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Lorad Develops an Efficient Combustion Process for Gadolinium Aluminate Nano-Powder

500g of Gadolinium Aluminate Powder

Lorad scientists have developed a novel combustion synthesis for producing phase-pure Gadolinium Aluminate nano-powder.

  • Posted 3 years ago and updated 3 years ago Product News

New Process for Higher Efficiency Terbium Doped Gadolinium Oxysulfide

Glass bottle of Terbium doped Gadolinium Oxysulfide

Lorad has developed a new process for manufacturing Terbium doped Gadolinium Oxysulfide powder with an increased excitation spectrum for a variety of x-ray imaging applications.

  • Posted 6 years ago and updated 4 years ago Product News

Speciality in Sulfide Syntheses

Lorad has expanded its production capabilities for the manufacture of custom synthesized inorganic sulfides into the multi-ton range. We now offer a larger variety of sulfide products, that along with our expertise in sulfide production, can deliver a precise purity, stoichiometry, and particle size for our customer’s applications.

  • Posted 6 years ago and updated 5 years ago Company News

New Process for Nano-Powder Production

Lorad is a leader in the development and manufacture of advanced inorganic materials. Our strength lies in our ability to develop unique and cost-effective processes for batch or continuous manufacture of less common or difficult to make materials. Our interest and passion for the synthesis of nano-materials is a natural extension of our core interest in materials synthesis and process development. To this end, Lorad scientists have focused on the research and development of a cost-effective platform for the commercial manufacture of nano-powder products.

  • Posted 7 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Lithium Sulfide Production

Kilograms of Lithium Sulfide in jars

Lorad Chemical is the most significant and experienced manufacturer of premium quality Lithium Sulfide in the world. Our product is used in advanced battery and catalyst applications.

  • Posted 7 years ago and updated 5 years ago Product News

Innovative Chemistry Applied to Materials Science

Lorad was established in 1998. Since then, Lorad has become a recognized leader in the research, development, and manufacture of specialty inorganic materials for many advanced science applications. We custom synthesize materials and develop novel, cost-effective manufacturing processes for our products. From research and development to pilot production, all the way through commercialization, we can apply the appropriate chemistry, tools, and technology to assist you.

  • Posted 8 years ago and updated 3 years ago Company News

New Process for Barium Magnesium Tantalate

XRD pattern for Barium Magnesium Tantalate powder

Perovskites of the type Ba(A1/3B2/3)O3 where A = Mg, Zn and B = Ta, Nb, have created significant interest related to their excellent microwave dielectric properties. Of this group, Barium Magnesium Tantalate has generated considerable interest as a near ideal material for dielectric resonator applications due to its high dielectric constant, unloaded quality factor, and its very low resonant frequency temperature dependence.

  • Posted 9 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Zinc Sulfide Phosphors for Neutron Detection

Zinc Sulfide doped with Silver

Lorad scientists have developed an efficient silver activated zinc sulfide phosphor for application in neutron detection devices.

  • Posted 9 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Tantalum Oxide Tablets for High Quality Coatings

Tantalum Oxide Tablets

Lorad can now offer high quality, US manufactured, Tantalum oxide tablets for thin – film optical coating applications. Bulk manufacturing of Tantalum oxide Tablets by Lorad allows us to maintain a very competitive market position, and this is passed on to our customers.

  • Posted 10 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Lorad scales up Silicon Dioxide Granules Manufacturing

Silicon Dioxide granules

As a result of increased demand, Lorad can now announce a scale-up in its manufacturing operation for its premium grade high purity optical coating silicon dioxide granules. Silicon dioxide is an important thin-film optical coating material.  It is a low refractive index material. It is hard, and chemically and environmentally durable.

  • Posted 10 years ago and updated 6 years ago Company News

Lorad Offers an Expanding Selection of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials

Lorad has significant expertise in synthesizing fuel cell nano-powders and can now supply our growing catalog of materials in research and development quantities with the option to scale-up to commercial quantities on demand.

  • Posted 11 years ago and updated 3 years ago Product News

Lorad Develops Advanced Security Phosphors With Unique Spectral Signatures

Lorad Security Phosphor diagram

Lorad develops unique customized solutions to security issues through the synthesis of advanced phosphor materials. These luminescent materials can be interrogated and respond with unique spectral signatures created exclusively for each client.

  • Posted 11 years ago and updated 5 years ago Product News

Phosphor for Blue LED to White Light Conversion

Emission spectrum for YAG:Ce

Lorad scientists have developed a modified cerium doped YAG phosphor that is an excellent candidate for the conversion of a 465nm emitting Blue LED to emit white light. Shown below, is a typical emission spectrum of the modified YAG when excited by 465nm emitting Blue LED.

  • Posted 11 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Vanadium Dioxide Nano-Powders

Vanadium oxides have been demonstrated to have many interesting and useful applications as battery cathode materials, (V6013, Ag2V4O11, LiV3O8 etc…all available from Lorad), in catalysis, sensors for gas detection, and in thin-film form in electro-optical devices.

  • Posted 12 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

New Process for Lanthanum Strontium Manganite

Lanthanum Strontium Manganite under SEM

The Lorad Chemical Corporation is pleased to annouce the availability of a custom Lanthanum Strontium Manganite product available for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, (SOFC) applications. The Lorad Lanthanum Strontium Manganite Powder process is designed to make available a premium quality, cost competitive material for industrial applications.

  • Posted 12 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

New Process for High Quality Silver Vanadium Oxide

Silver Vanadium Oxide under SEM

Silver vanadium oxide, (SVO) is used as a cathode material in high rate implantable cardiac defibrillator batteries. Typically, a ceramic process is used to manufacture this material. This involves grinding and blending either Silver oxide or Silver nitrate with a highly toxic Vanadium source, usually Vanadium pentoxide.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Lorad Develops a New Method for the Synthesis of Zinc Sulfide Nano-Powders

Zinc Sulfide nano-powder under SEM

Lorad scientists have developed a new method for the synthesis of zinc sulfide powders. This new process can generate zinc sulfide powders on a continuous basis. Initial materials in the 100nm - 150nm range are available in multi-kilogram quantities.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 4 years ago Product News

New Process for Strontium Sulfide Phosphor

Lorad Chemical is pleased to announce that we can now offer a superior Strontium Sulfide product for phosphor applications, including x-ray screens.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Ytterbium Aluminum Garnet Powders & Nano-Powders

XRD pattern for Ytterbium Aluminum Garnet

Custom synthesized ytterbium aluminum garnet, YbAG can now be made available in research and initial commercial quantities.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Scaling up Tin Sulfide Production

XRD pattern for Tin Sulfide

Tin sulfide is available in pure bulk granular form as a source material for the thermal evaporation of photovoltaic thin films.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Intense Green Strontium Thiogallate Phosphor for LED Applications

Strontium Thiogallate Emission Wavelength Spectrum

In keeping with the planned expansion of our range of phosphor materials, we are now able to offer commercial quantities, (multi-kg units) of an efficient europium activated strontium thiogallate phosphor. 

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Improved Manufacturing of Lithium Sulfide

XRD pattern for Lithium Sulfide

Lorad is the world leader in the manufacturing of high quality Lithium Sulfide powder for use in advanced lithium-ion battery applications. Lorad's Lithium Sulfide powder is typically prepared as a 99.9% (metals basis) pure -200 mesh powder.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 6 years ago Product News

Nano-Structured Synthetic Iron Disulfide

XRD pattern for Iron Disulfide

Lorad continues to develop and offer commercial sulfide products for advanced battery applications. Now, in addition to our high performance cobalt disulfide and enhanced disulfide products, we can offer two nano-structured iron disulfide powders.

  • Posted 13 years ago and updated 3 years ago Product News