Self-use equipment
MatChar's infrastructure includes new laboratory space in the Advanced Research Complex at uOttawa, that benefitted from a $16.4M grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for the project “Advanced Materials: From Designer Molecules to Transformative Devices”, led by Tito Scaiano.
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Self-use equipment
Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
Capabilities of the Q5000 TGA
- Provides users with such information as compositional analysis of multi-component materials, thermal stabilities and oxidative stabilities.
- Allows for the determination of moisture and volatiles content
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
Capabilities of the Q2000 DSC
- Phase transitions of polymers, including glass transition, melting and crystallization
- Heat capacity, melting point, crystallization and glass transition temperatures
- Degree of cure and residual cure of the resins
- Thermal performances and thermal histories of materials
FT-IR / ATR
Capabilities of the Thermo Scientific Nicolet 6700 FTIR/ATR
- Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) accessory available to allow for fast, non-destructive analysis of samples with little or no sample preparation
- Material identification of organic films, particles, powders and liquids (e.g. polymer, resins, fibers, paint, Oil, etc.)
- Identification of contaminants on surfaces (sub-µm scale)
Electrochemistry
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, chronocoulometry
- Bulk electrolysis
- Charge/discharge
- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
LC-MS
- Our new Agilent InfinityLab Liquid Chromatography/Mass Selective Detector (LC/MSD) system uses the power of mass selective detection to enhance analytical confidence. The single quadrupole LC/MSD system is running in parallel to the Infinity II LC system.
Cary 60 (UV-VIS)
The Cary 60 UV-Vis spectrophotometer has a wavelength range of 190–1100 nm that can be scanned in under three seconds. Our flexible UV-Vis spectrometer can be fitted with long pathlength cuvettes and solid sample transmission or reflectance accessories.