Chemistry Clinic

Working with us 

Designed as a resource for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and larger companies, the Chemistry Clinic welcomes access to our exceptional facilities, expert advice and talented student cohort to benefit your project.

We can directly support your project with scientific guidance or assess your current processes and materials for further development. 

An initial FREE consultation helps us identify the needs of your project. Following consultation, appropriate methods and techniques are carried out to reach project deliverables. For longer term projects and collaborations, a timeline and contract are put in place to protect your intellectual property and agreed upon provisions. Open communication is nurtured between the Chemistry Clinic and you -the industrial partner- while work is conducted.

Fingerprint analysis in laboratory

Our services

With direction from a specialist academic relevant to your project, our skilled Masters students will conduct any lab work.

Areas of expertise

  • materials and nanochemistry
  • analytical chemistry
  • chemical biology
  • forensic science
  • inorganic synthesis
  • organic synthesis
  • physical chemistry
  • applied chemistry

 Available techniques

  • Spectroscopy 
  • Elemental analysis
  • Thermal analysis
  • Polymeric instrumentation

Recent projects we've consulted on using these areas of expertise include: 

  • developing quality control methodologies for an organic products based company 
  • understanding a newly developed product's capability in the current market for use in a log cabin manufacturing company
  • evaluation of new materials, small-scale compounding and thermal analysis for a leading global producer of polyester film
Chemistry students working in a laboratory

Commercial analysis

As part of one of the best equipped science faculties in the UK, our labs and high quality instruments can analyse a wide variety of sample types. These services are reliable and competitively priced. If you need samples tested on an ongoing basis or periodically throughout the year, our services are an ideal fit.

In some circumstances, samples can be imported for analysis and testing free of duty and VAT. For more information, please review HMRC Notice 374.