POLYCOM uses the facilities of the Polymer and Bionanomaterials Laboratory, located in the section Mechanical Engineer PUCP.
The laboratory is divided into the following areas:
A. Plastics Processing Area
- Rotomolding plastics processing equipment
- Press-regulated thermo plastics processing
- Single Screw Extruder and auxiliary equipment for profile extrusion
- Auxiliary Equipment for film blowing
- Thermoforming
B. Biomaterials area
- Equipment for cell growth:
- Incubator
- CO2 Incubator
- Laminar flow chamber
- Gas extractor
- Autoclave
C. Characterization area
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC )
- Thermo- gravimetric analyzer (TGA )
- Fourier Transform Infrared light Spectrometer (FTIR )
- Spectrophotometer
- Meter melt flow index ( MFI)
- Viscometer
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC ) | Fourier Transform Infrared light Spectrometer (FTIR ) | Mechanical equipment microarrays |
D. Microscopy area
- Atomic force microscope (AFM )
- Inverted Microscope
- Stereoscopic Microscope
- Microscope reflected and transmitted light
Atomic force microscope (AFM ) |
E. Auxiliary Equipment
- Centrifuge
- Ultracentrifuge
- Ultrasound probe nanoparticles
- Water bath
- Magnetic stirrer
- Liquid Nitrogen Dewar
- Vertical Drilling
- Refrigerator
- Minitorno