Soft Matter Physics Research Group

Facilities

A wide range of facilities are available to the group within the School of Physics and Astronomy, providing evalution, characterisation and testing capabilities as well as meeting workshop and scale-up requirements.

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Differetial Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Including temperature modulation

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Dynamic Mechanical Testing (DMTA)

Tension and torsion

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Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy (DRS)

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Mechanical testing

Fracture, creep, modulus
Impact testing
Gas-barrier

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Optical microscopy

Image analysis

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NMR

400MHz solid state NMR
Imaging NMR
Rheological NMR

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Rheology

Strain – and stress-controlled shear
Extensional rheology

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3D Photon correlation spectroscopy

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X-ray scattering

SAXS
WAXS

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Raman microscopy


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