Thermal Analysis

Thermal Analysis determines the physical or chemical properties of a substance as it is heated, cooled, or held at a constant temperature. Solid state chemistry uses thermal analysis for studying reactions in the solid state, thermal degradation reactions, phase transitions and phase diagrams. Potential applications span a wide range of fields including oxidation stability, safety, drug analysis, sample purity, food science, polymers, and metals.

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Contacts

General Contact

imsinfo@uconn.edu

Staff

Location

Campus Address

Institute of Materials Science

Science 1

Storrs Campus

Mailing Address

25 King Hill Road, Unit 3136
Storrs, CT 06269-3136

Instrumentation

TA Instruments DMA Q800

A Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) measures the mechanical/rheological properties of a material as a function of time, frequency, temperature, stress and strain. DMA works on the principle of applying a force or a deformation to a sample, then sample’s response, which will be a deformation, or a force is measured.

TA Instruments DSC Q20

The Q-20 and the Q-100 are connected to RCS coolers and have a temperature range of -90°C to 400°C.The Q-100 has Modulated DSC capability. MDSC increases the amount of information that can be obtained from a single experiment. In addition to transition temperatures, melting and crystallization and heat capacity, modulated DSC provides an improved resolution of transitions that overlap or occur only a few degrees apart, an increased sensitivity to weak transitions, and separation of reversing and non-reversing phenomena.

TA Instruments TGA Q500-0188

The TA Instruments Q500 TGA offers a high temperature limit for your thermal analysis needs. The instrument measures the mass loss of a sample very accurately versus temperature.
The temperature can go from room temperature up to 1000 °C with a max ramp rate of 50°C/min.
Samples can be tested in an inert nitrogen environment or in air.
The automated sampler can accommodate 16 samples that will run in succession

TA Instruments SDT Q600

Simultaneous DSC-TGA measures both heat flow and weight changes in a material as a function of temperature or time in a controlled atmosphere.
Simultaneous measurement of these two material properties not only improves productivity but also simplifies interpretation of the results.
The complimentary information (DSC & TGA obtained allows differentiation between endothermic and exothermic events which have no associated weight loss (e.g., melting and crystallization) and those which involve a weight loss (e.g., degradation).

TA Instruments TMA Q400

TMA measures the dimensional changes of a sample as a function of temperature or time while it is subjected to defined mechanical stress or load under conditions of controlled force and atmosphere.
The modes of measurements includes Compression, Expansion, Penetration, Tension and 3-Point Bending

Bench Top IEC Model CL Clinical Centrifuge

Six 15 ml buckets. Variable speed control with a maximum speed of 7100 rpm.