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
Sopladora
Auxiliary equipment for blown film

 

B. Biomaterials area

  • Equipment for cell growth:
  • Incubator
  • CO2 Incubator
  • Laminar flow chamber
  • Gas extractor
  • Autoclave
incubadora
CO2 incubator and Incubator
camara de flujo laminar
Lamianr flow chamber

 

C. Characterization area

  • Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC )
  • Thermo- gravimetric analyzer (TGA )
  • Fourier Transform  Infrared light Spectrometer (FTIR )
  • Spectrophotometer
  • Meter melt flow index ( MFI)
  • Viscometer
calorimetro
Termo – gravimetric analyzer (TGA )
calorimetro2Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC ) espectometroFourier Transform Infrared light Spectrometer (FTIR ) microtraccionMechanical equipment microarrays

 

D. Microscopy area

  • Atomic force microscope (AFM )
  • Inverted Microscope
  • Stereoscopic Microscope
  • Microscope reflected and transmitted light
microscopioAtomic force microscope (AFM )

 

E. Auxiliary Equipment

  • Centrifuge
  • Ultracentrifuge
  • Ultrasound probe nanoparticles
  • Water bath
  • Magnetic stirrer
  • Liquid Nitrogen Dewar
  • Vertical Drilling
  • Refrigerator
  • Minitorno