Laboratories

GCT’s Lab

The group has invested many efforts in acquiring proper equipment to carry out its research, in particular for material fabrication and property evaluation (mechanical, thermal conductivity).

 

Hence, we have :

Equipment for powder processing and forming:

freeze dryer, rheometer, viscosimeter, ultrasonicators, rotovapor, ball miller, robocasting (direct ink writing), 3D printer for polymers, extruder.

Coating techniques:

flame spraying from powders and wires with Accuraspray diagnosis system for determining temperature and velocity of in-fly particles, air-brush for slurries.

Special furnaces:

hot press, controlled atmosphere furnace, high vacuum joining furnace.

Specimen preparation:

automated precision cutting machines, CF4/O2 plasma etcher.

Properties and characterization:

instrumented microindentation, universal testing machine for compression tests,rugosimeter, infrared camera.

ICV

The group has wide expertise in the following ICV facilities: Spark plasma sintering, Thermal diffusivity by laser flash method, Thermal conductivity by MTPS/TPS, Tribometer and Scratch Testing.