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Materials Cluster

The Materials Cluster is a multi-function and multi-purpose Research Support Facility providing a wide spectrum of services and apparatus for materials testing, preparation, and characterization. The Cluster also provides tools that can generate images of surface or near-surface characteristics, such as topography or electronic structure, at length scales from microns down to nanometers in environments ranging from ultra-high vacuum to fluids. The CCMR facilities are run by expert staff who provide training and technical assistance. We welcome outside users from both industry and academia. 

Instrumentation: 
  1. 3i Marianas Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope
  2. Air Furnaces
  3. Asylum-MFP3D-Bio-AFM-SPM
  4. ATM Sonic sifter
  5. Bruker D8 Advance ECO Powder Diffractometer
  6. Bruker General Area Detector Diffraction System (GADDS)
  7. Bruker Hyperion FT-IR Spectrometer & Microscope
  8. Bruker Vertex V80V Vacuum FTIR system
  9. Carver 25 ton press
  10. Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer
  11. Cascade Four-Point Probe
  12. Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
  13. Edinburgh FLS1000 Lifetime Fluorescence Spectrometer
  14. Glass Bead Abrasive Units (sand blasting)
  15. High Vacuum Furnaces
  16. Inert Gas Glove Boxes
  17. JAI-LC9110NEXT-Recycling-Preparative-HPLC
  18. Jasco 1500 Circular Dichroism Spectrometer
  19. Keyence VK-X260 Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope
  20. KJL Magnetron Sputtering Tool
  21. KSV-NIMA-KN2002-Langmuir-Blodgett-Trough
  22. KSV-NIMA-KN4010-Dip-Coater
  23. Laurell-WS-400A-Spin-Coater
  24. Micromechanical Analyzer
  25. Multiwire Back-Reflection Laue Detector
  26. Novocontrol Broadband Dielectric Spectrometer
  27. Novocontrol Thermal Stimulated Depolarization Current (TSDC)
  28. PPMS Physical Property Measurement Systems
  29. Quantum Design MPMS3 SQUID Magnetometer
  30. Recycling Preparative GPC
  31. Renishaw InVia Confocal Raman microscope
  32. Rigaku SmartLab X-Ray Diffractometer
  33. Sputtering Deposition System
  34. Stationary Spot Welder (Hughes HRW250B)
  35. Struers Rotopol
  36. TA Instruments DHR3 Rheometer
  37. TA Instruments DMA Q800 Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA)
  38. TA Instruments Q1000 Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimeter (MDSC)
  39. TA Instruments Q400EM Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA)
  40. TA Instruments Q500 Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
  41. Tencor Alpha step 500
  42. ThermoFisher Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometer (CaBER)
  43. Varian Thermal Bell Jar Evaporator
  44. Waters Ambient-Temperature GPC
  45. Waters Ambient-Temperature-Aqueous GPC
  46. Waters Breeze DMSO GPC
  47. Waters MALDI Micro MX (MALDI-TOF)
  48. Wire Bonders
  49. Witec Alpha300R Confocal Raman Microscope
  50. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Scienta Omicron ESCA2SR, SSX-100