Beryllium Handling and Hazardous Materials Preparation
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A suite containing two nano enclosures housing an 1800 °C tube furnace, a Labconco high volume fume hood, and an inert atmosphere glovebox enables hazardous materials processing and full compliance with Beryllium OSHA standards.
Mechanical Alloying
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Three ball milling instruments, a Retsch PM100 planetary ball mill, EMAX high energy ball mill, and a Retsch PM400 planetary ball mill enables mechanical alloying and atomic and microstructural refinement of metallic powders, producing powder materials with equilibrium and/or metastable configurations yielding unique properties.
Direct Current/Field Assisted Sintering
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A Sinterland LABOX-3010KF Field Assisted Sintering System enables high temperature consolidation of powders to produce fully-dense, bulk components while retaining or enhancing their structural characteristics.
Annealing, Hot and Cold Working
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An IRM 2360H rolling mill may be utilized for cold rolling or hot rolling up to 300C, while a suite of furnaces enables annealing in vacuum or selective gaseous environments up to 1600C.
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A suite of furnaces enables thermal processing in vacuum or selective gaseous environments. Tube furnaces allow for rapid processing up to 1800 °C for a versatile range of applications such as sintering, annealing, or thermally induced reactions. A range of muffle furnaces are equipped for baking, pyrolysis, or dehydration and similar reactions. A high vacuum furnace allows for processing up to 2000 °C in a <10⁻⁵ torr high vacuum environment. A graphitization furnace allows for conversion of amorphous carbonaceous materials into graphite at up to 3000 °C in an inert cover gas.
Precision Saws and Polishing
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A Pace Pico 175 precision cutter and Buehler Isomet 1000 precision saw may be utilized for preparing samples via dicing by high speed diamond saw. In addition, our Pace NANO-1000S Grinder Polisher and Buehler VibroMet 2 allows sample surfaces to be polished to a mirror finish for further characterization such as x-ray diffraction.