Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM)
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Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM) is a prominent American chemical company specializing in metal-based solutions. Founded in 1994 in Irvine, California, SAM has emerged as a global leader in providing high-quality pure metals, alloys, ceramics, and rare earth elements. The company caters to a wide array of industries, including pharmaceuticals, capacitors, metallurgy, semiconductors, and aviation.[1]
History
Established in 1994 in Irvine, California, Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM) initially focused on supplying rare-earth products for research and development (R&D). In response to market demands, the company expanded its operations and relocated its headquarters to Lake Forest, California, in 2008. Over the years, SAM broadened its product range to include materials for various industries, such as ceramics, metallurgy, pharmacy, semiconductors, capacitors, electronics, and aviation. The company's commitment to innovation led to the launch of dedicated websites catering to specific materials, including magnets, evaporative materials, and ceramics.[2]
SAM specializes in providing high-purity chemicals for research institutes and technical-grade materials for advanced industries. The company offers customizable materials that adhere to widely accepted standards, ensuring reliability and quality.[3]
SAM's product line includes a diverse range of materials, such as tantalum and niobium, available in various forms like ingots, foils, sheets, tubes, rods, wires, meshes, crucibles, and flanges. Additionally, SAM provides compounds and sputtering targets for thin film coating and deposition, ranging from pure metals and alloys to ceramics like oxides, nitrides, carbides, fluorides, and silicides.[4]
Since its inception, SAM has been at the forefront of materials science, introducing innovative products such as polymer tungsten for radiation blocking, medical devices incorporating nitinol wire for esophagus protection, tantalum marker bands, and lanthanum hexaboride for electron sources.[5]
In 2007, SAM achieved significant growth, with annual revenue exceeding 10 million US dollars.
Products
Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM) offers a comprehensive range of chemical materials to meet diverse research and production needs. With over 5,000 online product pages, SAM's portfolio includes pure forms of each element, rare earth materials, sputtering targets, evaporation materials, alloys, superalloys, metal parts, advanced ceramic materials, permanent magnets, metal powders, nanomaterials, bulk chemicals, research compounds, and catalysts.
The company's product line encompasses six key brands:
- Stanford Magnets offers high-quality magnets, assemblies, motors, and thin metals.
- Stanford Materials Corporation (SMC) supplies rare earth oxides, metals, alloys, and minerals.
- Advanced Ceramic Materials (ACM) Corporation produces ceramic materials such as Boron Nitride, Alumina, Boron Carbide, Lanthanum Boride, and Zirconia.
- Advanced Refractory Metals (ARM) manufactures standard refractory metal products.
- SAM Sputtering Targets provides sputtering targets and evaporation materials.
- Stanford Chemicals offers a variety of chemicals, including hyaluronic acid powder, botanical ingredients, vitamins, and pharmaceutical intermediates.
Partnerships
SAM collaborates with various government and research institutions, serving as a trusted supplier. The company is a standard subcontractor for the Department of Energy's fabrication and scientific equipment. Furthermore, SAM partners with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mesoscale Nuclear Materials Group (MIT-MNM), contributing materials to experimental research and fostering innovative workflows for material discovery and development.[6]
References
- ↑ "Stanford Advanced Materials | InterNano". https://www.internano.org/node/4628. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ metals, samaterials Bio: Stanford Advanced Materialsis a global supplier of a series of pure; Oxides, Minerals Such as; profile, etc View complete (23 January 2014). "About" (in en). https://samaterials.wordpress.com/about/. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ "High Purity Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) Market Evolution: Recent and Emerging Trends, Applications of High Purity Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) – WBLZMedia". 18 April 2024. https://wblzmedia.com/news/high-purity-gallium-oxide-ga2o3-market-evolution-recent-and-emerging-trends-applications-of-high-purity-gallium-oxide-ga2o3/21522/. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ "Polymer tungsten for environmentally friendly medical radiation shield". https://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/polymer-tungsten-for-environmentally-friendly-medical-radiation-shield/. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ "Stanford Advanced Materials - Matmatch". https://matmatch.com/suppliers/sama-stanford-advanced-materials. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ "Oceania International LLC" (in en). https://govtribe.com/vendors/oceania-international-llc-stanford-advanced-materials-7e9l7. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
