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The MRSEC Facilities Network is a nationwide partnership of NSF supported MRSEC centers designed to provide support to researchers in the broad area of Materials Research in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world.
Polymer Characterization Facility

Location: Room 7, LRSM Building
Supervisor: Dr. Andrew R. McGhie, 215/898-6461
e-mail:

mcghie@lrsm.upenn.edu


 
The materials characterization facility has been created primarily to serve the needs of the polymer IRG. It contains thermal analysis equipment, FTIR , GPC with light scattering and viscosity detectors, and other miscellaneous polymer characterization techniques.

 

  • TA Instruments 4100 Thermal Analyser with the following modules
    • 951 Thermogravimetric Analyser
    • 2960 STD simultaneous TG/DTA
    • 2920 Differential Scanning Calorimeter with modulated DSC
    • 1600oC Differential Thermal Analyser
  • Seiko Instruments Model 320 TG/DTA
  • Fisons Thermolab mass spectrometer with interface to both TA Instruments and Seiko TGAs covering the range 1-300 amu.
  • Perkin Elmer 2000 FTIR
  • Wyatt Laboratories Light Scattering Detector
  • Conventional viscometry
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