Facilities

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)

Rheoscope

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

 

  • Mars II (Haake, Germany)

Mars

      • 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: -30-250ºCAres
      • 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.CV-100
      • Flow tests.
      • Temperature: 0-90ºC

 

Extensional Rheometer

  • CaBER 1 (Haake, Germany)

Caber

 

          • 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)

Tensiometer

 

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

 

SAMPLE PROCESING

  • Polylab Q (Haake, Germany)

PolylabQ

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

 

  • MiniJet II (Haake, Germany)

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

 

 

  • 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

Silverson

 

  • 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