For Industry
The PFPC provides wide ranging scientific and engineering services to industry from short term contracts through to longer term collaborative research programs.
The Centre has highly skilled scientists and engineers with extensive expertise in providing innovative solutions to interfacial science and engineering problems experienced by a range of industries, particularly:
- Environmental waste management
- Water treatment
- Mineral processing
- Food processing
- Chemical processing
- Pharmaceuticals
- Biomaterials
- Nanotechnology
- Ceramics
The Centre has well-equipped research facilities that enables comprehensive analysis of the interfacial properties of particulate fluids and advanced materials. Characterization services available include microscopy studies, surface analysis, spectroscopic analysis and rheological characterization.