The lab available for the MaTech-CCult group members is well equipped with a wide range of analytical techniques:

  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry, DSC operating from -150°C to 600°C.
  • Simultaneous Thermal Analysis (STA), Differential Scanning Calorimeter – Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis, DSC-TGA, operating in air, nitrogen or vacuum up to 1100°C.
  • Photo – Differential Scanning Calorimetry, p-DSC, operating from 0°C to 600°C.
  • Permeability (to water vapor and oxygen) measurements for membranes and films.
  • Outdoor placed standard rack (to analyze the materials weathering).

The members of the MaTech-CCult group have also access to the following instruments:

  • Dynamometer machine (equipped with tools for tensile, flexural, compression tests) with different lead cells; the machine is also equipped with an oven to perform mechanical tests at moderate temperatures.
  • Charpy and Izod impact pendulum equipped with a load cell.
  • Optical Microscope, equipped with a hot-stage.
  • Scanning Electron Microscope, SEM, equipped with an environmental chamber and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, EDS, analyzer.
  • Wide angle X-ray Diffractometer.
  • X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, XRF.
  • UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer.
  • UV weathering chamber, QUV, equipped with UV-B type lamps.
  • Strain controlled cone and plate and parallel plate rheometer, equipped with disposable plates for analysis on thermoset polymers and tools (torsion mode) for Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis, DMTA.
  • Dynamic Light Scattering, DLS.
  • ShoreD durometer.
  • Pencil hardness instrument.
  • Planetary mill and blade mill for ceramics and polymers.
  • Dynamic contact angle, equipped with a video-camera.
  • Colorimeter.