedics
- Packages and Packaging
- Paints, Colorants, and Dyes
- Personal Care Products
- Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
- Polycarbonate
- Polyethylene (PE)
- Polymer
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
- Resins
- Sports and Sporting Goods
- Synthetic Polymers
- Thermoplastics
- Toys
- Waxes
- Wearables
Testing Types
- Abrasion
- Adhesion Strength
- Analytical
- Analytical Chemistry
- Biomaterials
- Biomedical
- Burst
- Caffeine
- Cracking
- Decomposition
- Defect Analysis
- Degradation
- Degradation Products
- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Dynamic
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
- Electron Microscopy
- Electron Microscopy with Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX)
- Elemental Analysis
- Extractables / Leachables
- Failure Investigation | Failure Analysis
- Fatigue
- Flexural Strength
- Formulation
- Formulation Development
- Freezing Point
- Friction
- FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
- GC/MS
- Hardness
- HPLC
- HPLC-UV
- Hydroxyl Value
- Identification
- Impact
- Impurity
- Inclusion
- Loss Modulus (E")
- Medical Research
- Melt Flow Index (MFI)
- Melting Point
- Method Validation
- Molecular Weight
- Morphology
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy NMR
- Optical Microscopy
- Organic Chemistry
- Particle Analysis
- pH
- Pyrolysis
- Qualification
- RAMAN spectroscopy
- Reformulation
- Rheology
- SEM / Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Shear Stress
- Solubility
- Soxhlet Extraction
- Specific Gravity
- Spectrometry
- Spectroscopy
- Structural Chemistry
- Surface Analysis
- Tear strength
- Tensile
- Tension
- TGA
- thernal conductivity
- UV/Vis
- viscoelastic properties
- Viscosity
Publications
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