Our Instruments
We have a wide range of instruments to use for characterisation. Some of the equipment used by our group is listed below:
Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET)
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
Retsch Planetary Ball Mill
Thermo Scientific Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM)
Agilent Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) x4
THF, DMF, CHCl3 and Aqueous
Polymer Laboratories
Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
Liquid Chromatography
Micromeritics Helium Pycnometry
Krüss Surface Densitometer
Cole-Parmer Optical Microscope
Disc Centrifuge Photosedimentometer (DCP) 1
Disc Centrifuge Photosedimentometer (DCP) 2
Malvern Instruments Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) and ZetaSizer
UV-Vis Spectrometer with Peltier System
Agilent In Situ UV-Vis Spectrometer
LumiSizer
MasterSizer
Malvern Instruments Particle Disperser
Large Scale Reaction Vessel
SciQuip Vortex Mixer
Disc Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
TA Instruments AR-G2 Rheometer
Anton Paar MCR-502 and MCR-301 Rheometer with Shear-Induced Polarised Light Imaging (SIPLI)
Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Bruker Nanostar and Xenocs Xeuss 2.0
(see https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/small for more information)
Moisture Analyser
UV/Ozone ProCleaner
Microfluidics Microfluidiser
Bruker Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Instruments (see https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/chemistry/research/analytical-services/nmr for more information)
Frozen in Time Freeze Dryer
Beckman-Coulter Centrifuge 1
Beckman-Coulter Centrifuge 2