ELDICO Scientific – the Electron Diffraction Company – is a Swiss instruments, systems and service company founded 2019 and is located in Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area AG in Allschwil. Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area AG is a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the life sciences and healthcare sectors.
ELDICO develops, produces and sells electron diffractometers for the analysis of solid compounds enabling industrial and scientific researchers to characterise hitherto unmeasurable nano-crystalline systems. So far conventional methods (X-ray) fail because they require bigger crystal sizes, which are often difficult or even impossible to produce.
The proof of concept was achieved in 2018 (ETH Zurich, C-CINA Basel) on scientifically and industrially relevant samples. The results published (Angewandte Chemie, International Edition) gained significant attention and were nominated for “Breakthrough of the Year 2018” by SCIENCE, a leading science magazine.
For us, shaping the future of crystallography means we support academic and industrial scientists in their quest to obtain relevant structural information faster, with better quality and at lower cost.
For over 100 years, crystallographers all over the world have been working to decipher the atomic structures of compounds and thus make them available for further processing in the form of drugs, agrochemical substances, and special chemicals or novel materials. In doing so, they have drawn on the experience of generations, relying on various methods, expertise and experience built up over many years.
ELDICO provides crystallography with the instruments it needs to be ahead of its time. We build electron diffractometers that enable the crystallographer to directly identify previously unsolvable structures from nanocrystalline material. Information is obtained from substances that are presently difficult or impossible to crystallize or which, due to their nature and size, cannot be crystallized by conventional, albeit proven, methods. The application of electron diffraction in crystallography is a radical innovation. It opens up perspectives for preparative chemistry and pharmacy, electrochemistry, agrochemistry and specialty chemistry that were unimaginable until recently. In this way, crystallographers can produce important structural information faster, with better quality and at lower cost. This makes it possible to test new substances for their commercial potential and bring them to market more efficiently. These substances, in turn, can effectively be put to the service of mankind more quickly in the form of safe medicines, better fertilizers, more effective energy sources and novel materials.
Our company is based in Alschwill, Switzerland, at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. The first device has been set up in Basel, where we have established our Experience Center to further promote the potential of electron diffraction. The members of our academic-industrial consortium benefit from electron diffraction cutting-edge technology, at very competitive prices per measurement. Drop us a line to find out more!
ELDICO runs a manufacturing center at the premises of its partner Samuel Werder AG Feinwerktechnik, a a state-of-the-art facility for precision production, making it the perfect environment for the final assembly and testing of the ground breaking ELDICO ED-1.
ELDICO’s Customer Experience Center is located in Basel, one of the globally leading hubs of pharmaceutical research, just 20 minutes away from the international airport.
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