Bulk Material and Thin Film Testing Facilities

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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

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