Equipment

 

 

Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties and Characterization of Materials:

Aparratus for easurement of Vapor - Liquid equilibrium at high pressures.   

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Movable Piston High Pressure Optical Cell for the determination of polymer-solvent-CO2 phase equilibrium.

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Setaram  C80 Calorimeters 

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Quartz Crystall Microbalances

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Thermal Analysis (Shimadzu): DSC, TGA and TMA 

 

 

Thermal Analysis, VP-DSC, VP-ITC (Microcal LLC)

 

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Ambient and High Pressure Densitometers (Anton Paar) 

 

 

Piezoelectric Sensors

 

 

Supercritical Fluid and Subcritical Water Applications:

Gilson Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph and Extractor (SFC/SFE)

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Supercritical Fluid Extraction apparatus (SFE) (3 units)

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Subcritical Water Oxidation apparatus 

 

 

Spectroscopy and Light Scattering:

FTIR Spectrometer (BIO-RAD) with GC/IR and TG/IR Hyphenation 

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Perkin-Elmer Spectrum GX Spectrophotometer

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Miniscan XE Plus Spectrophotometer

 

 

Static and Dynamic Light Scattering (Brookhaven Instruments) 

 

 

Gas Chromatograph equipped with Mass Spectrometer

 

 

Theta Metrisis White Light Reflectance Spectroscopy (WLRS)

 

 

Chromatography (for analytical applications) and Inverse Chromatography for materials characterization:

 

GPC (Shimadzu) 

 

HPLC (Shimadzu) 

 

6 Gas Chromatographs (Shimadzu, Carlo Erba, Hewlett Packard) 

Gilson Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph (SFC/SFE)

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Biomedical Applications:

 

Steri-Cycle CO2 Incubator, (model 381, Thermo Forma, U.S.A.)

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Microbiological Safety Cabinet, (Safeflow 1.2, BioAir Division, EuroClone S.p.A. Italy)

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Varispeed Refrigerated Centrifuge 15000Rpm (K280R, Centurion Scientific Ltd, UK)

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Inverted Microscope, (Axiovert 40, Zeiss, Germany)

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Measurement of Mechanical Properties:

 

Zwick 1455 Universal Testing Machine 

 

Microscopes:

 

Inverted Microscope, (Axiovert 40, Zeiss, Germany)

 

Leica MZ 12 stereoscope with JVC TKC-621 camera

 

 

Mettler Thermal Microscopy/ Hot Stage 

 

 

Extrusion of Polymers:

 

Haake Rheodrive with Rheomix , 

Twin Screw Extruder,

and Capillary Rheometer

 

 

Single Screw Extruder with Film Blowing Attachment 

 

 

Other:

 

 

 

Ellipsometry (The Multiskop, Optrel, Germany)

 

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Electrospinning Apparatus

 

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PAN Ultrasound Velocimeter 

 

 

 

Izod Impact Tester 

 

 

 

64 dedicated CPUs for Theoretical Modeling and Simulations