 | Synthesis of monomers, polymers and catalysts
All labs are equipped with vacuum/argon manifolds, Schlenk
glassware and solvent purification systems for the synthesis of
compounds under exclusion of oxygen and moisture.
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 | MBraun Gloveboxes
In our five gloveboxes we prepare and store air sensitive
compounds and catalysts under an atmosphere of purified argon
gas.
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 | Parr Pressure Reactors
The Parr reactors are used for screening of catalysts in high
pressure reactions for hydrogenation, carbonylation and olefin
polymerization. We have ten units ranging from 50 mL to 1000 mL
size.
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 | Büchi Pressure Reactors
Our two units (Polyclave and Versoclave) are fitted with high
performance thermostats, mass flow and pressure controllers and
datalogging to allow exact monitoring and control of reaction
parameters. The vessel sizes are variable from 500 to 5000 mL.
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 | Amtec SPR16
The AMTEC SPR 16 is a fully automated array of 16
small reactors and used for high throughput screening of catalysts
in solution and slurry phase.
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 | 10L Chemglass Reactor
The 10L jacketed reactor is used for the scale-up of monomer and
polymer synthesis.
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 | GC, HPLC and GPC
Gas and liquid chromatography (4 units) are used for product
analysis of reactions.Ambient temperature gel permeation
chromatography (3 units) determines molecular weight and
polydispersity of polymers in various solvents.
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 | Viscotec GPC with Triple Detector
Triple detection comprises refractive index, viscosity and light
scattering to determine the absolute molecular weights of
polymers.
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 | PolymerLabs High Temperature GPC with triple detector and FT-IR
High temperature GPC is used to measure the molecular weight and
polydispersity of polyolefins with triple detection (RI, viscosity,
light scattering). A parallel on-line FT-IR is used to determine
the amount and distribution of side chain branches or
comonomers.
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 | Polymer Char TREF/CRYSTAF
Temperature rising elution fractionation
(TREF) and Crystallization Analysis
Fractionation (CRYSTAF) are used for the fast measurement of the
Chemical Composition Distribution in polyolefins based on the
difference in crystallizability of short chain branched
polymers.
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 | Contact Angle Metre
The contact angle meter measures the surface energy and
wettability of coatings and polymer films.
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 | ThermoElectron Eurolab 16 Twin Screw Extruder
The bench size extruder is used for compounding and extrusion of
polymers with additives, polymer blends, nanocomposites and for
reactive extrusion.
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 | ThermoHaake Miniinjection Molder
The miniinjection molder forms ASTM and ISO standard samples of
polymers for tensile and DMA tests.
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 | Zwick Tensile Tester
Tensile tests record stress- strain curves and measure the
tensile strength, modulus and toughness of polymers.
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