RHEOMETERS

Stress-Controlled Rheometer

• 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

 

• Rheoscope (Haake, Germany)

• • • • • Temperature: 0-90ºC
        • Sensors: Plate-Plate and Cone-Plate
        • Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
        • Microscopy at real time

 

• Mars II (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

 

• RS-100 (Haake, Germany)

  

  • Temperature: 0-90ºC
  • Sensors: Plate-Plate and Cone-Plate
  • Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.

 

 

Strain-Controlled Rheometer

• ARES (TA instruments, USA)

• • • Temperature: -30-250ºC
    • Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate
    • Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
    • Oven and Peltier system

 

• RSA3 (TA instruments, USA)

• • • • • • Sensors: Dual cantilever and three point bending
          • Temperature: -30-250ºC
          • Oscilatory and transitory tests.
          • Chiler cooler

 

Speed-Control Rheometer

• lRV20 – CV20 and CV100 (Thermo-Haake, Germany)

  • • Sensors: ME15, ME30 and ME45.
    • Flow tests.
    • Temperature: 0-90ºC

 

Extensional Rheometer

• CaBER 1 (Haake, Germany)

 

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

 

 

DISPERSED SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS

DLS systems

• Malvern Mastersizer 2000 (Malvern, UK)
  

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

 

• Zetasizer (Malvern, UK)

   

• Zeta potential
• Particle nanometer determination
• Temperature control

 

• Turbiscan (Formulation, France)

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

 

INTERFACIAL CHARACTERIZATION

• Sigma 701 Tensimeter (KSV, Finland)

 

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

• Tracker (Teclis, France)

  

 

• Drop tensiometer
• Surfactant adsorption
• Oscillatory measurements
• Oil/water, air/water measurements

 

•  Brewster angle microscopy (KSV, Finland)

 

• Laser difraction

DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS

MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION

• MTS Insight 10 KN

• • • Maximium load: 10KN
    • Thermal chamber: 20-300ºC
    • Tension and compression tests

 

SAMPLE PROCESING

• 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

Electrospinning facilities

– Fluidnatek LE-50 (Bioinicia, Spain)

 

• 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

 – Customized device

• Collector
  • • • • • High voltage source
          •  Syringe pump

 

EMULSIFICATION DEVICES

• Ultraturrax-T25

 

• • • •   Rotor-Stator Homogenizer
      •   Rotation speed: 6500-24000 rpm.

 

•  Ultraturrax T-50

  

  • •   Rotor-Stator Homogenizer
    •   Rotation speed: 2000-10000 rpm.

 

• 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

• 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