RHEOMETERS

Stress-Controlled Rheometers

Rheometer DMA-850 (TA instruments, USA)

  • Temperature: -90 – 600 ºC
  • Immersion clamps
  • Single/dual cantilever, compression, 3-point bending and dust clamps
  • Moisture control
  • Oven + chiller

 

Rheometer DHR-3 (TA instruments, USA)

  • Double peltier
  • Oven + Chiller
  • Temperature: -60 – 400ºC
  • Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate, Couette.
  • Flow, oscillatory and transitory test
  • Extentional for solids materials
  • Double wall-ring geometry available

Mars 40 (Haake, Germany)

  • Temperature: -30-150ºC
  • Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate, Couette
  • Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests

AR2000 (TA instruments, USA)

 

  • Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate.
  • Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
  • Temperature: -10-150ºC

Extensional Rheometer

CaBER 1 (Haake, Germany)

 

  • Temperature: 0-80ºC
  • Extensional capillary-roture tests
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DLS SYSTEMS

Malvern Mastersizer 2000 (Malvern, UK) (CITIUS)

 

  • Particle size distribution.
  • Range: 20mm (0.01-1000μm
  • Dispersants: Air/water

 

Zetasizer (Malvern, UK) (CITIUS)

 

  • Zeta potential
  • Particle nanometer determination
  • Temperature control

Turbiscan (Formulation, France)

 

  • Light scattering measurements
  • Backscattering sensor
  • Tube lenght 65mm

INTERFACIAL CHARACTERISATION

Sigma 701 Tensimeter (KSV, Finland)

 

  • Temperature: 0-90ºC
  • Range: 1-100m mN/m
  • Surface pressure measurements

DEVELOPMENT OF BIO-BASED MATERIALS

Polylab Q (Haake, Germany)

 

  • Torque and temperature monitor
  • Rotor: Roller 600
  • Volume mixing chamber: 73 cl
  • Ratio speed: 0-200 rmp

MiniJet II (Haake, Germany)

 

 

  • Injection mould device
  • Max. Temperature Mould: 400ºC
  • Max. Temperature Camber: 250ºC
  • Max. Pressure: 1200 Bar

REG4LIFE (regemat3d, Germany). 3D-Printing

  • Resolution real in the X e Y axis (spindel movement) = 150 μ m (0.15mm) | Resolution in Z = 400 nm (0,4 microns)
  • Theoretical resolution in the X and Y axis = 1.875 micras – 1875 nm
  • Thermoplastic extruder Nozzle output diameter 0,4 mm.
  • Syringes: Several output diameters 0,15 mm, 0,58 mm, 1,20 mm

Fluidnatek LE-50 (Bioinicia, Spain). Electrospinning

  • AC bench unit for temperature and humidity control
  • Flow regulation
  • Rotating collectors with scanning motion emitter
  • Extraction fan to exhaust solvent vapours
  • Availability of multi-nozzle

EMULSIFICATION DEVICES

Ultraturrax devices (T25 and T50)

Silverson-L5M

 

 

  • Rotor-Stator Homogenizer.
  • Rotation speed: 100-8000rpm.

Emulsiflex-C5-Avestin

 

  • Hight-pressure Homogenizer
  • Pressure: 2.7-3.5MPa; Capacity: 1-5 L/h
  • Minimun volume: 7mL

OTHER AVIABLE FACILITIES

  • Microscopy

    • SEM/CryoSEM
    • TEM/CryoTEM
    • Confocal
    • Optical

  • Ovens

    • Drying oven 2000381 (Selecta)
    • Incubator UN55 (Memmert)

  • Ubbelohde (Scott, Germany)

    • Liquid viscosity measurement.
    • Temperature range: 0-90ºC

  • Balls viscosimeter (Fungilab, USA)

    • Liquid viscosity measurement.
    • Temperature range: 0-90ºC.

  • MiniProtean IV Cell (Bio-Rad, USA)

    • SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis

  • Ultra-High-Pressure Reactor (UHP prototype)

  • 3D Bioprinter (Regemat REG4LIFE)

  • UV chamber (Biotech Bio-Link Crosslinker BLX-254)

  • Selecta centrifuge (BL-S)

  • Freezer Equitec (-40ºC)

  • Rotatory evaporator (Buchi)

  • pH meters (Crison)

  • Conductímeter Crison GLP32 (Crison Instruments S.A.)

  • Densimeter Metler Toledo (Densito 3P)

  • UV spectrophotometers

  • UV Tecan Multimode Plate Reader (Infinite 200 PRO)

  • Potentiometric Titrator (Metrohm 902 Titrando)

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