Materials analysis laboratory

Chromatography:

• High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-TOF-MS) from AGILENT
• Gaz Chromatograph with Mass Spectometer and headspace (HS-GC-MS) or pyrolyzer  (pyro-GC-MS) from PERKIN ELMER
• Steric Exclusion Chromatograph/Gel Permeation Chromatography  (SEC/GPC) from WATERS

Spectrometry and chemical analysis:

• Fourier Transfom Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) from PERKIN ELMER
• IR Microscope from PERKIN ELMER *
• UV-Visible spectrometer from BIOCHROME BIOWAVE II
• RAMAN spectrometer **
• X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)**
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)**
• Liquid and Solid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)**
• Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MP-AES)**

Thermal analysis:
ATG

• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) from    METTLER TOLEDO
• Thermogravimetric Analyser (TGA) from METTLER TOLEDO

Mechanical and thermo-mechanical analysis:

• Shore A or D Durometer
• International rubber hardness degrees (IRHD)
• FISHER Micro-indenter
• Compression or tensile set
• Stress relaxation
• Abrasimeter
• Creep bench
• Dynamometers ZWICK for tensile, compression, bending, peel testing and friction. Various setups can be adapted
  • ALLROUND TABLE with a heat unit and a high elongation extensometer. 1 kN, 10 kN, 50 kN load cells
    
  • PROLINE with 50 N, 500 N and 5kN load cells
    
• Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) METRAVIB DMA 50

 Microscopies:

• HITACHI S3200N variable pressure Scanning Electron Microscope, with a BRUKER X-Ray analyser.
• Stereomicroscope (binocular microscope)
• Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) **
• JEOL Transmission Electron microscope (TEM)**

Aging tests:

• MEMMERT ovens
• BINDER climate-controlled chambers (accelerated aging with controlled temperature and moisture) 240 L
• Aging in liquids
• UVA aging test chamber (QUV)

Soxhlet   
DMA   
LC-TOF-MS   
GC-MS

Miscellaneous equipments:

• Karl-Fisher titrator
• Potentiometric titrator
• Soxhlet Extraction
• Specific Surface Area (BET)**
• LASER granulometry**
• Profilometer/Roughness measurment**

OCA20 Goniometer from Data Physics:

• Contact angle
• Surface energy
• Pendant drop
  

Fire tests:

• Measurement device for the limiting oxygen index (LOI, according to the ISO 4589-2 FTT AIS) Standard

SYSTECH INSTRUMENTS  permeability analyzers*:

• Oxygen permeameter
• Water vapor permeameter

* : at CTTM, property of Ligépack

** : equipments at Le Mans Université (IMMM  and IUT)