Facilities

Equipment

The equipment listed below is owned and maintained by the Winey Research Group, unless otherwise noted.  Access to equipiment in the Winey Research Group requires pre-approval of Prof. Winey. 

Morphological Characterization of Polymers

  • Kofler Bench (controlled temperature gradient)
  • Leica Ultracut S Ultramicrotome for preparing thin specimens for TEM or smooth surfaces for SEM or AFM.
  • Leica FC-S attaches to the Ultracut S for low temperature sectioning.
  • Diamond knives.
  • Glass knife maker.

Mechanical and Rheological Characterization Equipment

  • Instron Model 5564 Table Mounted Materials Testing System (Rheology Center) – fixtures permit tensile, compression, peel and flexural testing using either a 2kN or a 10N load cell.
  • Rheometrics Solids Analyzer II – fixtures available for testing fibers, films, and melts.
  • TA Instruments RFS II (Rheology Center).
  • Bohlin Gemini (Rheology Center).
  • Haake CaBER (Rheology Center).

Thin Film Characterization of Polymer

  • Ion Beam Facility equipped with a NEC 5SDH 1.7MV Pelletron Accelerator for Forward Recoil Spectrometry and Rutherford Backscattering (Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility)
  • Rudolph Research Auto-EL Ellipsometer (Prof. Composto’s laboratory)

Thermal Characterization Equipment

  • Mathis Instruments TC Probe for measuring thermal conductivity of solids and fluids.
  • Differential Scanning Calorimeter – TA Instruments Q2000 (MSE Undergraduate Laboratory)
  • Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer – TA Instruments SDT 2960 (Dr. McGhie’s laboratory)

Polymer Processing Equipment

  • DACA Microcompounder for melt mixing ~5 g of material
  • DACA SpinLine for melt fiber spinning
  • Carver hot presses (2)
  • Buehler diamond saw
  • Bath sonicator
  • Electronic balances (2)
  • Glove box for handling nanotubes

Other Equipment

  • Karl Fischer Titrator
  • Size Exclusion Chromatograph - Polymer Laboratories PL-GPC 50 (Prof. Yang’s laboratory)
  • Infrared Spectrometer - Perkin Elmer System 2000 FT-IR (Dr. McGhie’s laboratory)

 

Equipment Location and Contact Person

Room Winey Group Equipment Contact Person
All Safety and Chemical Waste Francisco Buitrago
     
10 Instron Michael O'Reilly
119 Environmental Chamber for MAXS  Tsen-Shan "Sharon" Wang
220B Hot presses  (link to calendar) Francisco Buitrago
220B Microcompounder  
220B Rheometer Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
220B SpinLine
225 Microtome (link to calendar) Francisco Buitrago
228 Diamond saw Michael O'Reilly
228 Glass knife maker Jae-Hong Choi
228 Ovens/pumps  (oil changes) Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
230 Balances Michael O'Reilly
230 Kiln Michael O'Reilly
230 Electrometer Rose Mutiso    
230 Sonicators Rose Mutiso    
230 Karl Fischer Titrator Michael O'Reilly
230 Nanoparticle Enclosure Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
231 Computers and Server Tsen-Shan "Sharon" Wang
     
  Equipment Outside Winey Group Contact Person in Winey Group
(not permitted to train new users)
7 TGA (McGhie)  
9 DSC (MatSci) Steve Szewczyk
12 Rigaku SmartLab Jae-Hong Choi
108 Accelerator Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
119 MAXS  (LRSM Facility) Jae-Hong Choi 
225 Spin Coater (Composto lab) Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
228 Ellipsometer (Composto lab) Wei-Shao "Walter" Tung
PRNF STEM:  JEOL 2010F  Francisco Buitrago
PRNF FIB:  FEI Strata DB235  Rose Mutiso
PRNF HRSEM: JEOL 7500F  
PRNF ESEM: FEI Quanta 600 FEG Jae-Hong Choi
Edison Optical Microscopes Francisco Buitrago
     

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