Research Facilities

Rheological analysis

• Cylinder concentric rheometry (max. 1600ºC)
• Bohlin Instruments CVS120 controlled stress rheometer
• Brookfield DVII controlled stress rheometer
• Capilary rheometer

Fibre drawing

• Spinning equipment . (max 360 km/h, max 1600 ºC)

Mechanical test

• Vickers indenter, Struers Duramin

High temperature processing

• Melting furnace, (max 1700°C)
• Annealing ovens (max 1150°C)
• Furnace with controlled gas (max 1600°C). (self constructed)

Organic analysis

• Dionex HPLC, Alltech ELSD 8000 detector
• Dionex HPLC, Shodex RI-101detector
• Dionex HPLC, OVD 1700/3400 UV/Vis detector
• Dionex HPLC, DX300 puls electrochemical detector.
• Varian 450 GC with dual injection port/FI detector and a combipal autosampler

Thermal analysis

• Perkin Elmer DSC 7
• Netzsch Jupiter STA 449C up to 1500 ºC
• Para 1356 Bomb calorimeter
• Impedance (max 1500 ºC)

Solid separation

• Cross-flow Micro- or ultrafiltration
• Cross-flow nanofiltration or reverse osmosis
• Dead-end, Controlled pressure
• Dead-end, Controlled deformation
• Membrane bioreactor
• Electro filtration
• Analytical Ultracentrifuge

Spectroscopic analysis

• Perkin Elmer, AAnalyst 100 (AAS)
• Shimadzu-1601 2-way UV/VIS
• Perking Elmer, Lambda BIO UV/VIS
• Genesys 20 Spectrophotometer
• Varian 640 IR spectrophotometer with a Varian 600 FTIR microscope
• Cary eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer
• Cary 50 UV/vis spectrophotometer

Electrochemical analysis

• Electro voltammetry (self constructed)
• Radiometer Conductometer CMD 210
• Solortron impedance analyser, SI1260
• Malvern Zetamaster S
• Beckman, Pace system MDQ, (Capillary electrophoresis)

Other analyses

• Contact angle equipment
• Refractometer, PZO RL 2830 for liquids
• Radiometer auto titrator Titralab, tim 900
• Microtrac 7997-10, particle size analyser
• Photometric Dispersion Analyser 2000