Research Centers & Facilities
Centers
Several multi-disciplinary centers and institutes at Penn complement
the research and educational programs in MSE, where our faculty
play a leading role in developing multi-disciplinary initiatives.
These include the newly funded, NSF-supported Nano Science and Engineering
Center (NSEC) directed by Prof. Dawn Bonnell, the NSF-supported
Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC –
LRSM), the State of Pennsylvania supported NanoTechnology Institute
co-directed by Prof. David Luzzi, and the Institute for Medicine
and Engineering. Links to these and other centers appear below.
Facilities
A series of state of the art centralized facilities for Materials
Research are located within the department and across campus. These
include the Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility a full-service
center equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation
for materials analysis.
Penn
Regional Nanotechnology Facility
Polymer
Characterization Facility (LRSM)
Mechanical
Testing Service Facility (LRSM)
Microfabrication
Laboratory (Electrical and Systems Engineering)
Thermal Analysis Facility (MSE)
Perkin-Elmer differential scanning calorimeter, thermal gravimetric
analyzer, and differential thermal analyzer. Dynamic mechanical
analyzer with measuring systems for 3-point bending, parallel plate,
dual cantilever, single cantilever and extension testing.
Metallography/Optical Microscopy
(MSE)
Struers RotoPol—22/RotoForce-4 systems for automatic grinding
and polishing; RotoCom/Multidoser unit for automatic polishing with
diamond suspensions. Olympus nine station optical teaching microscope
with magnifications up to 1000x and digital camera system.
Powder X-ray diffraction (MSE)
Rigaku GiegerFlex D/Max-B diffractometer with horizontal goniometer
and diffracted beam curved crystal monochrometer; Scintag PAD diffractometer
with high temperature/controlled atmosphere stage for in-situ studies.
ICCD powder diffraction files and µPDSM search/match software
for data analysis. Silicon graphics workstation with Cerius 2-4.2
modeling software for structure visualization, calculation and modeling.
GE x-ray generator for Laue x-ray diffraction single crystal orientation
studies
Particle Processing Lab (MSE)
Dispersion processing and sol-gel processing, powder size distributions,
dilatometer (Dilatronic, Theta Industries), Adsorption measurements
(Quantasorb Jr.); density/porosity measurements (Multipicnometer,
Quantachrome), surface area measurement.
High Temperature Materials Processing
Facility (MSE)
A range of furnaces for high temperature synthesis under controlled
atmosphere and vacuum environments. Single Crystal Growth: Asgal
Optical Imaging Zone Melting Furnace for single crystal growth up
to 2200°C; Czochralski Vacuum Crystal Puller. Thin Film Preparation;
high vacuum evaporators with residual gas analyzers. Mechanical
Working; Fenn rotary swager and rolling mill; cold isostatic hydraulic
press to 100,000 psi; hot pressing furnace to 2300°C and 20,000
psi. Brother programmable wire electrical discharge machine, drop
casting chamber, button arc melters, ball grinding mills, vibrating
shaker mills.
Optical
Imaging and Micromanipulation (LRSM)
Single
Crystal X-ray Diffraction (Chemistry)
Multi-Angle
X-ray Scattering Facility (LRSM)
Synchrotron
X-Ray Scattering (LRSM)
Neutron
Scattering (LRSM)
NMR
Facility (Chemistry)
Cold
Neutrons in Biology and Technology (CNBT)
Regional
Laser and Biomedical Technology Laboratories (Chemistry)
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