Fractal
Systems, Inc. sponsors an annual seminar on the subject of ICPs and their
applications and is held at a different location each year. The seminar
consists of tutorial lectures on the subject the first day, followed by
one-hour lectures the next two days. Details can be found at www.conductivepolymers.com
Fractal
Systems, Inc. provides consulting in different areas revolving around
electronic polymers and applications. This type of service includes on-site
visits, experiments and industrial R&D contracts.
With funding
coming mostly from SBIR contracts, Fractal Systems, Inc. is actively developing
materials and electronic and electrochemical devices. Such efforts are being
pursued in conjunction with industry for commercialization of our technologies.
Material Characterization
With the equipment available at Fractal Systems, Inc., we can offer characterization services such as:
1) FTIR (Perkin Elmer Spectrum One)
2) UV-visible-Near IR (Carey 50 Spectrophotometer)
3) Atomic force microscopy (Quesant Instrument Corp.)
4) Optical microscope (World Precision Instruments-up to 1000x)
5) Electrochemistry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (CH Instruments and EG&G potentiostats/galvanostats)
6) Conductivity measurements (2- or 4-probe measurements)
7) Electromagnet (up to 16 KGauss) with two-inch poles (Alpha Magnetics)
8) High resolution turbo sputtering system for thin coatings of metals
9) Custom Molecular Biology Services: plasmid DNA purification, restriction analysis, custom subcloning in plasmid vectors, DNA and protein gel electrophoresis
10) Bench space
with chemical hoods available for use.