Equipment and Software

Materials Laboratory

The Materials Studies laboratory is equipped with a number of instruments for the characterisation of heritage materials:

	Analytical Instrumentation   • Instron 5944 Single Column Tensile Tester with pneumatic grips and 100 N, 500 N and 2 kN load cells. • Perkin Elmer Dynamic Mechanical Analyser with Triton Technologies Humidity Chamber • Magritek Unilateral Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) MOUSE and Kea2 NMR Spectrometer • Innov-X portable X-ray Fluorescence Delta Premium 4000 Spectrometer • DeltaNu portable Raman Rapid ID with 785 nm laser
	Microscopes   • 1 x Meiji Polarized Light Microscope with transmitted and incident illumination • 1 x Microtec RM-1 Polarized Light Microscope with transmitted illumination • 2 x Microtec HM-3 Stereomicroscope with transmitted and incident illumination and a zoom range of 6.4:1 • 2 x USB microscopes
	Analytical Software   • Instron Bluehill 3 • PerkinElmer Pyris • Kea Prospa • Bruker OPUS • DeltaNu NuSpec
	General Laboratory Equipment   • A&D GF-300 Analytical Balance, 310 x 0.001 g • Erlab CaptairFlex Ductless Fumehood • Pipetman® pipettes: P20, P200 and P1000 • Purite Labwater 1 with coil and gun • Incubator: maximum temperature 100 °C • UV Lamps