Instrumentation

CHROMATOGRAPHY

• *Waters 510 pump, 440 UV, R401RI analytical HPLC system
  *Waters 2690 HPLC/GPC analysis system
  *Spectra/Chrome preparative LC
  *Dual GPC size exclusion systems

• *Hewlett Packard capillary HPLC

• *Spectra Physics System reverse phase HPLC
  *Hewlett Packard 6890 GC

• *Thermo Finnigan Trace 2000 GC with auto sampler

• *Pervaporation unit, liquid separations using films
  *Linde Gas Permeation device
• 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

• *Elcometer portable 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
  *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
• 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
• *JEOL JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope with Rigaku Ultima III x-ray detector
  *Carl Zeiss Transmission Electron Microscope EM 109 T, DPS
  *FEI Quanta 200 environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) with NORAN Vantage x-ray detector, Norvar crystal, Windows NT software, lower detection limit-Beryllium
  * Nanoscope® MultiMode™ scanning probe microscope (SPM) with multiple application modules
  *Dimension 3000 atomic force microscope (AFM) with NanoScope® IIIa controller from Veeco
  *Hysitron Triboindenter® nanomechanical testing system.
  *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
  *Digital Instruments Nanoscope IIIA Dimension 3000 atomic force microscope (AFM) with Tektronix Phaser
  *Leica EM UC6 Ultramicrotome and Cryoultramicrotome FC6
  *Bromma LKB 7800 knife maker
  *Reichert-Jung FC-4E cryo-microtome
• 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

• *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

• *MTS Alliance RT/10 with DX2000 extensiometer
  *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
  *Henschel FM-10 premixer
  *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 8,000 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
  *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
  *Rheometrics RMS 800/RDS II mechanical and dynamic spectrometer
  *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

• *Varian UNITY-INOVA 400 MHz solids spectrometer

• *Varian MERCURY 300 spectrometer

• *Varian MERCURY 200 spectrometer

• *Bruker MSL-200 solids spectrometer

• 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
  *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 75,000 spectra searchable database
  *ASI Applied Systems ReactIR 1000 with variable optics module for remote sensing
  *Mattson Galaxy series FTIR with TGA interface
  *FieldSpec Pro FR portable infrared spectrometer
• 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 DSC1000 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
• 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
  *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

• *Glass shop

• *Electronics shop
• Computer aided design
• Automated test equipment
• Prototyping equipment
• Analog and digital equipment repair
• SLS rapid prototyping machines

• Computrac Max 2000 moisture analyzer
  Atlas HDV2 DTUL/VICAT 300°C heat distortion unit
  Arizona Instruments MAX 2000 moisture analyzer
  Tensilkut sample preparation unit