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Facilities

Biomaterials and Biosurfaces Laboratory
This laboratory contains 10 kN biaxial and 5 kN uniaxial servo-hydraulic mechanical testing machines, a Fluoroscan X-ray system, a microscopic imaging system, a spectra fluorometer, a table autoclave, centrifuge, vacuum oven, CO2 incubators, biological safety cabinet, thermostatic water baths, precision balance and ultrasonic sterilizer.

Ceramics Processing Laboratory
This laboratory contains a photo-resist spinner, impedance analyzer, Zeta potential meter, spectrofluorometer, piezoelectric d33 meter, wire-bonder, and laser displacement meter.

MAX Phase Ceramics Processing Laboratory
This laboratory contains a vacuum hot-press; cold isostatic press (CIP) and hot isostatic press (HIP) for materials consolidation and synthesis; precision dilatometer; impedance analyzer, creep tester.

Mechanical Testing Laboratory
This laboratory contains mechanical and closed-loop servo-hydraulic testing machines, hardness testers, equipment for fatigue testing, metallographic preparation facilities and a rolling mill with twin 6" diameter rolls.

Mesostructured Materials Laboratory
This laboratory contains facilities for nanostructure sample growth/synthesis, processing and measurement, including chemical vapor deposition; microwave plasma cleaning, fume hoods and a glove box; low-temperature and high-vacuum electronic and optoelectronic transport and electronics instrumentation; a scanning electron microscope equipped with electron beam lithography; and a scanning probe microscope.

Nanomaterials Laboratory
This laboratory contains instrumentation for testing and manipulation of materials under microscope, high-temperature autoclaves, Sievert’s apparatus; glove-box; high-temperature vacuum and other furnaces for the synthesis of nano-carbon coatings and nanotubes; electro-spinning system for producing nano-fibers.

Plasma Processing Laboratory
This laboratory contains various thermal spray systems, including industrial scale atmospheric and vacuum plasma spray, twin wire-arc spray, HVOF combustion and conventional flame spray, together with an atmospheric spray booth and vacuum/controlled atmosphere plasma spray chamber; metallographic sample preparation; laser particle velocity analyzer; RF/ICP reactor system for plasma synthesis (e.g. of carbon nanotubes), plasma chemistry or waste treatment.

Powder Metallurgy Laboratory
This laboratory contains vee blenders, ball-mills, sieve shaker + sieves for powder classification, several furnaces (including one with controlled atmosphere capability); and a 60-ton Baldwin press for powder consolidation.

Soft Matter Research and Polymer Processing Laboratories
These laboratories contain computerized thermal analysis facilities including differential scanning calorimeters (DSC), dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA) and thermo-gravimetric analyzer (TGA); single-fiber tensile tester; strip biaxial tensile tester; vacuum evaporator; spincoater; centrifuge; optical microscope with hot stage; liquid crystal tester; microbalance; ultrasonic cleaner; laser holographic fabrication system; polymer injection molder and extruder.

Natural Polymers and Photonics Laboratory
This laboratory contains a spectroscopic ellipsometer for film characterization;high purity liquid chromatography (HPLC) system; lyophilizer; centriguge; refractometer; electro-spinning system for producing nano-fibers.

For more information on departmental facilities, please visit the Department’s Facilities page at http://www.materials.drexel.edu/Research/

Centralized Research Facility
The College of Engineering’s centralized characterization facilities contain state-of-the-art materials characterization instruments, including environmental and variable pressure field-emission scanning electron microscopes with either Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and/or Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy (WDS) capabilities for elemental analysis, and orientation image microscopy (OIM) for texture analysis; a new transmission electron microscope (TEM) (due in the Fall of 2007) with STEM capability; visible and ultraviolet Raman microspectrometers; a Nanoindenter; Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR); X-ray diffraction (XRD); light optical microscope with digital image capture and image analysis; and microhardness tester.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s unique high resolution X-ray microtomography (MicroCT) system is also located within this facility.

More details of these instruments, details of how to access them and instrument usage rates can be found at http://www.nano.drexel.edu/Facilities/ .