A complete facility for analysis and characterization of soft materials and polymers
Open to faculty, students and industrial customers
The Soft Materials Characterization Laboratory (SMCL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a research facility for analysis and characterization of synthetic polymers, soft materials and polymer devices.
To maintain leading-edge research programs, to give students a state-of-the-art education facility and to provide services to industrial clients, we continue to improve this advanced laboratory with new equipment purchased by grants or through gifts from industrial partners.
For use, questions or more information, please contact the Director of the MRSEC facilities:
Dr. Jerry Hunter (jerry.hunter@wisc.edu)
(608) 263-1073
Instrumentation:
- Auxiliary Equipment
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) Q100
- Gel Permeation Chromatograph GPCmax
- JA Woollam IR-VASE Mark II Ellipsometer
- JA Woollam VASE+AR Ellipsometer
- LEO 1550 FESEM
- Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZSP
- Q-Sense E4 quartz crystal microbalance
- Rheometer - Advanced Rheometric Expansion System (ARES)
- RSA III Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
- Thermo Scientific DXRxi Raman imaging microscope
- Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA) Q500