Material manufacturing and design

Pilot Scale - Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Build dimensions: 1000 x 1000 x 700 mm

Abrasion resistance

microprocessor-controlled ultramicrobalance capable of weighing samples to a resolution of 0.1 µg.

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)

Image processing and 3D modeling of TEM tomography, confocal, microCT, MRI, Dual beam/SEM and various other types of data

Paper sheet former that creates single to multilayered sheets using different pulp types (contains four separate stock chambers).

Specific surface area measurement

This procedure applies to the measurement of starch viscosity under various experimental conditions by Brabender Viscograph-E. NaCl is used to adjust the ionic strength

CL-5 pelletization equipment (10 kg/hr)

Rheological and extrusion properties

Confocal/optical microscopy image processing and analysis, deconvolution of fluorescent images

Cooling suspensions up to -11 oC

Dionex dual pump High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography system with Pulsed Ampiometric Detection for carbohydrates

conduct proximate analysis and measuring volatile content of material / thermal characterization of biomass

Mechanical properties

Standard tumbler tester

Viscoelastic characterization of polymers

Tearing strength testing for plastic films, paper, other thin materials

Transmission electron microscope: conventional TEM imaging, cryo-TEM, 3D electron tomography, correlative light and electron microscopy

Plunge-freezing of aqueous (colloidal) suspensions for cryo-TEM imaging

Open source scientific image processing/analysis

Molecular devices Spectramax Gemini EM (bottom & top reading)

GE (Cytiva) Akta Pure 25 M1

Freeze drying at below ‒50 °C at below 0.133 mBar

Solvent/water removal

Solid sample to test surface functional groups

Gas permeability

Liquid sample test to identify mostly organic compounds

flexible former with vacuum to simulate the actual papermaking process.

Papermaking, gravity draingage, 16cm diamter circular sheets, partly automated operation, under repair

heating and drying oven

Transmission electron microscope: conventional TEM imaging, negative staining electron microscopy

Homogenizing, mixing

Apply high pressure to samples at high temperature

Barrier properties

multimode plate reader

Fourier-transform infrared for compounds analysis

Liquid sample test to measure water concentration

Nano Scale - Evaluate tensile properties, load cell 0.5-5 kg

Bench-top spectrophotometer to measure the colour of solid, pasty granular

Paper surface testing, exact thickness measurements

Available to keep cells and tissue cultures for live-cell imaging

Targeted and untargeted metabolite profiling

Fully automated, capable of producing a homogenous metal or carbon coat for both TEM and SEM imaging, glow discharge for rendering TEM grids hydrophilic

Produces 45° glass knives from 6.4, 8 and 10 mm thick glass utilizing the balanced-break method

Ultramicrotome: cryo-ultramicrotome for cutting frozen samples for the Tokuyasu technique for immunolabelling, and for high-pressure frozen samples for cryo-electron microscopy for vitreous sections. FC7 cryo-chamber maintains the temperatures as low as -160C

Vibrating blade microtome, produces thick sections (> 5 um) of fixed or fresh tissue without freezing or embedding in resin for light microscopy

Mechanical refining at LC. Refiner includes several plate patterns. Refining loop includes a 260 L repulper and 4000 L tanks.

Offers particle size, particle charge (zeta potential) and molecular weight analysis. Model: ZEN36000 ZS

Dispersion and powder sizing

Modular Compact Rheometer: to measure the rheological properties of materials

Lab. Scale - Melt Extrusion/Blown Machine -  up to 6 kg/hour

Paper surface testing, smoothness/roughness measure

 Material manufacturing and particle generation

Device used to physically interact with a sample under a microscope when high precision movement is required. Model: Eppendorf Micromanipulator 5171

Extrusion

Universal Mechanical testing (Force -deformation charcaterization)

Belt type (30x100 cm) electrospinning device 

Drum type (30x30 cm) electrospinning device 

Pilot Scale (Needleless) electrospinning device 

Light/fluorescence microscope: upright configuration wide field microscope, brightfield imaging with darkfield option, phase contrast/DIC imaging, widefield fluorescence microscopy, fully motorized stage ideal for image stitching and tiling, both color & high sensitivity black and white CCD cameras

Stereomicroscope: dissections and viewing objects at low magnifications, brightfield/darkfield transmitted LED light, reflected light (objective-mounted fiber optic light source), high resolution color

LUMICKS C-Trap G2; dual-trap optical tweezers for force spectroscopy at single-molecule resolution

Measuring heating value of the sample as part of chemical characterization of biomass

Microwave technology facilitates the rapid sample processing from fixation to resin infiltration

Beating of chemical/mechanical pulps for defibrillation. Small quantities ~ 25 grams

Open air cold plasma treatment system

Probe homogenizer equipped with probe for larger sample volumes (up to 1000 mL), and microtip for small samples. Model: Branson Sonifier SFX550

Pulp testing, measurement of shives content

monitor small mass changes on the surface of a coated quartz crystal.

Reactor with in-situ FTIR

Ultramicrotome: standard ultramicrotome

Rheological properties, high pressure cell

Rheological properties

Pulp tesing, drainage evaluation

Fiber spinning

provides illumination approximating natural sunlight to test of solar cells, sun screen, plastics, and other materials and devices.

Pellet production line 200 kg/h

Laurel Technologies create uniform thin coatings

0.7 cu ft in size, operates at atmospheric pressure, or at a vacuum up to 30'' Hg. Temperature range of 35 - 220 °C Model: Cole-Parmer Stable Temp

Bath sonicator, Model: 97043-940 (VWR)

Texture analyzer

High temperature tar removal unit

Thermal Conductivity Instrument for foams and films

Programmed weight loss analysis

Moisture and ash content measurement

Thermal stability analysis

Provides compressive strength for a variety of materials

Lab. Scale - upto 1000°C

Generation of emulsions, (micro)droplets, and particles (single cell/cell sorting experiments)

The FT174X is a modular HTST/UHT processing system designed to treat products at flow rates of 10-40 l/hr or up to 60 l/hr for water (or similar low viscosity products).

Mixing and homogenization

UV-Vis analysis

Lab. Scale - upto 280°C

Detector for small angle xray diffraction (XRD)

Microwave Vacuum Drying system

Water vapor transmission

Advanced visualization and imaging using x-ray. Diversity on sample testing (paper, foams, minerals, biological samples, etc).