Materials Processing Facilities

Carbon Nexus also has a suite of materials processing, testing and characterisation facilities. Available facilities include

Materials processing facilities:

• Lay-up facilities
• Vacuum assisted resin infusion
• Programmable curing oven
• Vacuum oven
• Nitrogen atmosphere oven
• Hot press

Materials testing facilities:

• Mechanical testing facilities
• ASTM standard testing
• Stress/strain monitoring

Materials characterisation facilities:

• Electron microscope facilities (scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transition electron microscopy (TEM))
• Thermal analysis instruments (differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and thermogravimetry (TG))
• Surface analysis instruments (atomic force microscopy (AFM), surface energy analysis (SEA) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS))
• Environmental testing
• Rheology, cure kinetics
• Solid state NMR