Equipment by alphabetical listing
Acoustosizer - Colloidal Dynamics
Atomic force microscopes - Nanoscope AFM Mark II and Mark III
Autoclaves 4L and 600ml
Brabender mixing facilities and extrusion equipment
Brinell hardness tester
Bubble sizer - University of Cape Town design
Capillary rheometer - IWRI design
Centrifugal mill - Fritsch Analysette
Centrifuges - Eppendorf 5416 and Beckham BH22
Compression testing machine
Constant stress rheometer - Rheometrics SR5000 with pressure cell
attachment
Custom designed Laserex plasma reactor for powders, fibres
Cyclosizer
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating system
Dielectric analyzer - TA Instruments
Differential refractometer and Abbé refractometer
Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) - TA Instruments
Dry sand rubber wheel abrasion tester
Dynamic mechanical analyser (DMA) - TA Instruments
Electrometer for contact electrification measurements
Electrophoresis apparatus - Rank Bros
Flotation machines - Agitair, Denvar, Wemco, Polish
Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) - Nicolet
Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) - Nicolet Magna 750, FTIR with solution, DRIFT. ATR attachments
Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Spectrometer - Varian Gemini 200
Galia image analysis system - Olympus BH2 + Microtechnics colour CCD
Gravimetric adsorption apparatus - IWRI design
Grinding mills - IWRI design
High resolution analytical scanning electron microscopes - Camscan 2-90FE, Cambridge Stereoscan 100
High resolution scanning auger spectrometer - Physical Electronics PHI 600
High temperature gas phase chromatograph (GPC)
High temperature pin-on-disc sliding wear tester
Hydraulic press
Imaging ellipsometer - Beaglehole
Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer
Inert atmosphere gloveboxes
Instron servo-hydraulic testing machine 8501
Javac L560 physical vapour deposition (ion plating) unit
Kistler piezoelectric 3-axis cutting force dynometer
Leitz miniload hardness tester
Light scattering photometer - Brice Phoenix Universal
Light scattering photometer - DAWN DSP
Liquid chromatography mass spectrometer/gas phase Chromatograph (LCMS/LCGPC)
- Waters
Mercury disjoining pressure cell - IWRI design
Micro thermal analysis equipment (µTA) - TA Instruments
Modulated differential scanning calorimeter (MDSC) - TA Instruments
Modulated thermogravimetric analyser (MTGA) - TA Instruments
Molecular modelling software - GAMESS®, SINDO®, MODAL®, CERIUS®, HYPERCHEM®
Nanoindenter - UMIS 2000
Optical microscope - Olympus BH2 metallurgical microscope, Sony low-light CCD camera and Optimas image analysis system
Optical microscopes and image analyser
Optical spectrometer 0.5m - Thermo Jarrell-Ash
Particle contact angle meter - IWRI design
Particle size analyzer - Accusizer 770A
Particle size analyzer - HIAC PC-320
Particle sizer (laser diffraction) - Malvern Mastersizer
Particle sizer (PCS) - Malvern Autosizer II
Photosedimentometer - IWRI design
Pin-on-plate reciprocating wear machine
Plasma (ion) nitriding unit
Plasma cleaner - Harrick 100 watt RF
Plasma reactor - Harrick PDC-32G
Plasma reactor, large chamber 50 watt RF
Quartz crystal microbalance - Elchema
Rapid heating furnace
Reflectometer - IWRI design
Rheometer - Haake Model CV20 Rotovisco Rheometer
Rockwell hardness tester
Scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) - Nanoscope II Electrochemical and CSIRO STM
Sieves, full range
Small angle x-ray scattering apparatus (SAXS) - Kratky SAX camera and rotating anode X-ray source
Spectral irradiator
Surface area apparatus - Coulter Omnisorp Model 100
Surface charge titrator - Metrohm 670 Titro-processor
Surface force apparatus - IWRI design
Surface tension meter - IWRI design, Analite manufactured
Surtronic 3+ surface profilometer
Tensile testing machine - Hounsfield 5kN
Thermal rheometer - TA Instruments
Thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) - TA Instruments
Thermo-mechanical analyser (TMA) - TA Instruments
Thin film drainage apparatus - IWRI design
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS) - Physical Electronics TRIFT II
UV-visible spectrometer - Phillips PU8470
UV-visible-near infrared spectrometer - Cary 5 UVNIR
Vacuum deposition unit with film thickness monitor
Vacuum furnaces
Vane rheometer - Haake VT550 vane
Vickers hardness tester
Viscometer with constant temperature bath - Ubbelohde/Cannon CT500
VTT scratch adhesion tester
Wetting balance - IWRI design
X-ray diffractometer (XRD) - Philips powder XRD
X-ray fluorescence system PW 14020 - Philips XRF
X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) - Kratos Axis Ultra
Zeta potential apparatus - Malvern Zeta Sizer Model 2C