Materials Laboratory
The Materials Studies laboratory is equipped with a number of instruments for the characterisation of heritage materials:
| Analytical Instrumentation • Instron 5944 Single Column Tensile Tester with pneumatic grips and 100 N, 500 N and 2 kN load cells.
• Perkin Elmer Dynamic Mechanical Analyser with Triton Technologies Humidity Chamber
• Magritek Unilateral Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) MOUSE and Kea2 NMR Spectrometer
• Innov-X portable X-ray Fluorescence Delta Premium 4000 Spectrometer
• DeltaNu portable Raman Rapid ID with 785 nm laser |
| Microscopes • 1 x Meiji Polarized Light Microscope with transmitted and incident illumination
• 1 x Microtec RM-1 Polarized Light Microscope with transmitted illumination
• 2 x Microtec HM-3 Stereomicroscope with transmitted and incident illumination and a zoom range of 6.4:1
• 2 x USB microscopes |
| Analytical Software • Instron Bluehill 3
• PerkinElmer Pyris
• Kea Prospa
• Bruker OPUS
• DeltaNu NuSpec |
| General Laboratory Equipment • A&D GF-300 Analytical Balance, 310 x 0.001 g
• Erlab CaptairFlex Ductless Fumehood
• Pipetman® pipettes: P20, P200 and P1000
• Purite Labwater 1 with coil and gun
• Incubator: maximum temperature 100 °C
• UV Lamps |