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Analysis, Characterisation, and Processing Laboratory (LACaMI)

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X-ray diffractometer (BRUKER D8 Advanced)     Differential scanning calorimeter (NETZSCH STA449F3)     Atomiser (ARCAST)      Inductively coupled plasma ICP/OES AGILENT 5100      3D Printer (3D System PROX200)

Technical and scientific expertise

  • Chemical and metallographic analysis of materials
  • Material processing: rolling, coatings, friction
  • Friction stir welding
  • 3D metal printing
  • Measurement of thermal properties: Seebeck coefficient, conductivity
  • Sample machining: EDM

Main equipment

  • Optical and electronic microscopes (EBSD, EDS)
  • 3D printers
  • Metal atomisers
  • X-ray diffractometer
  • Inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (ICP)
  • IR C/S analyser
  • Casting furnace
  • Tomographs

Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.

Applications

  • Characterisation/testing/analysis by qualified personnel
  • Chemical analysis of solids, liquids, gases in materials and chemical processes
  • Analysis of failure mechanisms
  • Processing of metallic materials, from melting to atomisation, through 3D printing and heat treatment
  • Characterisation from nm to mm using microscopy and tomography

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

  • 11 June 2024
    Materials seen on a nanometer scale: LACAMI acquires a new high-resolution transmission electron microscope
    A millimeter is already small.
  • 21 November 2023
    "iMMC in pictures": more art within the platforms!
    Many technologies provide images that, over and above what they reveal at a scientific level, incite us to dream. Pictures captured using microscopes, imaging technologies or other scientific means -
  • 16 March 2023
    Innovate in your company with the technology platforms of UCLouvain
    Boost innovation in your company with the technology platforms of UCLouvain Did you know? Technology platforms give you access to expertise, equipment and infrastructures at the cutting edge of tec
  • 10 February 2023
    Open Educational Resources : CREDEM, LACaMi and LEMSC are actively involved !
    In addition to Research and Service to society, technology platforms are playing an important role in the education of students interested in "STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics",
  • 1 December 2022
    Composites: a world first to measure deformations at the nanoscale !
    Digital image correlation (DIC) allows 2D mapping of the deformations occurring in a material, by tracking the displacements of a speckle pattern deposited on the specimen surface. The spatial resolu
  • 19 August 2022
    "Innovation Vouchers" : the LACaMi and LAS&O platforms have just been agreed by Innoviris!
    The "Innovation vouchers" initiative is a financial support of INNOVIRIS to SMEs in the Brussels-Capital Region for limited technical support performed in a agreed research centre. Do you manage a SM
  • 16 March 2022
    Microtomography: a non-destructive technique for a 3D image of an object
    At the beginning of 2022, the LACaMi platform welcomes a new characterisation technique, X-ray microtomography, thanks to support from the FEDER. Who among us has not had to "take an X-ray" to make s