Material manufacturing and design

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

Abrasion resistance

Suspending matter in air against gravity using acoustic radiation pressure from high intensity sound waves. Model: Tec5 100khz levitator with reflector and free jet nozzle

Liquid Chromatography (LC)

R&D Steam Retort

Analytical balance with accuracy up to 0.0001g with a maximum weight of 120 g. Model: MS104S

Asylum research JUPITER XR AFM. Compatible with liquid imaging and nanomechanical testing.

Two independently controlled precision syringe pump channels with programmable step-rate functionality, flow rates from .0001 µL/min to 170.5 mL/min and holds syringes between 0.5mL to 100mL. Model: Chemyx Fusion 4000

Pulp testing, determination fibre size distributions in 5 bins

Double beam UV-Vis  spectrophotometer for liquids and solids.

Particle production through the transformation of a fluid/suspension material into dried particles

CL-5 pelletization equipment (10 kg/hr)

Rheological and extrusion properties

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

centrifugation

Nikon Ti Eclipse Confocal Microscope. Optical imaging technique

Cooling suspensions up to -11 oC

do basic voltage measurements

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

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measures the heat flow into or from a sample as it is heated, cooled or held under isothermal conditions.

Viscosity measurement

Viscoelastic characterization of polymers

thin film characterization

Creating different environment for biomass storage

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

Measures fiber length, width, curl, % numeric fines and kink in diluted pulp samples. Also provided fiber length distribution

Tension measurements

Molecular devices Spectramax Gemini EM (bottom & top reading)

Foam characterization

GE (Cytiva) Akta Pure 25 M1

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

Solvent/water removal

spectral analysis

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

Circulated water bath with a temperature range of 10 - 200 °C. Model: ISOTEMP 6200 H24

Pilot Scale - upto 1800°C

Scanning electron microscope: variable pressure SEM imaging on non-coated samples, energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis

To create stable emsulsions, suspensions, etc

Open source TEM tomography data reconstruction and basic modeling

TEM tomography data reconstruction

Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC

potentiostat/galvanostat/ZRA is designed for a wide range of applications designed to fit your needs. It is ideal for corrosion measurements, battery testing, sensor development, and physical electrochemistry. It is the perfect blend of performance and value

Size reduction - grinder

Horizontal tensile strength testing for paper. Up to 200 N

color spectrophotometer

produce fine particles from 40 to 100μm

Automated freeze substitution machine for cryo-fixed/chemically-fixed samples

Automated simultaneous labelling of up to 24 grids, capable of using up to 24 different primary antibodies in one run

Cryo-fixation/immobilization of biological samples, 2100 bar of high pressure applied to the sample to suppress ice crystal formation and growth, capable of vitrification up to a thickness of 200 µm

Ultramicrotome: cryo-ultramicrotome

Particle size analyzer: Particle characterization from the nano- to the micrometer range

Dispersion characterization (size and stability)

Rheology (flow) measurements

Dispersion and powder sizing

grinding (ultra-fine particle production)

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

optical analysis

Fibre fractionation. Several screen baskets included.

Bursting strength. Multi-directional tensile test to identify failure.

 Lab scale, high pressure microfluidizer for particle reduction applications

High Speed (3000rpm) electrospinning device 

Pilot scale (160 needle) 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

Particle Image Velocimetry. Flow visualization, laser-based imaging techniques.

Spinning disk confocal microscope: high-speed multi-color image acquisition with spinning disk, 6 laser lines and high-sensitivity EMCCD camera

Model: Orion Star A215

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

Model: RC-5 Sorvall F-16/250

Repulper, upto 5% consistency, 10L

Rheological properties, UV, Polarized microscopy

Rheological behavior analysis

Pulp tesing, drainage evaluation

Fiber spinning

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

UV-Vis and fluorescence measurements (microtiter plate)

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

Micro/nanoparticle generation

Studying molecular interactions (binding events)

Bath sonicator, Model: 97043-940 (VWR)

Texture analyzer

High temperature tar removal unit

Thermal Conductivity Instrument for foams and films

Programmed weight loss analysis

Thermogravimetric Analyzer (Monitor the mass of a substance as temperature changes)

Store biomass in higher than ambient temperatures and analyze their gas emission.

Surface/interface tension and contact angle measurements

Fully automated, capable of processing small and large samples (up to 11.5 cm diameter)

Catalyst synthesis; Sample preparation

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).

centrifugation

Use to clean sample surface before using QCM-d.

Measuring light absorbance across the ultraviolet and visible ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum

Paper testing, vertical tensile measurement

Confocal/optical microscopy image processing and analysis

Water vapor transmission

Micro-CT (3D imaging)

Paper testing, zero span tensile tester