PIMAS is a Network of Infrastructure (NoI) of the KIC-Raw Material offering compositional and structural characterization services of minerals, metals, and other, based on laser, X-ray, optoelectronic, and acoustic techniques. At the same time, it also provides consulting services on related technological and software developments.
The NoI involves excellence research and management organizations, that exploit their know-how on advanced portable and laboratory techniques allowing to achieve real-time compositional and structural information without any sample preparation. Most of the analytical approaches used drastically cut times and costs of the material characterization with respect to traditional investigations and can be applied in mining sites and processing lines.
Partners
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Coordinator)
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
- ART-ER S. cons. p.a. (ART-ER)
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer)
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
- Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN)
- Laboratorio di Micro e Submicro Tecnologie abilitanti dell'Emilia-Romagna (MIST E-R)
