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Techniques and Equipment

Technique Description
Polymer syntheses Devices for polymer syntheses up to 5 liters; monomer synthesis
Production of membranes Integral asymmetric membranes, composite membranes, catalytically reactive membranes
Membrane reactors Testing of catalytically active membranes, of hydrogenation, dimerisation and oxidation reactions
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (300 MHz) Bruker AV-300 with x-, y-, z-gradients, 1H, 19F selective, TXI- and BB- head (for 13C, 31P, 15N, 29Si, etc..); solid state equipment for CP / MAS and HR / MAS; diffusion equipment (Diff 30 head and BGU-II)
Raman Microscopy Senterra / Bruker Optics; excitation laser at 785nm and 532nm; 10x-, 20x-, 50x-, 100x- objectivs; library of spectra
UV/VIS Spectroscopy Hitachi U-300 Spectrophotometer
FT/IR Spectrocopy Bruker Equinox 55; ATR unit; heatable cell; coupling FT-IR / thermogravimetry
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) DSC Phoenix, Fa. Netzsch
Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) TG 209, Fa. Netzsch; coupling FT-IR / thermogravimetry
Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) TG 209 F1 Iris, Fa. Netzsch
Quadrupol mass spectrometer up to 200 ME Pfeiffer Prisma QMS 200
Gas permeations apparatuses (together with dept. PMT) Determination of permeation and diffusion coefficients of polymer films (10-1000 µm); Time-lag Method; Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht design
Magnetic balance for sorption measurement Rubotherm, Glass version for measurements at 0-1 bar and metal version for high pressure (<100 bar)
Gas chromatography Hewlett-Packard, CE Instrumentents