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Materials Science

Seeing the Chloride Front: Why Concrete Service-Life Assessments Need to Navigate Around Aggregate

See how microXRF maps chloride penetration in concrete cores, separates cement paste from aggregate, and improves data used in structural service-life assessments.

Materials Science
Geology & Critical Minerals

Atlas in Action: Mapping the Chemistry of 2.7-Billion-Year-Old Komatiitic Basalts

See how USGS researchers used Atlas M microXRF to map Archean spinifex textures, interpret komatiitic basalt petrogenesis, and evaluate mineral potential.

Geology & Critical Minerals
Materials Science

What Is Really Inside a Brake Pad? Mapping the Chemistry Behind Friction, Wear, and Performance

Explore the complex composition of brake pads and see how microXRF elemental mapping reveals Fe, Cu, Ba, Ti, Zn, Zr and other friction materials.

Materials Science
Life Science

Atlas in Action: Discovering Ferns That Accumulate Rare Earth Elements

Discover how microXRF mapping of herbarium ferns revealed rare earth element distribution and supported the identification of new hyperaccumulator taxa.

Life Science
Geology & Critical Minerals

Atlas in Action – MicroXRF Reveals Hidden Anatomy in a Cretaceous Coleoid

See how Atlas X microXRF mapping revealed hidden anatomical structures in the Late Cretaceous coleoid Dorateuthis syriaca.

Geology & Critical Minerals
Company News

July Employee Spotlight

This month, we’re spotlighting Adan Flores, Production and Field Service Engineer at IXRF Systems. Adan helps manufacture, integrate, and support our advanced microXRF spectrometers while serving as an important…

Company News
Comparisons

MicroXRF vs. LIBS – Choosing the Right Analytical Strategy for the Critical Minerals Era

Compare microXRF vs. LIBS for critical minerals analysis and learn why non-destructive elemental mapping reveals mineral context.

Comparisons
Life Science

Customer Research Spotlight – University of Memphis Advances Microplastic Detection with MicroXRF

University of Memphis researchers explore microXRF for microplastic detection, revealing new insights into particle identification and elemental mapping.

Life Science
Geology & Critical Minerals

Seeing the Invisible—On Earth and Beyond: How MicroXRF is Rewriting Volcanic and Planetary Narratives

Discover how high-resolution microXRF mapping with the Atlas Apex M reveals flow banding, elemental distribution, and alteration processes in volcanic lava flank samples.

Geology & Critical Minerals
Comparisons

MicroXRF vs SEM-EDS for Geological and Petrological Analysis: Why Sensitivity and Scale Matter

MicroXRF delivers lower detection limits and large-area elemental mapping beyond SEM-EDS capabilities. Learn why geoscience labs are integrating it.

Comparisons
Product

MicroXRF Throughput vs Data Quality: How to Prevent Spectral Distortion at High Count Rates

Learn why microXRF speed can reduce spectral quality at high count rates—and how detector architecture and electronics maintain trustworthy data at throughput.

Product
Materials Science

Advancing Aerospace Materials Confidence with MicroXRF

The Atlas Apex MicroXRF delivers high-resolution, non-destructive elemental analysis for aerospace materials, improving QA/QC, supplier verification, and materials confidence.

Materials Science

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