Research Facilities

Film Formation Cluster facilitates all necessary equipment for film fabrication, film formation, and includes powder coatings lab, UV curing facilities as well as thin film deposition laboratory.

Morphological Cluster facilitates the access to the state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy, environmental scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and X-Ray analysis.

Rheological Cluster provides the access to a variety of modern rheological instrumentation that can be exerted for research of polymeric blends, polymeric fluids as well as other systems.

Separations Cluster facilitates liquid, gas, and gel permeation chromatography as well as other separation methods to allow researchers to fully characterize monomeric and polymeric species utilized for further studies.

Spectroscopic Cluster is equipped with state-of-the-art liquid and solid NMR, high throughput FTIR and Raman spectrometers with imaging capabilities and surface/interfacial analysis. Fluorescence, light scattering and radionuclide measurements are also available.

Thermo Mechanical offers a spectrum of thermal and mechanical methods utilized in modern polymer analysis including differential DSC, TGA, and DMA.

Synthesis Cluster provides a modern synthetic apparatus for Center researchers which allow synthesis and polymerization of water soluble and other polymers applied in stimuli-responsive polymeric films.

Film Formation Cluster facilitates all necessary equipment for film fabrication, film formation, and includes powder coatings labs, UV curing facilities as well as thin film deposition laboratory.

For more information about our facilities visit our facilities page.