With Anton Paar instruments the surfaces of filters, membranes, coatings, thin films, and functionalized layers can be investigated on the macro, micro, and nano scale. Users can determine parameters including hardness and elastic modulus to creep, fatigue, stress-strain, wear rate, lubrication, and zeta potential, specific surface area and pore sizes among others.

Researchers concerned with the development and production of new materials as well as those concerned with the modification and optimization of material properties and production processes take advantage of different technologies, such as:

• Indentation testing
• Scratch testing
• Tribometry
• Coating thickness testing
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
• Surface charge analysis
• Specific Surface area
• Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) | Grazing-incidence SAXS (GISAXS)
• Pore sizes and their distribution

This overview presentation will shed light on exemplarily materials such as polymeric membranes and filters for waste water treatment.