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Polymer characterization

Physique | Chimie

The core facility

Physique Polymer characterization

  • Head Manager of the core facility Mélanie LEGROS
  • UPR 022 - ICS / Institut Charles Sadron
  • CNRS
  • Cronenbourg Schiltigheim
  • Monosite
  • Service delivery
    • to the academic community
    • to the socio-economic world
  • Collaborations of research
    • with the academic community
    • to the socio-economic world
  • Affiliated institution of administrative supervision
    • CNRS
CarMac

- Perform chemical and physico-chemical analyzes of polymers, colloids and self-assembled systems for the academic community and for companies
- Provide the necessary equipments to characterize the systems studied by ICS researchers
- Train users on the theory and practice of the techniques available in the core facility
- Pass on our knowledge and know-how to students in initial training and to technicians and engineers from companies in continuing education

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Certifications and accreditations

Expertises

Scientific expertise

  • Macromolecules
  • Physico-chemistry
  • Multidetector size exclusion chromatography
  • Static and dynamic light scattering

Technical expertise

  • Multidetector size exclusion chromatography
  • Static and dynamic light scattering
  • Viscometry
  • Thermal analysis
  • Optical spectrophotometry

Resources

Main equipments

  • Multidetector Size Exclusion Chromatography : 6 equipments in different solvents and with different detectors
  • Dynamic Light Scattering and zeta potential
  • Capillary viscometer
  • DSC
  • MicroDSC
  • TGA
  • UV-Visible-NIR spectrophotometry
  • FTIR spectrophotometry
  • Spectrofluorimetry

Software resources / Data bases

  • Commercial softwares for the different equipments (Astra, Omnisec, Star, Nanoanalyze, ...)
  • M-Files

Examples of service delivery

  • Determination of the molar masses of polymers by multidetector size exclusion chromatography
  • Determination of the molar masses of polymers by simple size exclusion chromatography
  • Determination of kinematic viscosity
  • Determination of the specific refractive index increment
  • Thermogravimetric analysis

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