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Thames-Rawlins
Polymer research has state-of-the-art analytical equipment
such as:
CHROMATOGRAPHY
*Varian 500
MS System
- LC/MS/MS
and MSn capability
- Electrospray
ionization detector (ESI)
- Atmospheric
chemical ionization detector(APCI)
- Prostar
420 Autosampler
*Polymer
Laboratories PL-ELS 1000 evaporative light scattering
detector (ELSD)
- Waters
2414 refractive index detector
- Waters
1525 binary HPLC pump
- Waters
515 HPLC pump
- Waters
Millennium32 software
*Waters 510
pump, 440 UV, R401RI analytical HPLC system
*Waters 2690 HPLC/GPC analysis system
*Spectra/Chrome preparative LC
*Dual GPC size exclusion systems
- DMF 3
PL-gel columns
- THF 3
PL-gel columns
- Polymer
Labs Caliber 5.1 software
*Hewlett
Packard capillary HPLC
- 1050 pump,
1047A RI, 3396 integrator, cyano capillary column
*Spectra
Physics System reverse phase HPLC
*Hewlett Packard 6890
GC
- MSD 6890
Mass Selective Detector
- 6890 auto
sampler
- Windows
NT operating system with enhanced chemstation software
*Thermo
Finnigan Trace 2000 GC with auto sampler
- Twin
flame ionization detectors
- Fully
automated data acquisition and analysis
- Chromquest
software
*Pervaporation
unit, liquid separations using films
*Linde Gas Permeation device
COATINGS
LABORATORY
*Salt fog chamber
*Prohesion chamber
*Gardner impact tester
*Gardner minimum film forming temperature bar 90
*Fusion systems EPIQ6000 ultraviolet curing apparatus
*QUV accelerated weathering
testers
*Gardco statistical novogloss gloss meter
*Thickness gauges
- Dial
- Minitest
4000
- Fisher
permascope
- Digital
micrometer
- PosiTector
6000-FN3
- PosiTector
100 ultra-sonic multi-surface film
*Elcometer
portable adhesion tester
*Draw down bars
*Shar Incorporated high-speed mixer
*Myers Engineering high-speed mixer
*Eiger mill
*Kinetic Dispersion
Corporation Kady Mill
*VWR electric curing oven
*Teledyne taber abrader
*Paul Gardner dry time recorder
*Sward rocker hardness
tester
*BYK-Gardner
micro tri gloss meter
*Gardner EZ viscosity cups
*Norton ball mill
*Microfluidics microfluidizer
*Craftsman 6 hp 60-gallon compressor
*Gardner conical
mandrel bend tester
*Gardner mandrel bend tester
*Ford viscosity
cups
*Contact angle tester
*Hegman gauge
*Pencil scratch hardness tester
*Crosshatch adhesion tester
*Weight per gallon cups
*Gardner glossgard system
*PTC instrument durometer
*Gardner bubble viscometer
*Binks model 7 paint spray gun
*Binks model 1SL HVLP spray guns
*Forced air ventilation
paint spray booth (10’x8’x8’)
*Shar D-38 SPZ 30 gallon mixing system
*BYK-Gardner color guide 45/0º hand held colorimeter
with computer interface
*BYK-Gardner handheld
color spectrophotometer
*Little Joe one-color proofing press
*Anthony laboratory three-roll mill
*BYK Gardner byko
spectra 5 light booth
* BYK Gardner Haze
gloss system
* Gardco Sagmeter Medium Range
EMULSION
POLYMERIZATION
*Dow DCU controller,
Camile 2000
*Dual Masterflex 7518-10 console drive pumps
*Dual KD scientific RS 232, dual-syringe pumps
*Fisher isotemp 730 immersion circulator
*Mettler RC1e reaction
calorimeter
INK
PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
*Parker
Print-surf model M590 measuring 0.6 to 14.0 microns
with automatic statistical analysis, data printer, built
in calibration routines, test and calibration set, porosity
test head
*TMI ink rub tester with three speed settings
*TMI digital bench micrometer
*TMI K303 Multicoater with gravure laminating head,
engraved head, and flexo head
*IGT AIC2-5 T2000
Paper Coating Testing unit
*IGT High Speed inking
unit
*RK Flexiproof
100 Ink Proofing System
*BYK Gardner
75 degree Gloss Meter
LIGHT
SCATTERING INSTRUMENTATION
*Brice-Phoenix
universal photometer
*Brice-Phoenix differential refractometer
*Chromatix KMX-6 low-angle laser photometer with autocorrelator
interfaced to an HP-85 computer
*Chromatix KMX-16 laser differential refractometer
*Wyatt Dawn-Flow laser LSI in-line with SEC system
*2.0 mW solid-state transmission light scattering apparatus/camera
MICROSCOPY
*JEOL
JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope with Rigaku
Ultima III x-ray detector
*Carl Zeiss Transmission Electron Microscope EM 109
T, DPS
*FEI Quanta 200
environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) with
NORAN Vantage x-ray detector, Norvar crystal, Windows
NT software, lower detection limit-Beryllium
* Nanoscope® MultiMode™ scanning probe microscope
(SPM) with multiple application modules
*Dimension 3000 atomic force microscope (AFM) with NanoScope®
IIIa controller from Veeco
*Hysitron Triboindenter®
nanomechanical testing system.
*Zeiss optical polarizing microscope
*Nikon optical polarizing microscopes with video and
hot stage
*Nikon compound and dissecting microscopes with video,
35mm, and digital imaging capability
*Kodak DC290 digital microscopy system
*Leitz optical polarizing microscope
*Digital Instruments
Nanoscope IIIA Dimension 3000 atomic force microscope
(AFM) with Tektronix Phaser
*Leica EM UC6 Ultramicrotome and Cryoultramicrotome
FC6
*Bromma LKB 7800 knife maker
*Reichert-Jung FC-4E cryo-microtome
OSMOMETRY
*Knauer membrane
osmometer
*Knauer vapor phase osmometer
PARTICLE
SIZE ANALYZERS
*MATEC capillary hydrodynamic fractionation unit , (CHDF
2000 with autosampler)
*Microtrac UPA 250 Sub-micron analyzer
*Microtrac (SRA) with powder and liquid capabilities
*Coulter N4 sub-micron analyzer
*Horiba laser scattering particle size analyzer
POLYMER
PROCESSING
*Cincinnati Milacron CAMAC VSx 85-ton injection molding
machine
*Battenfield Unilog 4000 17-ton injection molding machine
*Prism TSE 16TC Bench top extruder
*Boy 15S injection molder
*Rotational molder
*Compression molder
*Pressure and vacuum forming equipment
*Extrusion facilities
- Wire
coating, ribbon, blown film, annular, and Hann Slit
dies
*Haake Rheocord
90 twin-screw extruder
*Cober model LBM 1.2A Microwave/Convection oven
POLYMER
TESTING - PHYSICAL
*MTS 810 universal test
machine with TestStar™ Digital Controller
- Variable
temperature/atmosphere chamber (-200°C to 350°C)
5 to 20,000 lb load cells
*MTS Alliance
RT/10 with DX2000 extensiometer
*Polyken Probe-Tack tester, testing machine, model 80-02
*Custom Scientific Izod impact tester
*Melt deflection testing equipment
*Kruss tensiometer`
*First Ten Angstroms FTA200 goniometer
*Tinius Olsen Izod impact tester
*Blue-M Environmental
test chamber 16 cu.ft. -73°C to 190°C, 10-98%
RH over 45°F to190°F
POWDER
COATINGS
*Henschel FM-10 premixer
*Cyclomix 5L premixer
*Werner-Pfleiderer
ZSK-30 twin-screw extruder
*Micron Powder System Bantam mill with cryogenic support
for processing
*Kemutec sieve (65-145 µm size)
*Nordson spray
booth with tribo-charging and corona-charging spray
guns
*Plastic Flame Systems powder pistol flame spray
*Dri Quick 8,000 watt infrared oven
*Raytek Raynger ST4L variable emissivity infrared thermometer
*Despatch gas oven
*Vitamixer powder mixer
*Thermoelectric Company cure plate (gel time recorder)
*Sames fluidized bed
*IKA Works Inc. laboratory analytical mill
*VWR Model 1685, horizontal air flow oven, 25 cu.ft.
capacity, 40 to 260°C temperature range
*Fostoria Industries
experimental infrared curing oven, 3 zone 6 bank variable
wavelength IR with conveyor
* Nutro combination UV/IR curing oven
*Tangent Systems, Inc. Tempest data logger. 500°F
maximum service temperature
RHEOLOGY
*Rheometric Scientific SR-5000 dynamic and steady state
testing from -40°C to 250°C including Peltier,
double wall couette, heated plates, and cup and bob
stages
TA Instruments ARES
rheometer
*Falling-ball
*Brookfield viscometers equipped with DV Gather software
*Stormer viscometer
*Rheometrics RMS 800/RDS II mechanical and dynamic spectrometer
*Seiko Instruments SDM 5600 dynamic mechanical spectrometer
with DMS110 bending/shear and DMS210 tensile modules
*Polymer Laboratories DMTA Mk III dynamic mechanical
thermal analyzer
*Haake TP-24 rheometer
*Contraves low-shear 30 viscometers
*Cannon-Ubbleholde and zero-shear viscometers
*Instron Capillary Rheometer Model 3211
*Tinius Olson Extrusion Plastometer (melt indexer)
*Custom Scientific Extrusion Plastometer (melt indexer)
*Brabender Plasticorder
*ICI cone
and plate viscometer
*Bohlin RH7 Flowmaster advance capillary rheometer
SPECTROSCOPY
– NMR
*Varian UNITY-INOVA
500 MHz spectrometer
- 3-channel
system, 2 full band 1 low band, 2 channels with waveform
generators
- Magnet
equipped with vibration isolators
- FTS cooling
system for extend -5?C operation
- VT controller
- Performa
III gradient
- 2 probes
- 2-channel
5mm standard broadband PFG probe
- 3-channel
5mm PFG inverse probe
- SUN ULTRA
10 workstation
*Varian
UNITY-INOVA 400 MHz solids spectrometer
- 3-channel
system, 2 full band, 1 low band, and 2 channels with
waveform generators
- 3 KW amplifiers
(2 AMT models, Chemagnetics 1H amplifier)
- VT controller
- MAS controller
- 2 probes
- 2-channel
7.5 mm broadband Chemagnetics CP/MAS probe, VT range
-100°C to 250°C
- 3-channel
4mm HXY Chemagnetics REDOR probe, VT range -100°C
to 250°C
- SUN ULTRA
5 workstation
*Varian
MERCURY 300 spectrometer
- 2-channel
4 nuclei system (1H, 13C, 19F, 31P)
- Performa
I gradient
- 2-channel
5mm standard broadband PFG probe
- VT controller
*Varian MERCURY
200 spectrometer
- 2-channel
4 nuclei system (1H, 13C, 19F, 31P)
- 2-channel
5mm standard broadband probe
- VT controller
*Bruker MSL-200
solids spectrometer
- Retro-fitted
with a standard broadband 2 channel Chemagnetics 7.5
mm CP/MAS probe
SPECTROSCOPY
- IR/
*Bio-Rad FTS 6000
Step-Scan spectrometer with Stingray IR imaging software
and photoacoustic and ATR attachments with UMS 500 microspectroscope
*Perkin-Elmer 1600 Series FTIR
*Nicolet IR/42 FTIR
*Digilab
Scimitar FTS-2000/UMA 400 IR Microscope with pyrolysis,
variable ATR, slide-on micro ATR analyzer, diffuse reflectance,
and specular reflectance sampling capability and 75,000
spectra searchable database
*Mettler Toledo React IR 1000 with variable optics module
for remote sensing with diamond and silicon probes
*Mettler Toledo React IR iC10 with diamond probe and
controlled heating platen
*Mattson Galaxy series FTIR with TGA interface
*FieldSpec Pro FR portable infrared spectrometer
SPECTROSCOPY
- UV/VIS
*Perkin-Elmer Lambda 6 UV/Vis spectrophotometer interfaced
to an Epson PC
SPECTROSCOPY
- MASS
*PerSeptive Biosystems MALDI mass spectrometer with
Voyager RP Biospectrometry workstation, molecular weight
in the millions, end group analysis below 25,000
THERMAL/CALORIMETRIC
ANALYSIS
*TA Instruments DSC1000
with auto-sampler
*TA Instruments TGA500
with auto-sampler
*Perkin Elmer DSC
7 photo-DSC with 450 watt low-pressure mercury lamp
*DuPont 910 DSC
*DuPont 951 thermogravimetric analyzer
*DuPont 982 DMA dynamic mechanical analyzer with 9900
data station system
*Mettler FP 80 microscope
- Programmable
hot stage
- High-speed
camera
- Bascom-Turner
4120 electronic recorder
- Mettler
Graphware 7.2 software
*TA Instruments
930 differential photocalorimeter
*TA Instruments 2920 differential scanning calorimeter
*TA Instruments SDT 2960 simultaneous DTA-TGA
*Mettler TGA 850 thermogravimetric analyzer
*Mettler DSC 30 differential scanning calorimeter
*Perkin-Elmer DSC-7 differential scanning calorimeter
with TAC 7/DX thermal analyzer controller
VIDEO
EDITING/WEB PAGE CREATION
Dell 530 Workstation
*Adobe Creative Suite 2
- Adobe
Photoshop CS2
- Adobe
Illustrator CS2
- Adobe
Indesign CS2
- Adobe
Designer 7.0
- Adobe
ImageReady CS2
*Adobe Creative
Suite Production Studio Premium
- Adobe
Premiere Pro 2.0
- Adobe
After Effects 7.0
- Adobe
Audition 2.0
- Adobe
Encore DVD 2.0
*Boris Red
Version 2.1 effects software
*Panasonic AG-DVC200 Digital video camera
*Panasonic AG-DVC2000 Digital video deck
*Dreamweaver MX
*Flash 5
*Fireworks 4
*Freehand 10
VIRTUAL
REALITY
*SGI Onyx 3400 Advanced Visualization system
WOOD
COMPOSITES
*Watlow/SRT 180
Ton Hydraulic Press w/26” x 26” heated plattens
*Henschel FM L 40
mixer
X-RAY
ANALYSIS - POWDER
*Siemens XPD-700 area detector system with GADDS PC-based
data acquisition and manipulation package with 3-axis
camera and variable temperature device (1200°C max)
*Phillips PW-1720 powder and fiber WAXD with darkroom
X-RAY
ANALYSIS - SINGLE CRYSTAL
*Rigaku AFC6S automated diffractometer with TEXSAN™
structure solution package
X-RAY
ANALYSIS - SAXS
*Siemens 18 kW rotating
anode source, super model 7616 double mirror focusing
system, 3 meter camera rail, Siemens HiStar area detector
system
MISCELLANEOUS
*Edwards short path distillation system/wiped film evaporator
*Mettler Toledo Density XS system
*Orion AF8 Volumetric Karl-Fischer water analysis unit
*Varian 109Q ESR
*Hewlett-Packard 4192A impedance analyzer with HP-85
data station
*Time resolved, single –photon counting fluorescence
spectrometer
*Nanosecond laser flash photolysis system
*Solartron 1255 HF frequency response analyzer with
1286 electrochemical interface
*Parr reactors with
300 mL and 600 mL capacity
*Spontaneous combustion apparatus - ASTM E771
*Dry ice pelletizer
*Cyclone DNA synthesizer
*Fabrication shop
- Machining
- Computer
aided manufacturing
- Quality
Control
- Welding
- Sheet
metal
- Bridgeport
CNC milling machine
*Glass shop
*Electronics
shop
- Computer
aided design
- Automated
test equipment
- Prototyping
equipment
- Analog
and digital equipment repair
*Mississippi
Polymer Institute (MPI)
SLS rapid
prototyping machines
- Computrac
Max 2000 moisture analyzer
- Atlas
HDV2 DTUL/VICAT 300°C heat distortion unit
- Arizona
Instruments MAX 2000 moisture analyzer
- Tensilkut
sample preparation unit
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