RSA III—Rheometric Scientific

ARES—Rheometric Scientific—Viscosity Measurements

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis and ARES

Ceast Melt Flow T.Q.

Melt Flow Index

Solatron 1255B Frequency Response Analyzer to test supercapacitor cells.

Capacitance Measurement

Fisher Syringe Pump and needles used for electrospinning fibers and gel spinning.

Electro Spinning

Branford University Research Limited—Fiber Spinning Unit.

Fiber Spinning

Haake RS150 Rheostress— Viscosity Measurement

Rheology—Haake Rheometer

Rigaku Micro Max 002 X-ray generator and R-axis IV++ detector system.  For wide and small angle x-ray measurements.

XRD—WAXS and SAXS System

Thermolyne 21100 tube furnace—Used for heat treating SWNT/polymer films for supercapacitor applications.

Tube Furnace

Keithley Conductivity Measurement—Used in supercapacitor applications and others.

Conductivity Measurement

Other Equipment in Labs:

Micromeretics Porousimeter— for porosity measurements of  composite films.

High Temperature furnace

 

Equipment for Group Access:

Electron Microscopes (SEM, TEM) - MSE department— http://www.mse.gatech.edu/academics/facilities/EMC/emc.html

Atomic Force Microscopy—Contact Lawrence Bottomley, Ph.D.— http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/bottomley/

Raman Spectroscopy— PTFE Department

NMR Center— http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/nmr/nmr.html

UV-VIS—Spectrometer

 

 

 

School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering.

Below is a list of the equipment used by Professor Kumar’s carbon nanotube research group for material characterization.

TGA 2950—TA Instruments

TMA 2940— TA Instruments thermomechanical Analyzer.

Perkins-Elmer Spectrum One FT-IR Spectrometer Autoimage Microscope.

DSC Q100—TA Instruments for crystallization studys.

Thermal Analysis—TGA, Thermogravimetric Analysis

FTIR

Thermal Analysis—TMA

Thermal Analysis—DSC

Equipment and Facilities