Method for classifying scientific materials such as silicate materials, polymer materials and/or nanomaterials

A method for characterizing a scientific material such as a silicate material, a polymer material and/or nanomaterial comprising the following steps:

• a) providing a plurality of material classes each with a plurality of calibration and material specimens per class with a plurality of known class-characteristics;
• b) irradiating a measuring light of a predetermined wavelength range into the material specimen;
• c) recording of the measuring light passed through, reflected, reemitted and/or scattered by the material specimens;
• d) determining a ratio depending on the wave lengths of irradiated to detected measuring light (spectrum) for each material specimen of a class;
• e) numerical-mathematical processing of spectral data of each material specimen;
• f) correlating the spectra of a majority of material specimens with a predetermined material class;
• g) creating a database with the processed spectral data with different material classes based on the material specimens measured of individual classes for calibration of a class correlation;
• h) repeating steps b) to e) at least once with at least one material sample with at least partially unknown characteristics;
• and
• i) determining the material classes to which the unknown material specimen is related, by means of a class correlation of the spectra measured using the created calibration database from step g).