Industry Interaction
The Morgan Research Group welcomes industry interaction in the form of collaborative projects, consortium membership, polymer analysis and characterization, and student internships. The University of Southern Mississippi industry interactions are managed by Noetic Technologies, Inc. through the Southern Miss Research Foundation. Surface analysis capability includes atomic force microscopy, ATR-FTIR, nanoindentation, SEM-EDAX, surface Plasmon resonance, quartz crystal microbalance, tribometry, ellipsometry, contact angle goniometry and comprehensive coatings analysis capability.
Representative Industry Partners with Morgan Research Group
Boeing
Hybrid Plastics
Keraplast Technologies
GE
Johnson and Johnson
Northrop Grumman
Sabic Innovative Plastics
Solvay
Sun Chemical
Instrumentation at Southern Miss School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
The University of Southern Mississippi
EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION LIST
The University of Southern Mississippi School of Polymers and High Performance Materials is housed in a 100,000 square foot research facility with comprehensive polymer synthesis, analysis, characterization, and processing capabilities. Available equipment and facilities include:
BARRIER PROPERTIES ANALYSIS
Mocon Ox-Tran Model 2/21 Oxygen Permeability
Mocon Aromotron Solvent Vapor Transport Unit
Mocon Permatran-W 3/31 Water Vapor Permeability
Mocon Permatran-W 3/33 Water Vapor Permeability
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Varian 500 MS System
LC/MS/MS and MSn capability
Electrospray ionization detector (ESI)
Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization detector (APCI)
Prostar 420 Autosampler
Polymer Laboratories PL-GPC50 Plus High Resolution, Integrated GPC System
PL-AS RT autosampler
RI Detector
PL-BV 400RT viscometer
PL-LS 45o/90o dual angle laser light scattering detector
Variable wavelength UV detector
Polymer Laboratories PL-ELS 1000 evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD)
Waters 2414 refractive index detector
Waters 1525 binary HPLC pump
Waters 515 HPLC pump
Waters Millennium32 software
Waters 510 pump, 440 UV, R401RI analytical HPLC system
Waters 2690 HPLC/GPC analysis system
Spectra/Chrome preparative LC
Dual GPC size exclusion systems
Aqueous Ultrahydrogel columns
THF 3 PL-gel columns
Polymer Labs Caliber 5.1 software
Hewlett Packard capillary HPLC
1050 pump, 1047A RI, 3396 integrator, cyano capillary column
Spectra Physics System reverse phase HPLC
Hewlett Packard 6890 GC
MSD 6890 Mass Selective Detector
6890 auto sampler
Windows NT operating system with enhanced chemstation software
Thermo Finnigan Trace 2000 GC with auto sampler
Flame ionization detector and flame photometric detector
Fully automated data acquisition and analysis
Chromquest software
Pervaporation unit, liquid separations using films
Linde Gas Permeation device
COMPOSITES CENTER
American Autoclave – custom built autoclave 4’ x 2’
Heatcon debulking vacuum table 4’ x 4’
Century Design CD-1510 12” wide lab scale drum Winder
Trilion Optical Test Systems ARAMIS 3D HR, 3D image
correlation system for strain mapping of composite failure events
Gnomix PVT High Pressure Dilatometer for analysis of composite properties associated with the coefficient of volume thermal expansion and shrinkage upon curing
COATINGS LABORATORY
Salt fog chamber
Prohesion chamber
Gardner impact tester
Gardner minimum film forming temperature bar 90
Fusion systems EPIQ6000 ultraviolet curing apparatus
QUV accelerated weathering testers
Gardco statistical novogloss gloss meter
Thickness gauges:
Dial
Minitest 4000
Fisher permascope
Digital micrometer
PosiTector 6000-FN
PosiTector 100 ultra-sonic multi-surface film
DeFelsko PosiTest ® digital pull-off adhesion tester
Draw down bars
Shar Incorporated high-speed mixer
Myers Engineering high-speed mixer
Eiger mill
Kinetic Dispersion Corporation Kady Mill
VWR electric curing oven
Teledyne taber abrader
Paul Gardner dry time recorder
Sward rocker hardness tester
BYK-Gardner micro tri gloss meter
Gardner EZ viscosity cups
Gardco/Hoffman SAM tester
Norton ball mill
Microfluidics microfluidizer
Craftsman 6 hp 60-gallon compressor
Gardner conical mandrel bend tester
Gardner mandrel bend tester
Ford viscosity cups
Contact angle tester
Hegman gauge
Pencil scratch hardness tester
Crosshatch adhesion tester
Weight per gallon cups
Gardner glossgard system
PTC instrument durometer
Gardner bubble viscometer
Binks model 7 paint spray gun
Binks model 1SL HVLP spray guns
Forced air ventilation paint spray booth (10’x8’x8’)
Shar D-38 SPZ 30 gallon mixing system
BYK-Gardner color guide 45/0º hand held colorimeter with computer interface
BYK-Gardner handheld color spectrophotometer
Little Joe one-color proofing press
Anthony laboratory three-roll mill
BYK Gardner byko spectra 5 light booth
BYK Gardner Haze gloss system
Gardco Sagmeter Medium Range
EMULSION POLYMERIZATION
Dow DCU controller, Camile 2000
Dual Masterflex 7518-10 console drive pumps
Dual KD scientific RS 232, dual-syringe pumps
Fisher isotemp 730 immersion circulator
Mettler RC1e reaction calorimeter
INK PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Parker Print-surf model M590
Measuring 0.6 to 14.0 microns with automatic statistical analysis, data printer, built in calibration routines, test and calibration set, porosity test head
TMI ink rub tester with three speed settings
TMI digital bench micrometer
TMI K303 Multicoater with gravure laminating head, engraved head, and flexo head
IGT AIC2-5 T2000 Paper Coating Testing unit
IGT High Speed inking unit
RK Flexiproof 100 Ink Proofing System
BYK Gardner 75 Degree Gloss Meter
LIGHT SCATTERING INSTRUMENTATION
Brice-Phoenix universal photometer
Brice-Phoenix differential refractometer
Chromatix KMX-6 low-angle laser photometer with autocorrelator interfaced to an HP-85 computer
Chromatix KMX-16 laser differential refractometer
Wyatt Dawn-Flow laser LSI in-line with SEC system
2.0 mW solid-state transmission light scattering apparatus/camera
MICROSCOPY/IMAGING
JEOL JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope with Rigaku Ultima III X-ray detector
FEI Quanta 200 environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) with Thermo-NORAN Vantage light element EDAX X-ray detector
Nanoscope® MultiMode™ scanning probe microscope (SPM) with multiple application modules
Dimension 3000 atomic force microscope (AFM) with NanoScope® IIIa controller from Veeco
Agilent 5500 atomic force microscope with top-down scanning and multipurpose closed-loop scanner from 90 um to 670 nm
Zeiss optical polarizing microscope
Nikon optical polarizing microscopes with video and hot stage
Nikon compound and dissecting microscopes with video, 35mm, and digital imaging capability
Kodak DC290 digital microscopy system
Leitz optical polarizing microscope
Leica EM UC6 Ultramicrotome and Cryoultramicrotome FC6
Bromma LKB 7800 knife maker
Reichert-Jung FC-4E cryo-microtome
Keyence VHS 600 digital microscope with 3D imaging capability, multi-angle observation base, and magnification range from 20-200X.
Vision Research Phantom v5.1 color, high-speed camera and 24-70mm and 70-200mm lenses
SURFACE ANALYSIS
Reichert SR7000DC Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectrometer
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM-D) E4 system (Q-sense)
Gaertner Scientific LSE-Stokes ellipsometer
Ramè-hart goniometer
Microphotonics Pin on Disc Tribometer
OSMOMETRY
Knauer membrane osmometer
Knauer vapor phase osmometer
PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZERS
MATEC capillary hydrodynamic fractionation unit , (CHDF 2000 with autosampler)
Microtrac UPA 250 Sub-micron analyzer
Microtrac (SRA) with powder and liquid capabilities
Coulter N4 sub-micron analyzer
Horiba laser scattering particle size analyzer
POLYMER PROCESSING
Cincinnati Milacron CAMAC VSx 85-ton injection molding machine
Battenfield Unilog 4000 17-ton injection molding machine
Prism TSE 16TC Bench top extruder
Boy 15S injection molder
Rotational molder
Compression molder
Pressure and vacuum forming equipment
Extrusion facilities
Wire coating, ribbon, blown film, annular, and Hann Slit dies
Haake Rheocord 90 twin-screw extruder
Cober model LBM 1.2A Microwave/Convection oven
POLYMER TESTING - PHYSICAL
MTS 810 universal test machine with TestStar™ Digital Controller
Variable temperature/atmosphere chamber (-200°C to 350°C)
5 to 20,000 lb load cells
MTS Alliance RT/10 with DX2000 extensiometer
Instron Dynatup 8250 Instrumented Impact Tester
Hysitron Triboindenter® nanomechanical testing system.
Polyken Probe-Tack tester, testing machine, model 80-02
Custom Scientific Izod impact tester
Melt deflection testing equipment
Kruss tensiometer`
First Ten Angstroms FTA200 goniometer
Tinius Olsen Izod impact tester
Blue-M Environmental test chamber 16 cu.ft. -73°C to 190°C, 10-98% RH over 45°F to190°F
POWDER COATINGS
Cyclomix 5L premixer
Werner-Pfleiderer ZSK-30 twin-screw extruder
Micron Powder System Bantam mill with cryogenic support for processing
Kemutec sieve (65-145 μm size)
Nordson spray booth with tribo-charging and corona-charging spray guns
Plastic Flame Systems powder pistol flame spray
Dri Quick 8000 watt infrared oven
Raytek Raynger ST4L variable emissivity infrared thermometer
Despatch gas oven
Vitamixer powder mixer
Thermoelectric Company cure plate (gel time recorder)
Sames fluidized bed
IKA Works Inc. laboratory analytical mill
VWR Model 1685, horizontal air flow oven, 25 cu.ft. capacity, 40 to 260°C temperature range
Fostoria Industries experimental infrared curing oven, 3 zone 6 bank variable wavelength IR with conveyor
Nutro combination UV/IR curing oven
Tangent Systems, Inc. Tempest data logger. 500°F maximum service temperature
RHEOLOGY
TA Instruments ARES LS2 rheometer with force convection oven, extensional viscosity fixture, UV curing option, and dielectric thermal analysis option.
Rheometric Scientific SR-5000 dynamic and steady state testing from -40°C to 250°C including Peltier, double wall couette, heated plates, and cup and bob stages
TA Instruments ARES rheometer
Falling-ball
Brookfield viscometers equipped with DV Gather software
Stormer viscometer
Seiko Instruments SDM 5600 dynamic mechanical spectrometer with DMS110 bending/shear and DMS210 tensile modules
Polymer Laboratories DMTA Mk III dynamic mechanical thermal analyzer
Haake TP-24 rheometer
Contraves low-shear 30 viscometers
Cannon-Ubbleholde and zero-shear viscometers
Instron Capillary Rheometer Model 3211
Tinius Olson Extrusion Plastometer (melt indexer)
Custom Scientific Extrusion Plastometer (melt indexer)
Brabender Plasticorder
ICI cone and plate viscometer
Bohlin RH7 Flowmaster advance capillary rheometer
SPECTROSCOPY – NMR
Varian UNITY-INOVA 500 MHz spectrometer
3-channel system, 2 full band 1 low band, 2 channels with waveform generators
Magnet equipped with vibration isolators
FTS cooling system for extend -5°C operation
VT controller
Performa III gradient
2 probes
2-channel 5mm standard broadband PFG probe
3-channel 5mm PFG inverse probe
SUN ULTRA 10 workstation
Varian UNITY-INOVA 400 MHz solids spectrometer
3-channel system, 2 full band, 1 low band, and 2 channels with waveform generators
3 KW amplifiers (2 AMT models, Chemagnetics 1H amplifier)
VT controller
MAS controller
2 probes
2-channel 7.5 mm broadband Chemagnetics CP/MAS probe, VT range -100°C to 250°C
3-channel 4mm HXY Chemagnetics REDOR probe, VT range -100°C to 250°C
SUN ULTRA 5 workstation
Varian MERCURY 300 spectrometer
2-channel 4 nuclei system (1H, 13C, 19F, 31P)
Performa I gradient
2-channel 5mm standard broadband PFG probe
VT controller
Varian MERCURY 200 spectrometer
2-channel 4 nuclei system (1H, 13C, 19F, 31P)
2-channel 5mm standard broadband probe
VT controller
Bruker MSL-200 solids spectrometer
Retro-fitted with a standard broadband 2 channel Chemagnetics 7.5 mm CP/MAS probe
SPECTROSCOPY - IR
Bio-Rad FTS 6000 Step-Scan spectrometer with Stingray IR imaging software and photoacoustic and ATR attachments with UMS 500 microspectroscope
Perkin-Elmer 1600 Series FTIR
Nicolet IR/42 FTIR
Nicolet 6700 FTIR with Smart Orbit diamond ATR accessory
Nicolet 6700 FTIR
GATR sampling accessory kit
VeeMax variable angle specular reflectance accessory
In-sample compartment for TGA/IR analysis
Nicolet Antaris II near-IR
Digilab Scimitar FTS-2000/UMA 400 IR Microscope with pyrolysis, variable ATR, slide-on micro ATR analyzer, diffuse reflectance, and specular reflectance sampling capability and 225,000 spectra searchable database
Mettler Toledo ReactIR 1000 with variable optics module for remote sensing with diamond and silicon probes
Mettler Toledo ReactIR iC10 with diamond probe and controlled heating platen
Mattson Galaxy series FTIR with TGA interface
SPECTROSCOPY – UV/VIS
Perkin-Elmer Lambda 6 UV/Vis spectrophotometer interfaced to an Epson PC
SPECTROSCOPY - MASS
PerSeptive Biosystems MALDI mass spectrometer with Voyager RP Biospectrometry workstation, molecular weight in the millions, end group analysis below 25,000
THERMAL/CALORIMETRIC ANALYSIS
TA Instruments DSC2000 with auto-sampler
TA Instruments TGA500 with auto-sampler
Perkin Elmer DSC 7 photo-DSC with 450 watt low-pressure mercury lamp
DuPont 910 DSC
DuPont 951 thermogravimetric analyzer
DuPont 982 DMA dynamic mechanical analyzer with 9900 data station system
Mettler FP 80 microscope
Programmable hot stage
High-speed camera
Bascom-Turner 4120 electronic recorder
Mettler Graphware 7.2 software
TA Instruments 930 differential photocalorimeter
TA Instruments 2920 differential scanning calorimeter
TA Instruments SDT 2960 simultaneous DTA-TGA
Mettler TGA 850 thermogravimetric analyzer
Mettler DSC 30 differential scanning calorimeter
Perkin-Elmer DSC-7 differential scanning calorimeter with TAC 7/DX thermal analyzer controller
SOFTWARE FOR SIMULATION AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
Solidworks
Cosmosworks
Cosmosfloworks
Pro-E
Minitab
DOE Pro
QI Macros
Mathcad
VIDEO EDITING CAPABILITY/WEB PAGE CREATION
Dell 530 Workstation
Adobe Creative Suite 2
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Indesign CS2
Adobe Designer 7.0
Adobe ImageReady CS2
Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio Premium
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Adobe After Effects 7.0
Adobe Audition 2.0
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
Boris RED Version 2.1 effects software
Panasonic AG-DVC200 digital video camera
Panasonic AG-DV2000 VTR digital video deck
Dreamweaver MX
Flash 5
Fireworks 4
Freehand 10
Virtual Reality
SGI Onyx 3400 Advanced Visualization system
Wood Composites
Watlow/SRT 180 Ton Hydraulic Press w/26” x 26” heated plattens
Henschel FM L 40 mixer
X-RAY ANALYSIS - POWDER
Siemens XPD-700 area detector system with GADDS PC-based data acquisition and manipulation package with 3-axis camera and variable temperature device (1200°C max)
Phillips PW-1720 powder and fiber WAXD with darkroom
X-RAY ANALYSIS - SINGLE CRYSTAL
Rigaku AFC6S automated diffractometer with TEXSAN™ structure solution package
X-RAY ANALYSIS - SAXS
Siemens 18 kW rotating anode source, super model 7616 double mirror focusing system, 3 meter camera rail, Siemens HiStar area detector system
MISCELLANEOUS
Edwards short path distillation system/wiped film evaporator
Mettler Toledo Density XS system
Orion AF8 Volumetric Karl-Fischer water analysis unit
Varian 109Q ESR
Hewlett-Packard 4192A impedance analyzer with HP-85 data station
Time resolved, single –photon counting fluorescence spectrometer
Nanosecond laser flash photolysis system
Solartron 1255 HF frequency response analyzer with 1286 electrochemical interface
Parr reactors with 300 mL and 600 mL capacity
Spontaneous combustion apparatus - ASTM E771
Dry ice pelletizer
Cyclone DNA synthesizer
Fabrication shop
Machining
Computer aided manufacturing
Quality Control
Welding
Sheet metal
Bridgeport CNC milling machine
Glass shop
Glass blowing equipment
Electronics shop
Computer aided design
Automated test equipment
Prototyping equipment
Analog and digital equipment repair
Mississippi Polymer Institute (MPI)
SLS rapid prototyping machines
Sinterstation 2000
Sinterstation 2500 plus
Laserform Oven
Computrac Max 2000 moisture analyzer
Atlas HDV2 DTUL/VICAT 300°C heat distortion unit
Arizona Instruments MAX 2000 moisture analyzer
Tensilkut sample preparation unit