Organic/polymer chemistry labs
Fumehoods equipped with glassware, schlenk lines, vacuum pumps, stirrers, rotavapors, balances, mixing equipment, solvent drying equipment, moisture balance, Kugelrohr, rotavapors, thermostats/crystats, (vacuum) ovens, ultrasound equipment (bath and probe), pH electrode, freeze drier
Synthesis and purification
Flash chromatograph, microwave, Parr reactors (high T/P), UV/LED curing equipment (oven, probe), melting point detection
Polymerization reactors
From small scale till liter scale, including high duty equipment with a heavy stirrer and possibility to build up pressure (Juchheim reactor)
Fiber spinning
Bi-component wet spinning line, melt spinning equipment, electrospinning equipment, fiber coating line
Polymer processing
Cryo-mill, ball mill, sieving tower, mini-extruder with injection moulding, compression moulding, 20 mm single-screw extruder, 18 mm twin-screw compounder, hot press, spincoater
Coatings
Speedmixer, automated film applicator with vacuum table, color and gloss measurement, abrasion and washability resistance, Hegmann gauge, rotation viscosimeter, layer thickness (metal and non metal), adhesion (cross cut and pull-off test), impact (falling ball), pencil hardness, drying time recorder, contact angle, permeability (Payne beakers), grindometer 0 – 100 micron, solution viscosity Din 4 and 7300
Organic and polymer characterization
- Chemical: TLC, 300 MHz NMR, LC-MS with UV and ELSD detection, GC-MS, GC-FID, GPC on HFIP, DMF and THF, titration (potentiometric, conductometric, colorimetric, Karl Fisher), Übbelohde solution viscosimeter, UV-VIS with Peltier element, FTIR/NIR (imaging) microscope + temperature dependent ATR and Linkam adapter stages, access to fluorescence
- Polymer characterization – physical : Brookfield melt viscometry, stress controlled rheometer with DMA setup, strain controlled rheometer with optics, DMTA, DSC, flash DSC, TGA, optical microscopy with Linkam adapter stages
- Mechanical characterization of polymers: tensile tester with humidity chamber, access to impact testing, melt flow index, HDT/Vicat hardness
- Linkam hot stage, micro-tensile stage and shear cell (in combination with optical and FTIR microscopy and synchrotron X-ray sources)