Micro Materials Ltd

Micro Materials Ltd has been supplying high quality nano-mechanical test instruments (nanoindenter and microindenter) to industry and academia since 1988. The company’s instruments offer the market’s most complete range of nano-scale mechanical tests, delivered in the industry’s widest variety of simulated environmental conditions including hot, cold, humid and liquid atmospheres. The company’s flagship instrument – the NanoTest™ Vantage - is designed to allow customers to carry out all their tests on one flexible, user-friendly platform. The Vantage offers the world’s leading high temperature nano-indentation system, nano-fretting, nano-scratch and wear tests and patented high strain rate impact technique. In detail, the capabilities of the NanoTest Vantage include: • Nanoindentation (both quasi-static and dynamic) • Nano-impact and fatigue • Nano-scratch and wear • Nano-fretting • Microindentation • Micro-scratch • High temperature nanoindentation, nanoscratch and nanoimpact to 850 ºC • Low temperature nanoindentation and nanoscratch to -20 ºC • Liquid cell • Humidity unit Recently Micro Materials has set an industry precedent with the launch of the NanoTest Xtreme. This is the world’s first commercial system for carrying out high (and low) temperature nanoindentation measurements under vacuum conditions. The Company is known for its dynamic development programme that has led to industry firsts like the high temperature stage and the impact testing module. The focus of the developments is on providing the researcher with a comprehensive and versatile instrument that allows a wide range of real world operating conditions to be simulated in a practical way. Based in the UK, Micro Materials Ltd also houses a testing laboratory and demonstration suite. You are welcome to visit the demonstration suite to gain a full appreciation of the range of techniques and test conditions that are available on the NanoTest Vantage.