Equipment

Our department has different experimentation laboratories and techniques for obtaining, preparing and characterisation of materials

The materials can be obtained by chemical (chemical reactions), by means of ceramics (sintering) or by fusion at high temperatures.

We have a wide range of techniques of preparation and characterization in addition to the Institute of Ceramics and Glass (CSIC).

Furnaces

Gas Melting – 1500 ºC
Electrical Furnaces. Controlled Atmosphere – 1600 ºC
Electrical Tubular of Al2O3 – 1200 y 1600 ºC
- Atmospheres N2, Ar, air
Electrical Tubular of Quartz – 1000 ºC
- Atmospheres NH3, N2, Ar, air
- Vaccum (10-3, 10-7 tor)
Electrical for ceramic tiles (50×50 cm) – 1300 ºC
Electrical mufle(1000 ºC)

Grinding, cutting, polishing

Spectroscopy

UV-vis (190 – 1100 nm). Perkin-Elmer Lambda 25 y Lambda 40
FT-IR (MIR: 4000 – 400 cm-1, with ATR module). Perkin-Elmer Spectrum BX
FT-IR (FIR: 4000 – 150 cm-1, with modules ATR, DRIFT and gas analysis). Nicolet 6700
Raman (Micro-Raman: 4000 – 100 cm-1, with modules Confocal and Heating Plate 0 – 600 ºC). Renishaw In Via.
Colorimeter Minolta
Brighness

Thermal Analysis

Thermogravimetric Analysis 10 – 1500 ºC. Perkin-Elmer Pyris 1 TGA
Differential Thermal Analysis 10 – 1500 ºC. Perkin-Elmer DTA 7
Simultaneous Thermal Analysis DTA-TG-DSC (10 – 1500 ºC) with gas analysis by FT-IR. SDT Q 600