By Speciality Fibres and Materials Ltd
SFM have a wide range of analytical techniques available to support your research and development project. Our laboratory is fully equipped for testing wound dressings and includes elemental analysis for measuring the silver content and trace elements. We also have the capability to perform scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) and atomic force microscopy to obtain detailed images of the surfaces of fibres. Antimicrobial and antibiofilm performance is a vital part of the clinician’s armoury in managing chronic wounds. SFM can perform a wide range of testing to understand how your antimicrobial agent performs from minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) studies using robotic high throughput screening, zone of inhibition and shake flask to the US FDA’s preferred modified AATCC-100 method. SFM have a regulatory team that is second to none and, working with the R&D team, we can offer a full range of testing to support your product development from concept to market. In the recent past we have supported customers with: - Antimicrobial performance evaluation - Biocompatibility testing - Chemical characterization - Materials characterization - Performance testing
