COMMET Research Group -- Equipment

Equipment @ C o M M E T

	Rheological Equipment
		AR 1000 Rheometer (TA Instruments)
		Controlled Stress Environmental Test Chamber (-150 to 400^oC) Steady Shear, Oscillatory Shear, Creep, Creep Recovery, Superimposed Flow/Oscilllation, Multiwave Oscillation, Squeeze Flow Normal force transducer Parallel Plate, Cone and Plate, Concentric Cylinder Rheometer will be modified for the application of magnetic and electric fields
		Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (TA Instruments)
		Measures viscoelastic material properties of solid materials as a function of temperature, time, frequency, stress and strain. Creep and Stress Relaxation Measurements Optical encoded to detect low strains Broad temperature range (-150 to 600^oC) Submersion clamps for liquid media Single / dual cantilever, 3 point bending, compression, tension, shear sandwich
	Thermal Equipment
		Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TA Instruments)
		Maximum temperature 1000^oC .1mg sensitivity Gas switching Modulated

	Dynamic Scanning Calorimeter (TA Instruments)
	Temperature range of -180 to 725^oC .2mW sensitivity Interchangeable cells Liquid nitrogen cooling Dual sample
Electrical Equipment
	DSP Lock-In Amplifier (Stanford Research Systems)
	100 dB dynamic reserve without pre-filtering Auto-gain, phase and reserve Time constants from 10 ms to 30 ks 1 mHz to 102 kHz frequency range

Voltage Preamplifier (Stanford Research Systems)