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Polymer Research Laboratory
State of the art facilities in production and characterization of polymeric materials exist in the polymer research laboratory, as part of the polymer research and education center. A
listing of the key equipment and facilities, seperated into material production and characterization, is provided below.
Material Production Equipment and Facilities
Polymerization
Continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) polymerization unit for manufacture of Polyacrylonitrile.
Reaction Engineering Group - Reactors: 1.0L, 1.5L, 2.0L, 3.0L glass reactors for batch reactions; 0.25L, 0.5L, or 1.5L glass reactors for continuous reactions. Miscellaneous Reactors.
Mixing, Solution making
1 Liter Rotary Mixer/Reactor.
Ross 2 gallon Planetary Mixer.
Spinning, Extrusion, Molding
Wet Spinning line.
PASCO High Temperature Draw Frame with dual, large diameter rolls.
Bradford Laboratory Spinning Line: Small scale melt and wet solution spinning unit.
Haake Rheocord 90 Torque Rheometer with twin screw extruder.
Haake Rheocord System 40 rheometer/extruder. Single and twin screw extruders.
Van Dorn Injection Molding machine.
Sumitomo Injection Molding machine.
Wabash compression press.
Allison compression press.
Resin Transfer Molding.
Reaction Injection Molding.
Branson Ultrasonic Bonding Unit.
Thermal Treatment
Horizontal Tubular Lindberg Furnace: max.1200C.
Horizontal Tubular Lindberg Furnace: Three zone furnace with max.1200C.
Horizontal Tubular Lindberg Furnace: Three zone furnace with max. temperature 1600C.
Multizone Stabilization Line with four zones with independent stresses (or residence times), temperatures and atmospheres.
Max. temperature about 400C.
Single Zone Stabilization Line. Max. temperature about 400C. 18 feet length.
Vacuum Ovens include Precision Scientific Model 524; VWR Scientific model 1410D.
Air Circulating Ovens include Precision Scientific Model 645; Fisher Scientific.
Composites Manufacture
Matched mold die.
Electrostatic Prepregging of Tows.
McLean Anderson Filament Winder: 2 Axis.
Pultruder.
Three Dimensional Weaving loom from AVL Looms.
Wardwell Braider.
5 axis Entec Filament Winder: model PW18WX-036-2.
Material Characterization Equipment and Facilities
Thermal Characterization
Seiko DSC 220C.
Seiko TG/DTA 220.
Seiko DMS 210.
Seiko DSC 220C.
Autovibron model IIB.
Perkin Elmer TMA 7.
Perkin Elmer TGA 7 HT.
Polymer Laboratories DMTA: Bending/ Shear measuring head.
Perkin Elmer DSC4.
Perkin Elmer DTA 1700.
Microscopy & Imaging
Leica Scanning Electron Microscope with Northern Microtrace EDX spectrometer.
Aus Jena Interphako Transmitted Light Interference Microscope.
Zeiss Polarized Light Transmission Microscope.
Leitz LaborLux Polarizing Optical Microscope: equipped with heating stage and Image Analysis capabilities.
Leitz Macroscope.
Zeiss Axiovert 100 inverted Microscope: modified for fluorescence with image analysis capability.
American Optical Low Power Stereoscope.
Mettler FP 82 Programmable Hot Stage.
Rotary Microtome: American Optical.
Sorvall Ultramicrotome: "Porter Blum" MT2-B ultramicrotome.
OME Reichert Large Sliding Microtome.
ISI Sputter Coater.
Digital Instruments Model NanoScopeII Tunneling Microscope.
Digital Instruments Model NanoScopeII Atomic Force Microscope.
ARIS-3500 Burleigh Instruments Atomic Force Microscope.
Inframetrics PM300 ThermaCam FPA Imaging Radiometer.
Surface Laser Interferometric profiler.
Rheometry
Bohlin VOR Rheometer.
Melt Flow Indexer for melts.
Haake Rotovisco RV20 rheometer.
Haake Rheocord System 40 Rheometer/Extruder.
Brookfield Spindle Viscometer.
Mechanical Properties
Instron Tensile Tester Model 1125.
Instron Dynamic Tester Model 8502.
MTS T5002 Tensile Tester.
Monsanto Tensometer T10.
Polymer Laboratories Minimat Tensile Tester.
Environmental Chambers for Instrons: Model 3116 high temperature and model A74 normal temperature range
chambers.
H.M.Morgan PPM-5 Sonic Modulus Tester: Fiber accessory, refractory fiber attachment (4m rail), film attachment.
Rame-Hart Single Filament Frictometer.
Fiber Creep Rupture Tester.
X-ray Diffraction
WAXD Diffractometer: Rigaku RU200BH 12 kW rotating anode generator with D/Max B wide angle horizontal goniometer and fiber orientation attachment.
Small Angle X-ray Scattering: Rigaku SAXS goniometer.
Flat Plate X-ray Scattering Camera: Statton type from Blake Industries.
Spectroscopy
Perkin Elmer FTIR Microscope System: Model 1620 FTIR
and 1600/16 PC MCT FTIR Microscope frame.
Nicolet FTIR Model 60SX: far infra-red to visible.
Tracor Northern Model 1710 Diode Array Rapid Scanning Spectrometer.
Nicolet FTIR model 60 SXR.
Digilab FTS
40A Spectrometer: Dual source/dual detector system capable of near and mid IR; integrating sphere and other acessories.
Varian CARY 219 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer.
Milton Roy Spectronic 21 UV Spectrophotometer.
SPEX Industries Fluorolog-2 Spectrofluorometer.
Varian Gemini 300 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer.
Bruker 400 DSX NMR for solids and imaging. Bruker 300 DSX NMR for solids.
Bruker 400 AMX NMR for solutions and heteronuclei.
Bruker 500 DSX NMR for Proton with gradients and triple resonance.
Molecular Weight and Particle Size
Waters Gel Permeation Chromatograph/High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph.
Wyatt Technology Corp. multiangle DAWN Laser Light Scattering Detector with Wyatt/Optilab 903
Interferometric refractometer.
Wescan recording osmometer.
Dilute Solution Viscometry: Ubbelohde viscometers with temperature controlled baths.
Malvern Autosizer 2c particle size analyzer.
SpectroMonitor 3000 by LDC/Milton Roy HDC for particle size distribution by hydrodynamic chromatography.
Porous Material Characterization
Quantachrome Corp.Autoscan-33 Mercury Porosimeter.
Quantachrome Corp.Autosorb-1 Nitrogen Absorption.
Miscellaneous Physical Properties
(Electrical Properties; Refractive Index; Density; Chromatography)
Micromet Instrument Inc. Eumetric System III Microdielectrometer.
Gradient columns for measuring densities.
Quantachrome Corp. Multipycnometer Helium Pycnometry.
Zeiss Abbe Refractometer Model 4.
Baush & Lomb Refractometer.
Beckman GC-65 Gas Chromatograph with FID detector.
Varian Gas Chromatograph model 3300 with Varian 4290 Integrator.
Metricon 2010 Prism Coupler: Variable wavelength between green and red.
Metricon 2010 Prism Coupler.
EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 273 Potentiostat/Galvanostate.
Cypress Systems Computer-Controlled Voltammograph.
IBM Instruments Model EC-225A Polarographic Analyzer.
Cahn D-200 digital recording microbalance.
Gas Permeation: determination of gas transport rates
through porous and non-porous polymer samples.
Composites Instrumentation
Automation/Sperry US 450A C Scan Ulrasonic laboratory Scanner.
Physical Acoustics model UltraPak II Ultrasonic C-Scanner.
Computer-Aided Molecular Modeling
Molecular modeling workstation with QUANTA/CHARMm 4.0, POLYGRAF 3.2, CERIUS2.
SGI Power Indigo2 and
Indigo workstations; Software: BIOSYM, POLYFLOW, GAUSSIAN 95, NAG, IMSL Numerical Library, Exponent Graphics, ABAQUS, MACSYMA, MATHEMATICA, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, WEB, C, and C++.
Polymer Modeling Indigo R4000 Workstation with Biosym Polymer Modeling System.
For more information, please contact
Prof. A. Abhiraman (ChE) and Prof. P. Desai (TFE)
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