Immagine
SAX (Strumentazioni avanzate per sistemi complessi - Advanced instrumentation for complex systems) is an innovative regional and national instrument pool for the study of materials and systems through electron microscopy and X-ray techniques.
Infrastructure coordinator: University of Turin.
Main services
- Material quality control
- Analytical determinations on materials
- Failure analysis
- Identification of particulate contaminants
- Solving crystal structures
- Analysis of mineralogical phases, residual stress, grain size
- Metallographic analyses
- Elemental analysis of surfaces and profiles of sub-superficial chemical composition
- High-resolution industrial tomography
- Diffractometry and tomographic analyses of cultural heritage
Equipment
- Scanning electron microscopy
Access
- Use by external users assisted by internal technical staff (provided by the University of Turin).
Location
University of Turin:
- Interdepartmental Centre for Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS)
- Via Quarello 15/A, Turin
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Via Valperga Caluso 35, Turin
- Department of Chemistry
- Via Pietro Giuria 7, Turin
Coordinator
Paolo Fino, DISAT- Department of Applied Science and Technology