glad to hear it josh - i will have some blades to send you soon...

Carbon certainly can be detected, but since it's so much lighter than the other components the problem I suspect is that you can't do it on the same machine. I suspect that the Prof. who Josh spoke with would have been aware if somebody else on campus would have that capability....
I am not sure that the cheap spectrometers that detect just content that Mike mentions are good enough to quantify the differences in component content we're looking at.

I wonder how much of an interest such a project would be to somebody like Verhoeven (sp?) - of course if they want to do such a project they have the funds to analyze pretty much anything they wish, so they may not have much interest in us providing a bunch of blades.

In any case Mike, you probably have much better idea who may be suitable. In a university setting it seems like an reasonable undergrad summer project.