Northumbria's Synthesis and Polymer Innovation Facility has a range of equipment and technology available. Browse the list below and contact us to discuss your requirements in more detail.
| 1. |
Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| 2. |
Multidetector Gel Permeation Chromatography |
| 3. |
Thermal Gravimetric Analysis |
| 4. | Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis |
| 5. |
Instron Tensile Tester |
| 6. |
Dynamic Contact Angle Instrumentation |
| 7. |
Polymer Synthesis and Scale-up Equipment to multi kilo scale |
| 8. |
Spin-coater and Jetlab2 inkjet coater |
| 9. |
Synthetic Chemistry Facilities for Small Molecule Synthesis |
| 10. |
Filament extruder and spooler for thermoplastic polymers |
| 11. |
3D printing facility used for developing new polymers for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Multi Jet (MJ) and Digital Light Processing (DLP) |
| 12. | FTIR spectroscopy (including NIR) |
| 13. |
Surface analysis by FTIR microscopy, microspectrophotometry and confocal microscopy. Inhouse access to surface analysis by SEM. Time lapse imaging and data analysis. |
| 14. | Elemental analysis by ICP, AA and XRF (fixed and portable). Inhouse access to surface analysis by SEM-EDX |
| 15. |
Molecular analysis by HPLC-MS, GCMS and pyGCMS. “-Omic” level workflows and data analysis available |
| 16. |
Surface reflectance UV/vis, Raman and fluorescence spectrometer (including portable equipment) |
| 17. |
Controlled release leaching tank, tergotomer and dissolution baths |
| 18. |
Library access to all the leading research journals in polymer chemistry, and Reaxys database tool for structure based searching |
| 19. |
Remotely accessible, high performance PC cluster running soft matter modelling through calculations and simulations |
| 20. |
Elcometer stud-pull adhesion tester |
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