The Department and University have a variety of state-of-the art analytical
instruments and laboratories available for instruction and research (see
table below). REU students have access to the following:
State-of-the-art Laboratories
Available for Use in Research
-
Microscopy Laboratory
-
Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive X-ray
and image analyzer (SEM / EDX)
-
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
-
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
-
Interfacial Force Microscope (IFM, 5th one in world)
-
Mechanical and Thermal Testing Laboratory
-
MTS Mechanical Tester
-
Setaram Microcalorimeter
-
Cincinnati Micron Injection Molding Machine
-
Haake High Shear Mixer/Extruder
-
Process Design and System Analysis Computer Laboratory
-
IBM RISC / 6000 Workstations
-
AspenPlus Model Manager (steady state process simulator)
-
AspenPlus Speedup (dynamic simulator)
-
HYSYS Process (steady state and dynamic process simulator)
-
Personal Computer Laboratory (Gateway 2000 Multimedia
Pentium computers)
-
HSC software
-
Process Control Laboratory
-
Camile 3000 Controller and Data Acquisition System
-
Analytical Laboratory
-
FT-IR spectrometer with microscope
-
FT-IR spectrometer with Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR)
system
-
Raman spectrometer
-
HP 6890 gas chromatograph
-
GC-MS
-
others (UV-Vis spectrometer,AA, ICP, Ion chromatograph,
contact angle goniometer)
-
Reaction and Separation Engineering Laboratory
-
Combustion synthesis reactor
-
Centrifugal combustion synthesis reactor
-
SHS reactor
-
Gas-fired combustion furnace
-
Supercritical extractor
-
Supercritical equilibrium, and variable volume view cell
-
Supercritical reactor
|
|
