Synthesis and Formulation of Polymer Materials

 7L Instrumented batch reactor (pilot plant) for polycondensation
 1L batch reactor for Ziegler-Natta synthesis
 Supercritical CO2 Reactor 100mL
 Instrumented High Viscosity continuous medium - twin screw extrudors (x 3)
 Temperature-controlled 20 L reactor formulation
 20L solid state polymerization reactor

Methods of Preparation and Forming of Polymer Materials

 Instrumented co-rotating twin screw extruders (screw profiles designable) (x3) : CLEXTRAL (2)
 Single screw extruders nstrumented (x7) : CAMIL, Thorette, FAIREX, KAUFFMAN
 Slide-screw extruding Visio (Oyonnax INSA site)
 DSM twin-screw micro-extruder (max 15g) Equipped With injection machine and film / fiber processing
 Film cast dies and processing (x2) (thickness from 50 to 500 m)
 Instrumented mixers (x3) : Rheocord HERAEUS, Haake (2)
 Reaction Injection Molding RIM
 Resin Transfer Molding RTM
 Calanders (x2)
 Lab-scale film blowing Babyplast
 Visio-vis (transparent Instrumented extrudor) (Oyonnax INSA site)
 Instrumented rotomolding (Oyonnax INSA site)
 Injection Machine (x4) (from 20 to 90T) : BILLON, Sandretto, KLOCKNER
 Micro-injection machine Babyplast
 Instrumented injection press (Oyonnax INSA site)
 Compression presses (x4) : hot and cold courses
 Thermoforming press ILLIG
 Co-extrusion line (Oyonnax INSA site)
 Bar-coater
 Plasma Surface Treatment of
 Micro-Plasma Treatment of Surface Waves
 Eximer laser surface treatment
 UV oven (time and spectrum controlled)
 Spin coater
 Langmuir-Blodgett balance
 Platform Coatings / Paint CoatingXpert

Physical Characterization of Polymer Materials and Multimaterials

 Size Exclusion Chromatography SEC - UV / IR / Light Scattering Detectors (x2) : WATERS
 Size Exclusion Chromatography Hot temperature SEC WATERS
 HPLC Chromatography - Preparative CPV Coupled With Mass Spectrometry
 Inverse Gas Chromatograph
 Gas Phase Chromatography Coupled With Mass Spectrometry
 Calorimetry DSC analysis (x7) (TA (4), METLLER (2), Setaram), Perkin-Elmer UV DSC, modulated DSC Perkin-Elmer
 Thermogravimetric Analysis - TGA, TGA - GC / MS / IR
 FT-IR spectrometers MIR (x 3)
 FT-NIR spectrometers ir - on-line coupling With Processes
 UV Spectrometer
 Malvern Particle Size Measurement
 Turbidimetry measurements
 Solid State Spectrometers for viscoelastic characterization
 Rheometric RMS 800 / RDA2 / RSA2 and ANTON-PARR
 Rheometers for molten and liquid states (reactive or not) Rheological characterization -
 Rheometric RMS 800 / DDR 700 / RDA2 / ARES / ANTON-PARR
 Shear Rheometers Controlled Stress (x3) : TA 3000, SR5000
 Combined with optical microscopy Rheometer
 Capillary Rheometers (x3) : MALVERN, INSTRON 3211 (2), HAAKE
 Elongational Rheometer Rheometrics RME
 MFI Measurements (x2)
 Application related Rheometers : RHEOMAT (x2), Kinematics (x2), THROMBOMAT (x2), BROOKFIELD
 Tensile machines (from few "grams up to 20T) (x8) Equipped With low / high temperature-controlled chambers and extensometers
 Instrumented Charpy (x2) and Notched impact tests
 Hydraulic tensile machine Equipped With low / high temperature-controlled chamber fatigue testing, impact tests (Charpy, multi-axial)
 Heat Distortion Temperature and Vicat measurements
 Electrical and spectroscopic dielectrical
 Microdielectrometers (x3)
 Gas and Vapor permeameters
 Vapor adsorption scales
 Optical microscopy (x 4) With hot METLLER internships (x3)
 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) (x2) : tapping mode, lateral force, phase contrast, temperature-controlled liquid and internships
 Wilhemy scales (x3)
 Ellipsometry
 Surface tension measurements : sessile drop - Including Hot internship - (X4)

Simulation

 Accelrys Software - Materials Studio molecular modeling : Atomistic, coarse grain, mesoscale
 Parallel processing computers for simulations

Access to other platforms

 CLYME - Electron Microscopy Center of Lyon
 FR2151 CNRS - Platform NMR of Polymers Lyonnais
 Centre for Microscopy Université Claude Bernard Lyon I
 Center for X-ray diffraction characterization - University Lyon I
 Quantimeter Center - University Claude Bernard Lyon I / Faculty of Pharmacy, Lyon
 ESRF Beam line - Grenoble
 LLB CEA Saclay Neutron Scattering