Access to some of these facilities is through the laboratories in the School of Materials Science and Engineering

• Mechanical testing (tensile, compression, flexure, microhardness,
  nanohardness)
• Triboogical testing (wear and scratch testers)
• Thermal testing (DSC/TGA, dilatometer, laser flash)
• High-temperature mechanical testing (Gleeble)
• Particle size measurement (Laser diffraction)
• Zeta potential measurements
• Surface area measurement (BET)
• Density measurement (He-pycnometry)
• Colour measurement unit
• Optical microscopes
• Table-top scanning electron microscope