Thermomechanical characterization of soft materials
Differential Scanning Calorimeter Discovery TA Instruments with refrigerated cooling system RCS90Tensile machine Instron 5565 with temperature chamber (forced convection oven and liquid nitrogen) and video extensometer
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis RSA G2 TA Instruments with forced convection and liquid nitrogen temperature chamber.Radial Stretch System built by OkState Mechanical Engineering students as a capstone project. They won first place with this beautiful design largely inspired from here. Thank you Mark Finnicum, Beau Goddard, and Sergio Piedra!
Rheometer Discovery Hybrid HR2 TA Instruments with Peltier plate and UV curing measurement capabilitiesLow-resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance apparatus Brucker Minispec MQ20
3D printing
On loan from Dr. Smay’s lab. The Ultimaker 2.0 printer has been adapted to print solutions kept at a given temperature throughout the tubing and UV cured during printing.
Microscopy and videos
Video camera FLIR BFS-U3 Blackfly S for Digital Image Correlation
Microscope Olympus BX53M with polarized light, video recording, and heating cooling Peltier plate
Computational power
OkState HPCC Pete’s computational infrastructure comprises 5,664 processor cores, 17,280 GB RAM, and more than 2 Petabytes of storage.
MS2M Lab 