Scientific Equipment at CRCC
ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT AT CRCC
Physicochemical Analysis : Separation Techniques
- Gas Chromatography
- 1 Bidimensional (2D) Gas Chromatography device coupled to a quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - QP2010 Ultra (Shimadzu)
- 1 Gas Chromatography device Trace GC Ultra (Thermo) coupled to a DSQ (Thermo) quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
- 1 Gas Chromatography device coupled to a quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - QP2010 GCMS Plus (Shimadzu)
- 1 Gas Chromatography device HP 6890 (Agilent) with a Flame Ionization detector
- 1 pyrolyser PY2020 iD Double shot pyrolyser (Frontier Lab)
- 1 pyrolyser PY3030 D Double shot pyrolyser (Frontier Lab)
- Liquid Chromatography
- 1 Size-Exclusion Chromatography device Waters 515 HPLC pump with Multiangle Light Scattering MALS Dawn EOS (Wyatt Technology) and Differential Index detectors Waters 2414
- 1 Liquid Chromatography HP1100 Series (Agilent) with Photodiode array and Fluorescence detectors
- 1 Liquid Chromatography Alliance Waters 2695, with a Photodiode array detector Waters 2996, and Refractive Index detector Waters 2414
- 1 Liquid Chromatography Beckman Gold pumps with a Fluorimetric detector Waters 474
- Capillary Electrophoresis
- 1 Capillary Electrophoresis device P/ACE MDQ Beckman Couter, with UV-Vis and PDA detectors hyphenated with an Electrospray Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ESI-ITMS) Bruker HCT
Physicochemical Analysis : Spectral Techniques
- 1 FTIR spectrometer Thermo Nicolet 6700 (Thermo Scientific) equipped with an ATR device and coupled to a microscope Continuµm XL (Thermo Electronic Corp.)
- 1 FTIR spectrometer Alpha (Bruker) (Reflectance and ATR)
- 1 Raman microspectrometer In via (Renishaw) equipped with a 532 nm and 785 nm laser beam
- 1 UV-Vis spectrometer Unicam
- 1 spectrophotometer Elrepho 2000 (Datacolor)
- 1 Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectrometry FORS device (350nm-2500nm)
- 1 Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectrometry FORS device (400nm-800 nm) AvaSpec 2048
- 1 UV-Vis-NIR spectrometer Varian
- 1 Micro-Fading Tester LOT Oriel
- 1 spectrocolorimeter X-Rite
- 1 Glossmeter (20°-60°-75°) ZLR 1050M Zehntner
Physicochemical Analysis : Microscopy
- 4 light microscopes (Olympus BH-2, Leitz) and steromicroscopes
- 1 optical microscope Axio Imager D2m (Zeiss) operating in Transmission/Reflection mode and monitored by an image processing software Archimed (Microvision)
- 1 stereomicroscope Discovery V.20 (Zeiss) operating in Transmission/Reflection mode and monitored by an image processing software Archimed (Microvision)
- 1 polarizing microscope Axio Lab1 Zeiss
Physicochemical Analysis : Other Techniques
- 1 Differential Scanning Calorimeter DSC8000 Perkin Elmer (T range : -100 to 750°C)
- 1 Dynamic Vapor Sorption Advantage (Surface Measurement Systems) automated gravimetic sorption system
- 1 Spatial photometer EZContrast 160R (Eldim)
- 1 glove box Jacomex designed for the study of humidity and oxygen impact on highly reactive materials. Monitoring RH ( 0 to 80%) and oxygen concentration (1 to 1,000 ppm)
Mechanical Testing
- 1 Mechanical Testing Lab (23+1°C, 50%+2 HR)
- 1 Tensile strength tester DY.20B Adamel-Lhomargy (ongoing upgrade)
- 1 Z-span tester Pulmac Trouble Shooter-100
- 1 Bursting tester EC06 Adamel-Lhomargy
- 1 Resonance stiffness instrument RM01 Adamel-Lhomargy (Kodak method)
- 1 Tear tester ED01 Adamel-Lhomargy
- 1 MIT Folding Endurance tester
Artificial Aging
- 2 climatic testing chamber T/RH HC 0020 (Heraeus-Vötsch)
- 2 climatic testing chamber T/RH VC 0020 (Vötsch)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH HCP108 (Memmert)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH WK111 180 (Weiss)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH 34L WKL 34/+10 (Weiss)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH 180L WK3-180/0 (Weiss)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH/Light (Servathin)
- 1 climatic testing chamber T/RH/Light Xenotest 220+ (Atlas)
Microbiology
- 1 Microbiology Lab
- 1 PCR Workstation