Industry: Facilities
The PFPC has a wide array of instrumentation across the three nodes. The Centre provides a range of services to industry & research groups from short term contracts through to longer term collaborative research programs.
Rheometry
Rheometrics ARES Controlled Strain Rheometer
Rheometrics SR5 Controlled Stress Rheometer
Carri-Med Controlled Stress Rheometer
Haake Controlled Strain Rheometer
Custom made Capillary Rheometer
Intrinsic Viscometer Schott ViscoDoser AUS 20
Microscopy & Surface Analysis
Atomic Force Microscopes
OCA surface tensiometer
FTA Dynamic IFT
Surface Force Apparatus
Confocal Microscope
Zeta Potential Analyser
Micromeritics Tristar Gas Sorption Analyser
Malvern Autosizer 4700
Olympus fluorescence microscope
Inverted microscope with CCD digital camera & image processing software
Nikon PSM-2150 Microscope & light source-optical fibre
Colloid Dynamics Acoustosizer
Coulter Counter (Coulter LS130)
Brookhaven Electrokinetic Analyzer
Malvern Particle Sizer (High Performance)
Malvern Zetasizer 2000
Raman microscope
Spectroscopic Analysis
Varian CARY IE UV-Vis spectrophotometer
Varian Cary 3 UV-vis spectrophotometer
Surface Plasmon Resonance spectrometer
HP UV-Vis spectrophotometer
Varian Cary Eclipse fluorimeter
Applied Photophysics stopped-flow spectrometer
Thermal Analysis
Perkin-Elmer DSC
Perkin-Elmer TG/DTA
Perkin-Elmer TMA
Mettler Toledo Thermogravimetric Analyser
General Analysis
Quartz Crystal microbalance (frequency only)
Quartz Crystal microbalance (Q-sense)
Ion chromatography (Dionex)
Compressive strength test machine
Ultrasonic Units
Cobalt-60 source
Total Organic Carbon analysis
Gas chromatography
HPLC
Brookhaven light scattering apparatus
LUMiFuge
Continuum Mechanics Expertise
The Continuum Mechanics base within Mathematics provides analytical and simulation expertise directed at problems in sedimentation and filtration of particle networks, materials and network elasticity, and the theory of surface forces in the control of particle fluids.