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EQUIPMENT

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Polymer Processing Equipment

• Killion, Hartig, Akron Milacron, and National Feedscrew 0.75 – 1.75” extruders
• W&P, Leistritz, JSW, and Farrel twin-screw 30-37mm extruders
• extruder with film casting system
• Fong Kee blow molder
• Van Dorn, Boy, and Newbury injection molders
• Hydrotrim vacuum molder
• Compression molding presses
• CW Brabender laboratory mixers
• Moriyama and Banbury internal mixers

Sample Preparation Equipment

• MicroStar cryo ultra-microtome
• vacuum ovens
• Edwards Coating System sputter coater
• Weima America and Strand grinders

Analysis and Testing Equipment

• Bruker, Rigaku, and GE x-rays
• Hitachi and ISI SEMs
• Digital Instruments AFM
• Raman laser microscope
• Hot and cold stage light scattering microscopes
• Small-angle light scattering microscopes
• Bellingham+Stanley and Abbe refractometers
• TA Instruments TGAs
• TA Instruments, PerkinElmer, and DuPont DSCs
• Perkin-Elmer FT-IR
• Instron tensile testers
• Monsanto Tensometer
• Mooney viscometer
• Monsanto processability tester
• Bohlin and Instron capillary rheometers
• Rheometrics ARES
• Rheometrics mechanical spectrometer
• MER dynamic tester
• Haake micro rheology compounder
• DSM micro injection molder
• Iwamoto biaxial stretchers
• PerkinElmer dynamic mechanical analyzer

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