see the lab plan here
Processing
- Micro & Nano Technology processing WB11 (see above)
- ultraprecision injection moulding using electric and ultrasonic injection technologies, high speed in-process measurements - Injection moulding - large scale WB9
- electric and hydraulic injection moulding, 2K moulding - Extrusion large scale WB10
- medium scale twin screw extrusion, precision feeders; large scale single screw extrusion; precision fibre extrusion - Precision solid phase processing WB17
- small scale die drawing and supporting precision extrusion facilities - 3-d printing WB17
- fused deposition and liquid laser curing facilities - Clean Room Suite WB13
- Reactive Extrusion, with 40:1 L/D twin screw reactive extrusion
- Nanomaterials Compounding - twin screw extruders and precision feeders
- Pharmaceuticals processing - stainless steel twin screw extrusion; microscale extrusion compounding
- Polymer battery manufacture WB15
- double extruder system - Films - Extrusion & Biaxial stretching WLB1
- cast film, blown film, film on substrate extrusion facilities; + ‘Long’ biaxial stretcher; vertical biaxial stretcher with windowed oven - Solid phase processing large scale WLB3
- large scale die drawing facilities - batch, and continuous die drawing - Electrospinning WG37
- twin stream with roller collector - Cell culture WG37
- two laminar flow units - Coating WG17
- a range of experimental coating facilties for fluid flow/ air entrapment/ rheology studies - Compression moulding WLB1, WLB3
two temperature controlled (heating and cooling) presses - Processing store WLB4
- machine elements, spares
Materials Characterisation
- Surface properties WG21
- 3 Atomic Force Microscopes, one with confocal laser microscope; 2nd confocal laser microscope; nanoindenter; - Micromechanical properties WG21
two high precision micromechanical testers - Biomomentum and Bose - Rotational & Extensional Rheometry WG21
- two high precision rotational rheometers, with add on extensional rheometry and shear cell, temperature controlled extension cell - Thermal characterisation WG21
- DSC, TGA - Spectroscopy WG33
- NIR, UV, Raman Surface Mapping - TEM WG34
- FEI/Thermo TEM - X-ray WG34
- Anton Paar SAXSpace - Micro CT WB16
- Nikon micro CT, large data storage - SEM benchtop WB11
- Hitachi bench top SEM - HPLC WG16
- Waters HPLC - Capillary Rheometry WG9
- Rosand RH10 and Rosand RH7 twin bore capillary rheometers - Norcroft Building: University Analytical Centre
- SEM/nmr/Raman microscopy/ DMA/
Materials Preparation
- cryomicrotoming WG21
- microscopy sample preparation WLB1
- chemical preparation - Clean Room WG13
- fume cupboard - Clean Room WG13
- TEM sample preparation
- Materials stores - WG18 & Loading Bay
Computer modelling
- Computer Modelling Centre WG17
- range of commercial modelling software including Autodesk Moldflow, Abaqus and in-house codes