Thermal, Elemental, Mechanical, Physical and Rheological (TEMPR) Facility is the world-class central facility for the bulk characterization of biological, soft and hard materials.

Thermal- Impact of temperature on phase, mass, composition, evolved gases, reactivity and equilibria, shape and density
Elemental-The H-U elemental composition of bulk and thin film materials
Mechincal- response of a material to applied mechanical forces ( strength, toughness, hardness, modulis and viscoelasticity)
Phyical- Surface area, porosity, density, particle size and shape, polydispersity, surface charge and dielectric constant
Rheological- The viscosity and flow.deformation of soft matter, include polymers, suspensions, tissue, blood goo

TEMPR: including a set of instruments for materials property meassurement such as Thermal, Elemental, Mechanical, Physical and Rheological properties

Thermal-

• TA InstrumentsDiscovery DSC 2500 w/ autosampler
• TA Instruments Q500 TGA
• Netzsch STA 449 F3 Jupiter Corrosive SiCw/ QMS, FTIR, and ASC
• NetzschDSC 214 PolymaIC 40 w/ ASC
• NetzschTGA 209 F1 Libra w/ ASC

Elemental-

• Thermo iCAP RQ ICP-MSw/ Cetac 193 nm excimer laser and autosampler/autodiluter (LA-ICP-MS)
• ThermoFlash Smart 2000 CHNS/O combustion/pyrolysisanalyzer

Mechanical-

• TA Instruments Q800 DMA w/ LN2 cooling
• Instron 3367Dual Column UTS

Physical-

• Micromeretics 3Flex surface area analyzer w/ chemisorption, TCD, and sample prep station
• Micromeretics AccuPycII 1340
• WatersAcquityAdvanced Polymer Chromatographysystemw/ WyattRI and MALS detectors

Rheological

• TA Instruments Discovery HR-2 Rheometer