Ageing units
30 test instruments for accelerated photoageing in dry conditions - SEPAP 12.24
3 test instruments for accelerated photoageing in presence of water - SEPAP 12.24H
2 test instruments for ultra acceleration - SEPAP 50.24
1 Weather-O-Meter ATLAS CI4000 (simulation of environmental stresses)
2 Climate test chambers Vötsch VC 4034
4 Climate test chambers Secasi SLH34
11 aerated ovens for thermoageing experiments
7 reactors for hydrolytic ageing in presence of oxygen
Dynamic and Fatigue Test System (Instron ElectroPuls model E10000 (10KN))
Analysis equipments
Spectrophotometry
FTIR spectrophotometer IRTF NICOLET 510
FTIR spectrophotometer with Photo-Acoustic Detection (MTEC 200 detector on NICOLET 800)
FTIR spectrophotometer with Photo-Acoustic Detection in the Step-Scan mode on NICOLET MAGNA IR 600
FTIR spectrophotometer with ATR Detection in the thunderdome mode on NICOLET MAGNA IR 600
FTIR spectrophotometer NICOLET 800 with IR microscope NICPLAN (microspectrophotometry)
FTIR spectrophotometer NICOLET NEXUS with IR motorised microscope Continµum (microspectrophotometry)
Raman-TF spectrophotometer and micro Raman-TF spectrophotometer NICOLET 910 with Nd YV04 Laser (1064nm)
UV-visible absorption spectrophotometers equipped with an integration sphere PERKIN-ELMER Lambda 5 and HITACHI U3310
Spectrocolorimeter HITACHI U3310
Micro-spectrofluorimeter HITACHI U6000 equipped with microscope OLYMPUS BHT
Microscopy
Microscope OLYMPUS VANOX AHMT 3 equipped with SONY
video camera
Microscope LEICA Leitz DMRX with computerized acquisition
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS Nanoscope III
Chromatography
Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) WATERS 150 ALC
Gaz phase chromatography with DCI DELSI NERMAG
GPC with pyrolysor DELSI 75 PYI
GC/MS/FID Shimadzu equipped with liquid and thermodesorber/pyrolyser injectors
Mechanical properties
Dart-test
Traction
Taber abrasimeter
Charpy sheep pendulum
Roughness shore A et D
Scratch test
Permeability
O2 permeability of films and packaging samples (variable temperature and humidity) OXTRAN 2/20HL
Carbonic gaz, oxygen and nitrogen simultaneous permeability of films (variable temperature, only dry gaz)
Steam permeability of films and packaging samples (temperature and humidity variables) PERMATRAN W3/33
Caracterisation means
Melt index (fluidity grad) ZWICH/ROELL 4106
Differential calorimeter (D.S.C.)
Rotating viscosimeter with gradual speed
Karl Fischer METTLER DL18
Karl Fischer coulometer METTLER DL39
Apparatus for determining PET water content
Microtome LEICA 2055
Cryogenic microtome (Liquid Nitrigen) LEICA 2065
Miten oven CARBOLITE
Colorimeter MINOLTA CR 300
Brightness meter MINOLTA GM 060
ATG METTLER/TOLEDO 851
Diverse equipments on the Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux (Université Blaise Pascal and ENSCCF)
EPR
Liquid phase emission spectroscopy
HPLC
NMR high field
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