Particular Sciences Ltd. specialises in technologies for the physical testing of chemicals and of materials in industry & research throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Our mission is to uphold excellence in material characterisation and life sciences technologies and to deliver the highest quality support to customers.           

Sales

Scientific instruments using advanced technologies from the best manufacturers. 

Advice

Ten technical staff with a combined 300 years of relevant experience offer advice on technologies.

Support

Local after-sales support with installations, user training, method support and validation services.

Service

Call or email for help with your analysis, data or results. Book a  service callout, plan a maintenance visit.

Our Technologies
Particle sizing
Laser Diffraction / Dynamic Light Scattering / Image analysis / BARDS / Time of Flight
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Microscopy
Vision, Microscopes, digital images
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Particle counting
Light obscuration, dynamic image analysis, static image analysis
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Pycnometry (material volumes)
Helium Pycnometry, T.A.P density, Envelope volumes and density
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Vapour, moisture, water
Water vapour sorption, DVS, BET, solvent vapour sorption, moisture profiling, BARDS
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inverse Gas Chromatography
Surface Energy, dispersion
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Light scattering technologies
Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Static light scattering (SLS), MALS
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Image analysis
Static image analysis, particle size shape analysis, dynamic image analysis, morphologically driven chemical identification.
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Gas physi-sorption
BET surface area, micropore/mesopore gas isotherms, pore volume and pore distributions, Selective adsorptions, Breakthrough technologies,
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Gas chemi-sorption
Catalysis, coverage, TPO/TPD, surface activity,
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Break-through
Selective adsorption analysis, breakthrough curves
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Process monitoring
PAT tools, Inline/Atline/Online, concentration, size distribution
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Rheology
Viscosity rotational rheology capillary rheology powder rheology micro-rheology, DWS
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Powders
Powder flow, powder density, particle sizes, particle shape, surface energy, surface roughness
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Separations
Size exclusion chromatography / gel permeation chromatography / field flow fractionation technologies / Mol. Wts
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Raman spectroscopy
Raman probes / TeraHertz Raman / Chemical Identification of particulates
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X-ray technologies
X-ray Fluorescence (ED and WD) / X-ray diffraction (desktop and floorstanding
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Tensiometry
Force tensiometry / optical tensiometry / roughness
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Thermal analysis
Differential scanning calorimetry / microcalorimetry
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Our company history
Particular Sciences Ltd formed in 1989 to fill a gap in local infrastructure to support customers requiring advanced material characterisation technologies.

“Particular Sciences Ltd.’s first technology was the groundbreaking laser particle sizing instruments from Malvern Instruments. Our customer base in 1989 was minimal; I worked out of my garage classically! The business developed and grew with the expanding Irish market. Over the years, we added suppliers like Micromeritics, Freeman Technologies and Pion-Inc, broadening the material characterisation profile. Some suppliers like Kaiser Optical and recently Formulaction have gone to other channels, while some like Insitec and Bohlin Instruments merged into our existing supplying companies. New technologies came with acquisitions—for example, Panalytical with X-ray technologies and MicroCal with protein thermal analysis. Now in 2025, we represent 22 leading instrument companies for Material Characterisation. Many of the products are cutting-edge. All have 64-bit software that we could only dream of back in 1989 with our 8-bit computers with floppy disk drives.

Particular Sciences grew from a few staff in 1995 who are with us to this day to 24 employees, and we may add to our dedicated team yet!. Naturally, some valued colleagues left for other careers, and some moved to other countries, and I wish them all the best. We have also seen valued colleagues retire from work, after long and successful careers.

Ireland continues to attract researchers and significant inward investment. Particular Sciences today locally supports subsidiaries of global giants in Pharma, Bio-Pharma, Medical Devices, Electronics and Nano-Technologies sectors. As well as homegrown companies in the food, beverage, healthcare, minerals and specialty materials sectors. Particular Sciences has now installed over >800 specialist scientific instruments into >250 companies.

And throughout all this development, we hold to our original concept – to strive to offer the level of support our principles do in their subsidiary territories.”

Sean P. Quilty,      April 2025, Dublin