My oldest daughter, Kirsten, decided that it would be good for Anderson Materials Evaluation, Inc. to have a more up-to-date website. She and her friend Ike transferred much of the content of our old website into the new format, which has a much more apparent navigation system and allows the reader to see much more readily how much information is available on our website. At my request, she chose a system which would make it much easier for me to update and to add to the website. Consequently, it is now published in WordPress. The AME website address is still www.andersonmaterials.com
I have added to the content considerably already. More additions will be coming over the next few months with some regularity. There are presently 75 webpages and documents describing the work and capabilities of our laboratory.
Suggestions on additions or comments on the present content are most welcome. I want to comment that illustrative examples are not necessarily indicative of the range of materials problems we work on due to the need to keep our customer's proprietary information strictly confidential. As a result, some illustrative examples of the information provided by an analytical technique were performed by us on our own materials rather than on a customer's materials. Many examples on natural mined minerals and on gemstones are present simply because they give away no information belonging to our customers. The information is simply that of the geology of the Earth, which is complex and does provide interesting analytical challenges for such techniques as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS / ESCA). While we do periodically analyze minerals, we do not do such analyses in the proportion in which they appear on the website.
Where an illustration uses a material which was analyzed for a customer, we do not name the customer or the application in most cases. In many cases, we actually share very little about the material and how it was processed. The information revealed in the illustration is actually minimal, but indicative of at least some characterization capability at AME or of the types of problems we investigate here. There is no case in which customer proprietary information is given up. Whether we sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with a customer or not, we make every effort to protect the intellectual property of our customers.
Charles R. Anderson, Ph. D.
