RESEARCH LABORATORIES

The Polymers Synhesis, Characterization and Processing Laboratories located at the new, state-of-the art premises of the School of Engineering at the new University campus (1 Panepistimiou Avenue 2109 Aglantzia, Nicosia) possess infrastructure for materials synthesis [two laboratory fumehoods, a rotary evaporator, high vacuum pumps, vacuum oven and dry oven, two vacuum lines, etc.], materials processing including a custom-made electrospinning set-up consisting of a controlled-flow, four-channel volumetric microdialysis pump (KD Scientific, Model: 789252), a syringe with a connected spinneret needle electrode, a high-voltage power source (10–50 kV) a custom-designed, grounded target collector, inside an interlocked Faraday enclosure safety cabinet, a commercially available electrospinning device (DOXA microfluidics), an accelerated weathering chamber (Q-Lab), a spin-coater (Novocontrol Technologies), a spray coating apparatus, etc.  and a Size Exclusion Chromatography system supplied by Polymer Standards Service (PSS).

The group members have also access to equipment that is available in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering including a Scanning Electron Microscopy (Vega TS5136LS-Tescan, Brno, Czech Republic), a sputtering system (sputtering system K575X Turbo Sputter Coater-Emitech, Quorum Technologies Ltd., West-Sussex, UK), an FTIR spectrometer (Jasco), a UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Jasco V-630 UV-vis spectrophotometer), an XRD (Rigaku), a mechanical testing system (Instron 5944, Norwood, MA, USA), a Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (DMA) etc.