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
Funding agencies
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