Universal Mechanical Spectrometer (ARES)
Methods IMC, Mühlhaupt
| Universal Mechanical Spectrometer | Model: | ARES TA Instruments |
| Unit and Room: | FMF, second floor, R02015 |
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| Responsible: | Dr. Yasmin Korth |
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| Mechanical Spectroscopy, Rheometry |
Further information: | http://www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/service/servicegruppen/sg_rheol/service/index_html |
| Short Description: Universal Mechanical Spectrometer for linear and nonlinear viscoelastic properties of matter in wide Temperature (-100 °C to 300 °C) and frequency (0.001 to 100 Hz) ranges. |
Picture of the Equipment
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| Available Experiments/Techniques: Dynamic moduli in oscillatory shear flow, viscositis in shear and extensional flow, all types of strain controlled experiments including relaxation modulus determination. |
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| Special Equipment: add on to measure extensional viscosity of high viscous and high elastic materials. |
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| Measurements on the equipment are currently done by: | Students after Introduction Students after extensive training Trained scientific service personal |
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| Recent Publications, where this instrument was important (citation): |
Kühne M, Friedrich Chr. Nonlinear rheological properties of DBS fibre networks in polypropyleneoxide. Rheol. Acta, 48 (2009), 1-9116. Thermorheological properties of hydrogenated pseudorandom styrene-butadiene copolymers. Macromolecules 38 (2005), 7164-7173 | |
| Typical problems that may be solved with this instrument: | -Structure-rheological properties relationships for polymeric materials, including composites, ionic & molecular liquids near their Tgs. -Determination of characteristic viscositis and moduli of matter, relaxation time spectra |
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Universal Mechanical Spectrometer (this page as a pdf file)