Chemistry and Materials Technology - Equipment

Sample preparation

• Climate chambers for sampling of chemical emissions 1 m³ - 23 m³
• Electrochemical surface treatment (anodic oxidation)
• FLEC - Field and Laboratory Emission Cells for measurements of chemical emissions from surfaces
• Precision equipment for cutting and polishing
• Plastic extruder

Press for embedding of samples in epoxy

• Heat press for plastics 200^oC
• Mill grinders
• Planar microtome for cutting down to 2 micrometer slices
• Reaction cell for thermal and photochemical ageing with isotope specific gases e.g. 18O
• Roll mill for rubbers and plastics
• Spin-coater for production of thin films from solutions
• UV and ozon source for oxidative cleaning of surfaces

Durability

• Accelerated weathering equipment (UV, xenon light/Weather-Ometer)
• Cell ovens
• Climate chambers
• Climate chamber with corrosive gases
• Cyclic corrosion chambers
• Cyclic corrosion chamber for ACT testing (ACT = Accelerated Corrosion Test)
• Equipment for biological degradation
• Field station for outdoor exposure and measurement of weather data
• Heat chambers
• Ozone chambers
• Physical measurementsRelaxation equipment
• Salt spray chambers

Physical measurements

• Cobb (water absorption)
• Densitometers – reflection
• Densitometers – transmission
• Eddy current instrument for film thickness measurement
• Equipment for colour measurements/spectrophotometers
• Equipment for gas permeability
• Equipment for heat deflection temperature measurements
• Equipment for low temperature brittleness measurements
• Equipment for measurement of contact angle
• Equipment for measurement of self ignition temperature
• Equipment for measurement of steam permeability
• Equipment for measurement of Vicat
• Friction tester, flooring and paving
• Gloss meters
• Hardness meters
• Heat resistance tester for hose
• Holiday detector
• Instrument for electromagnetic inductive film thickness measurement
• Melt flow index instrument
• Micro densitometers
• Pychnometers
• Viscosimeters
• Seal strength and package integrity tester for flexible packages
• Flashpoint determination instrument
• UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer with integrating sphere

Chemical analysis

• Element analysis (CHN)
• FTIR-spectrophotometer with microscope, micro-ATR, integrating sphere and gas measurement cell
• Gas analyser with IR detection
• Gas Chromatographs with mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
• Gas Chromatographs with electron capture detector (GC-ECD)
• Gas Chromatographs with flame ionisation detector (GC-FID)
• Gas Chromatographs with thermal conductivity detector (GC-TCD)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma – mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma – optical emission (ICP-OES)
• Infrared spectrometer including ATR and microscope (FTIR)
• Equipment for measuring ash melting process
• Ion Chromatograph
• MALDI with time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF MALDI MS)
• NOx analyser
• SO2 analyser
• Convertor H2S-NH3
• Ozone analyser
• Sulphur analysers
• System for production of standard gas mixtures
• Time-of-Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for mapping of elements and chemical compounds in material, at surfaces and interfaces (TOF-SIMS)
• Equipment for Thermal desorption ATD measurement
• Equipment for sample processing with Headspace
• UV-VIS-NIR with integrating spheres
• Liquid Chromatograph with mass spectrometers (LC-MS-MS)
• Liquid Chromatograph with UV detector (LC-UV) and RI detector (LC-RI)
• Equipment for cathodic reduction

Mechanical testing

• Abrasion testers (wet-scrub and dry-scrub)
• Adhesion testers
• Equipment for stone chip resistance
• Folding testers
• Impact testers
• Scratch testers
• Tensile testers

Microscopy

• Optical microscopes with digital camera and software for digital image analysis
• Optical microscope with micrometer scale
• Stereo microscope with digital camera
• Scanning Electron Microscope with X-ray detection unit (SEM-EDX)
• Time-of-Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for mapping of elements and chemical compounds in material, at surfaces and interfaces (TOF-SIMS)

Thermal analysis

• Automatic DSC
• Bomb calorimeters
• Thermal gravimetry analyser (TGA)
• TGA, automatic for large samples