Your Partner in Dispersion Analysis and Characterization
At Applied Dispersions, we bridge the gap between complex science and real-world results. We don't just hand you raw data; we explain what the numbers mean so you can innovate faster, reduce costs, and manufacture more efficiently.
Whether you have a proven formulation that just needs reliable shelf-life testing, or a complex system failure that requires deep fundamental investigation, we provide the exact level of support you need.
Most dispersion problems are invisible until they aren't.
A product that looks fine on day one separates in the warehouse. An emulsion that passed every check creams in the field. A competitor's version holds and yours doesn't, and no one can say why. The measurements that answer these questions exist — but they require instruments most companies don't own and interpretation most contract labs don't provide.
Four ways we answer the question.
Stability & shelf-life
Accelerated stability analysis by analytical centrifugation — we rank formulations, predict shelf-life, benchmark against competitors, and find the mechanism when something fails.
Rheology & flow
How your product pours, pumps, sprays, and holds its structure — flow curves and viscosity profiles, yield point determination, and oscillatory tests that show whether a formulation has the structure to keep particles suspended or is destined to settle.
Particle size & charge
Particle size distribution and zeta potential, with the context to know whether a number is good news or a warning.
Interfacial & foam
Dynamic surface and interfacial tension, interfacial rheology, and foam behavior — the surface science behind why dispersions form, hold, or collapse.
Anyone can send you a chart. The value is in knowing what it means.
Every result we deliver comes with a plain-language read: what the data say, why, and what to do about it. Behind that read is a PhD in colloid chemistry and three decades of dispersion analysis across specialty chemicals, coatings, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and nanomaterials.
Building this capability in-house means an instrument you'll use a few times a year, a technician to run it, and a specialist to interpret it. Sending us the work costs a fraction of that — with the interpretation included.
National service. Ship from anywhere.
Samples ship in from anywhere in the U.S.; reports are delivered electronically. Confidential by default; NDA on request.