The Centre for Sustainable polymers harbours the state-of-the-art facility for polymer research distributed into five laboratories.

Polymer Processing Laboratory

Wet Laboratory and Translational Research Unit

Analytical Laboratory

Toxicology Laboratory

The Infrastructure and Instrumentation include

 

  • Monomer & Catalyst Synthesis & Purification Equipments
  • PLC based Fermenter
  • Polymerization reactors (high pressure & vacuum reactor)
  • Reactive distillation plant
  • Optical polarimeter
  • Glove Box with two hands
  • Volumetric Karl Fischer for moisture measurement
  • High temperature GPC with UV, LS and RI detectors
  • HPLC with auto sampler
  • Temperature Controlled Viscometer
  • Facilities for Thermo-mechanical Properties
  • DSC-TGA-FTIR with auto sampler & dynamic frequency sweep
  • DMA/TMA
  • Heat Deflection Apparatus/Tester
  • Thermal Impact Chamber/Tester
  • Oxidation Induction Time Tester
  • Micro Hardness Tester
  • Melt Flow Index
  • Izod Impact Tester
  • Vicat Softening Point Apparatus/Tester
  • Environmental Stress Cracking
  • Unrestrained Linear Thermal Shrinkage Hot Plate Method
  • Facilities for Barrier Properties
  • Water vapor Permeability tester
  • Oxygen permeability apparatus
  • Package Gas Analyzer
  • Facilities for Morphological & Surface Studies
  • Cryo-TEM
  • Polarizing optical microscope (with Hot Plate)
  • Contact Angle Measurement Device
  • Facilities for Migration Studies
  • ICPMS
  • Micro compounder with Injection Molding Machine
  • Blown film extruder
  • Thermoforming Machine
  • High Shear Mixer/Grinder
  • Electro spinning Setup
  • Polymer Testing Facilities
  • Visible Spectrophotometer
  • Fatigue & Creep Machine
  • Thermal Conductivity Tester
  • Puncture Impact Testing – Thin Materials
  • Digital Density Tester
  • Tear Tester
  • Computational Facilities
  • Material studio
  • Polyflow
  • High Performance Computing Facilities
  • Degradation Studies
  • Biodegradability test setup
  • Biocompatibility test setup
  • Universal Testing Machine
  • Polymer nanocomposite based Cast Film processing line

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The Centre also hosts a dedicated greenhouse for research at the confluence of polymers, soil and plants.