Facilities
RHEOMETERS
Stress-Controlled Rheometer
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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
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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
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Rheoscope (Haake, Germany)
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- Temperature: 0-90ºC
- Sensors: Plate-Plate and Cone-Plate
- Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
- Microscopy at real time
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- Temperature: -30-150ºC
- Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate, Couette
- Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests
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AR2000 (TA instruments, USA)
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- Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate.
- Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
- Temperature: -10-150ºC
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RS-100 (Haake, Germany)
- Temperature: 0-90ºC
- Sensors: Plate-Plate and Cone-Plate
- Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
Strain-Controlled Rheometer
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ARES (TA instruments, USA)
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- Temperature: -30-250ºC
- Sensors: Plate-Plate, Cone-Plate
- Flow, oscilatory and transitory tests.
- Oven and Peltier system
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RSA3 (TA instruments, USA)
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- Sensors: Dual cantilever and three point bending
- Temperature: -30-250ºC
- Oscilatory and transitory tests.
- Chiler cooler
Speed-Control Rheometer
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lRV20 – CV20 and CV100 (Thermo-Haake, Germany)
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- Sensors: ME15, ME30 and ME45.
- Flow tests.
- Temperature: 0-90ºC
Extensional Rheometer
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- Temperature: 0-80ºC
- Extensional capillary-roture tests
DISPERSED SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS
DLS systems
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Malvern Mastersizer 2000 (Malvern, UK)
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- Particle size distribution.
- Range: 20mm (0.01-1000μm
- Dispersants: Air/water
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Zetasizer (Malvern, UK)
- Zeta potential
- Particle nanometer determination
- Temperature control
- Turbiscan (Formulation, France)
- Light scattering measurements
- Backscattering sensor
- Tube lenght 65mm
INTERFACIAL CHARACTERIZATION
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Sigma 701 Tensimeter (KSV, Finland)
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- Temperature: 0-90ºC
- Range: 1-100m mN/m
- Surface pressure measurements
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Tracker (Teclis, France)
- Drop tensiometer
- Surfactant adsorption
- Oscillatory measurements
- Oil/water, air/water measurements
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Brewster angle microscopy (KSV, Finland)
DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS
MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION
- MTS Insight 10 KN
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- Maximium load: 10KN
- Thermal chamber: 20-300ºC
- Tension and compression tests
SAMPLE PROCESING
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Polylab Q (Haake, Germany)
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- Torque and temperature monitor
- Rotor: Roller 600
- Volume mixing chamber: 73 cl
- Ratio speed: 0-200 rmp
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MiniJet II (Haake, Germany)
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- Injection mould device
- 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
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- High voltage source
- Syringe pump
EMULSIFICATION DEVICES
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- Rotor-Stator Homogenizer
- Rotation speed: 6500-24000 rpm.
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Ultraturrax T-50
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- Rotor-Stator Homogenizer
- Rotation speed: 2000-10000 rpm.
- Rotor-Stator Homogenizer.
- Rotation speed: 100-8000rpm.
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- Hight-pressure Homogenizer
- Pressure: 2.7-3.5MPa; Capacity: 1-5 L/h
- Minimun volume: 7mL
OTHER AVIABLE FACILITIES
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Microscopy
- SEM/CryoSEM
- TEM/CryoTEM
- Confocal
- Optical
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Ubbelohde (Scott, Germany)
- Liquid viscosity measurement.
- Temperature range: 0-90ºC
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Balls viscosimeter (Fungilab, USA)
- Liquid viscosity measurement.
- Temperature range: 0-90ºC.
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MiniProtean IV Cell (Bio-Rad, USA)
