Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) & Soft Matter Facility (SOMF) Open House
April 17, 2024 at GERB 154
Directions to GERB (http://aggiemap.tamu.edu/index.html?bldg=1611)
Coffee and pastries
8:45MCF Overview
Dr. Radovic, Director of Materials Characterization Facility9:00SOMF Overview
Dr. Sukhishvili , Director of Soft Matter Facility
9:15Determination of Particle Size and Particle Shape by Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA)
Jeff Scott, Fritsch
Read Abstract9:30Fundamentals and Applications of Gas Adsorption, BET Surface Area, and Density Measurements
Garrett Taggart from Microtrac
9:50MCF Tour and Instrument demo
If you would like to bring your own sample for demo, please sign up here.- (a) Particle Size Analyzer - Dynamic Image Analysis (Fritsch): GERB 145
- (b) Advanced BET/ Density (MicroTrac): GERB 148
Lunch provided by sponsor
Fritsch Milling and Sizing
(at Soft Matter Facility at 1313 Research Parkway)
Surface characterization with optical 3D metrology
Michael Kriel, Bruker Alicona
1:30New Developments in Emulsion and Dispersion Stability Analysis with Optical Light Scattering
Paul Simutis
1:50Rheology for the Real World: The Modular Compact Rheometer
Miguel Toj
2:10SOMF Tour and Instrument demo
If you would like to bring your own sample for
demo.
- (c) Optical 3D metrology (Bruker Alicona) : SOMF
- (d) OCA 11 contact angle goniometer (DataPhysics) : SOMF
- (e) MS 20 MultiScans for Emulsion and Dispersion stability (DataPhysics) : SOMF