Morphological Characterization of Polymers

• Multiple Angle X-ray Scattering Facility equipped with a rotating anode x-ray generator and a two-dimensional detector. (MAXS Facility)
• JEOL 2010F FEG HRTEM/STEM (Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
• JEOL 2010 TEM  (Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
• JEOL 6300 FEG HRSEM(Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
• Atomic Force Microscope DI Dimension 3000 (Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
• Leica Ultracut S Ultramicrotome for preparing thin specimens for TEM or smooth surfaces for SEM or AFM.
• Leica FC-S attaches to the Ultracut S for low temperature sectioning.
• Diamond knives.
• Glass knife maker.

Mechanical and Rheological Characterization Equipment

• Instron Model 5564 Table Mounted Materials Testing System (Rheology Center) – fixtures permit tensile, compression, peel and flexural testing using either a 2kN or a 10N load cell.
• Rheometrics Solids Analyzer II – fixtures available for testing fibers, films, and melts.
• TA Instruments RFS II (Rheology Center).
• Bohlin Gemini (Rheology Center).
• Haake CaBER (Rheology Center).

Thin Film Characterization of Polymer

• Ion Beam Facility equipped with a NEC 5SDH 1.7MV Pelletron Accelerator for Forward Recoil Spectrometry and Rutherford Backscattering (Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
• Rudolph Research Auto-EL Ellipsometer (Prof. Composto’s laboratory)

Thermal Characterization Equipment

• Mathis Instruments TC Probe for measuring thermal conductivity of solids and fluids.
• Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimeter – TA Instruments DSC 2920 (Dr. McGhie’s laboratory)
•  Differential Scanning Calorimeter – Perkin Elmer DSC 7 (MSE Undergraduate Laboratory)
• Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer – TA Instruments SDT 2960 (Dr. McGhie’s laboratory)

Polymer Processing Equipment

• DACA Microcompounder for melt mixing ~5 g of material
• DACA SpinLine for melt fiber spinning
• Carver hot presses (2)
• Buehler diamond saw
• Bath sonicators (2)
• Electronic balances (2)
• Glove box for handling nanotubes

Other Equipment

• Size Exclusion Chromatograph - Polymer Laboratories PL-GPC 50 (Prof. Yang’s laboratory)
• Infrared Spectrometer - Perkin Elmer System 2000 FT-IR (Dr. McGhie’s laboratory)