Polymer Science Group

Facilities

• Thermal Analysis
  • Perkin Elmer Pyris-1 modulated DSC system (N2-cooled)
  • 2 Perkin Elmer DSC-7
  • Mettler-Toledo DSC TA Instruments (2910 N2-cooled), (2920 Refrigerated)
  • Nikon Light Microscope with Mettler Hot Stage
  • Fiber/Film DMA apparatus
  • Conventional and high pressure sample preparation
• Diffraction & Scattering
  • PAD SCINTAG 2-circle diffractometer with custom temperature stages
  • 4-Circle Huber Fiber Diffractometer
  • Small Angle X-ray Scattering
  • Wide and Small Angle Neutron Scattering: HFIR
  • Wyatt Technology Spectrometer for MW characterization with GPC
• National & International Facilities
• NSLS (BNL): X-14 beamline, bending magnet PRT member since 1981
• IPNS (ANL): elastic and inelastic neutron scattering
• ISIS (RAL, UK): elastic and inelastic neutron scattering
• APS (ANL): UNI-CAT joint member
• (FUTURE)
  • SNS (ORNL): Spallation Neutron Source "Liquid and Disordered Materials Diffractometer"
• LANSCE (LANL): HIPPO powder diffractometer
• Computation
  • 5 SGI Workstations
  • 4 IBM RS/6000 Workstation Cluster
  • Super Computers
• Additional Resources
  • University of Tennessee:Access to numerous technologies for the determination of morphology development and crystallization kinetics, as well as processing, biaxial film stretching, and mechanical properties testing, are maintained through collaborations with University of Tennessee faculty in materials science and the ATHAS facility.
  • ORNL maintains a state of the art Materials Science Facility (HTML) housing numerous imaging technologies (ultrastructure) and mechanical properties testing. Access to FTIR (near and far IR) is also available via ORNL collaborations.