Material Characterization Laboratory

The Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) is an interdisciplinary research facility in the Department of Chemistry. The MCF provides simulating environment for a research community across the campus, and houses advanced equipment to support research in the high-quality fundamental interdisciplinary research programs in materials science. The major themes of research carried out in the MCF are porous materials and surfaces, nano-scale interfaces and structures, gas storage and uptake, polymeric materials, materials science, catalysis, and nanotechnology. The research activities that are facilitated by the laboratory can be divided into four major areas: porous systems for gas storage and separations, materials for catalysis, polymeric systems, and nanotechnology.

It contains 200 square meter of laboratory space in two separate buildings (Buildings 4 and 75) and state-of-the-art physisorption, chemisorption and thermogravimetric analysis instrumentations, and gel-permeation chromatography. The laboratory currently houses three GPCs for analysis of polymeric materials.

About The Materials Characterization Laboratory