
Facilities
All the equipment listed bellow are located in the Materials Characterization Center, coordinated by profs. Ricardo Torres and Paulo Soares. The lab offer equipment for surface and bulk materials characterization, as well as expert analytical services. These resources are available to PUPCPR faculty and students, outside researchers, industry, and government.

Programable DC Power supply
600 V 8 A - Chroma

Precision Cutter
Struers Miniton

Metallurgical cutting
Struers Discoton2

Water purifier - Permution

Metallographic mounting - Leco

Heat treatment muffle furnace
EDG

Metallographic polishing

High temperatura furnace - 1700 °C

Salt spray corrosion chamber

Optical microscopes
Olympus BX51

Universal testing machine - 10K kg
MTS

Universal testing machine - 500kg EMIC

Rockwell Hardness tester

Brinell Hardness tester

Microhardness tester
Shimadzu HMV

Ultra Micro Hardness Tester
Shimadzu DUH-211S

Contact angle goniometer
Krüss EasyDropp

FTIR Spectroscope
Perkin Elmer Frontier

DSC/DTA
Netzsch Pegasus 404 F3

Calower
Anton Paar

Potentiostat / Galvanostat
Ivium

Tribometer
CSM

SEM / EDS
Tescan Vega3

XRD with Thin Film geometry
Shimadzu XRD7000
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