Partnership with the Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (LEPA-EPFL) to Develop and Promote Soft Probe Technology for Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)

OAK RIDGE, TN, USA — AMETEK Scientific Instruments, a unit of AMETEK, Inc., has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (LEPA-EPFL) of Switzerland to promote, develop and sell the laboratory’s soft probe technology for scanning electrochemical systems (SECM).

A team from the laboratory, headed by Prof Hubert Girault, will work closely with AMETEK engineers to integrate a range of probe technologies to address a broad spectrum of material test requirements, including electrodes and arrays for testing coatings that prevent corrosion, biological tissue studies, electrochemical catalysts screening, and more.

Soft probe technology overcomes a number of well-known limita