General Details

• 2000 sq ft of experimental space within the Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research
• 8 ft fume hoods, each equipped with the necessary equipment to perform polymer synthesis, and characterization.
• All labs are equipped with standard equipment such as glassware, hot plates, stirrers, vacuum pumps, ovens, refrigerators, freezers, roto-evaporators, etc.
• VAC Argon-atmosphere glove box system for synthesis
• VAC Argon-atmosphere glove box system with metal evaporator
• Thin Film Preparation Facilities / Spin-coating stations
• UMass NIL Cleanroom. 400 sq ft ISO Class 7

Specialty Equipment

• Nanoemboss Roll-to-Roll Nanoimprint Lithography Tool
• Nanonex NX2000 Nanoimprinter
• Molecular Imprints MI-55 Naoimprinter
• Trion Phantom III ICP Plasma Etcher
• Signatone Analytical probe station with microscope
• Keithley 2602 Dual Source Meter
• 2 Microwave Synthesizers
• Instron 5500 Universal Testing Machine
• Hewlett-Packard LCR (capacitance) Analyzers (3)
• AST automated contact angle measuring tool
• Thermo FT-IR with Grazing angle attachment (GATR)
• TA Instruments PhotoDSC
• HP Agilent GC
• OAI High intensity UV Flood Exposure System 500W/365nm
• Quartz Crystal Microbalance (5MHz)
• Waters HPLC and SEC Chromatography equipment
• Brinkman Auto-Titration System