The Translational Polymer Research Group has on-site and external facilities. Browse the full list of facilities.

• Facilities within TPRG labs
• External facilities
• External Chemical Characterisation & Synthesis facilities

Facilities within our labs

Extruders

• Prism twin-screw compound extruder (16 mm diameter)
• Eurolab twin-screw compound extruder (16mm diameter)
• LabTech twin-screw compound extruder (16mm diameter)
• Haake Mini-extruder (twin-screw)

Film Blowing

• Axon Film blowing extruder and tower

Granulation

• Pan Granulator

Mixing

• Ultrasonic mixer – probe sonicator

Sample Preparation

• Hot press compression moulders x 2

Rheology

• Rheometers
• Rheometrics Low shear ARES rheometer
• Slit die rheometer
• Rheoscope rheometer by Haake
• Multipass Rheometer (MPR)
• Viscometers
• Brookfield viscometer
• Cannon-Fenske routine viscometers sizes 25, 50

Thermal Analysis

• Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA/DMA) - Rheometrics
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) - TA Instruments DSC

Tensile / Compression / Bending

• Instron universal tester
• Various load cells for tensile, compression, bending tests
• Moisture analysis
• Mettler Toledo Moisture Analyser
• Sartorius Moisture Analyser

Film barrier properties

• MOCON O2 barrier property testers
• MOCON H20 barrier property testers

Centrifuge

• Heraeus Instruments Biofuge Primo centrifuge

SEC/GPC

• Agilent GPC with RI (Refractive Index) & viscometer

Weatherometer

• QUV Weatherometer

Simulation software

• Extrusion
• Flowsolve flow simulation software
• Atomistic modelling software
• Polyflow software

Other

• Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) apparatus

Facilities outside of our labs

Extruders

• Entek twin-screw compound extruder (27 mm)
• Axon single screw extruder
• Haake Polylab twin screw extruder system (19mm) x 2
• Haake coextruder steup (19 mm)

Injection Moulding

• Demag 80 tonne injection moulder
• DSM mini injection moulder

Rotomoulding

• Uniaxial rotational moulder

Mixing

• Brabender batch mixer (Partec)

Sample Preparation

• Compression moulder

Rheology

Rheometers:

• Rheometrics Low shear ARES rheometer
• Rapid Visco Analyser

Tensile / Compression / Bending

• Instron tensile testers x 2 (Long Pocket)

Microscopy

• Optical Microscope
• Hot stage microscope (74-211 and CNAFS)

Impact testing

• Charpy impact test instrument

Chemical Characterisation & Synthesis

Vibrational analysis

• Nicolet 5700 ATR-FTIR
• Nicolet 5700 FTIR-NIR
• FT-Raman
• Dispersive Raman Microscope
• FT-SPR module
• Grazing angle accessory
• Grazing angle ATR
• High Pressure ATR cell
• Diamond ATR accessory

NMR spectroscopy

• Solid State
• Microimaging
• Solutions Chemistry
• Solution CMR

HPLC

• Waters HPLC

Thermal analysis

• TGA
• DMA
• DSC

Lasers

• 157 nm F2
• 193 nm ArF

Centrifuge

• Hermule Z323

GC-MS

• Trace GCMS

Ellipsometers

• JA Woolam VUV Vase
• Gaertner

SEC/GPC

• GPC x 2
• Waters GPC with inline Wyatt MAL

LCMS/MS

• Waters LCMS/MS

UV-VIS

• Cary 4000
• UV/Vis Plate Reader (Tecan)

Fluorescence

• Horiba Fluoromax-4
• Fluorescence Scanner (Tecan)

UV Exposure

• Runray 600
• Sematech Exposure Tool

Spin Coaters

• POLOS Coater
• Chemat Coater

Glove Box Station

• M-Braun Station

Parallel Synthesis

• MT Multimax

Flash Chromatography

• Buchi Sepacore

Plasma

• Low poser plasma deposition

XPS

• Kratos

AFM

• Various - CMM + BnDF

SEM

• CMM

TEM

• CMM

XRD

• WAXS and SAXS