Plastic and Bioplastic Materials Laboratory
Ascolta
Equipments for polymer processing (laboratory scale)
- Laboratory mixer
- Extruders (single screw, twin screw, minilab) with different heads (film blowing, film casting) even with co-extrusio systems
- Injection moulding machines
- Pressofusion systems
- others (sample cutter, granulator, electric saw, precision balances)
- Rheological analysis laboratory
- Parallel plate rheometer
- Capillary viscosimeter
- Non-isothermal elongational rheometer
- Isothermal elongational rheometer
- Melt flow index
- Intrinsic viscosity apparatus
Mechanical characterization laboratory
- Dynamic-mechanical-thermal analysis (DMTA)
- Static mechanical properties (INSTRON) including an equipment for compression in constant-temperature liquid environment
- Impact test machine
Chemical treatment
- Polymer processing by solvent techniques
- Synthesys of polymers and fillers
- Surface chemical modification in wet and dry chemistry techniques (plasma reactor)
- Chemical analysis equipments (FT-IR, ATR spectrometers)
Photooxidation facilities
- Equipment for controlled photo-oxidation of polymers (QUV)
- Equipment for thermal, photoxidative and mechanical degradation
Structural and morphological characterization laboratory
- FTIR with micro-ATR spectrophotometers
- UV spectrophotometer