Department:
Address: 34 Maria Curie-Sklodowska Str., 41-819 Zabrze,
Poland
Web site: www.cchp-pan.zabrze.pl
Contact person:
Bozena KACZMARCZYK
Ph.D.
phone: 48/32-271 60 77
fax: 48/32-271 29 69
e-mail: bkaczmar@cchp-pan.zabrze.pl
Keywords:
Polymer characterization, GC-MS, GCP, NMR, ESR,
FTIR, UV-VIS-NIR, DSC, DTG, AFM, thermal resistance and mechanical tests,
X-ray diffraction.
Research profile:
Characterization of polymer materials including
identification, processing control, investigation of material structure and
thermal and mechanical properties. The unique, high quality equipment allows
conducting a complex investigations of structure and properties of polymer
materials The activity of our laboratories includes: mass spectrometry, gas
(GC-MS) and gel (GCP) chromatography, NMR, ESR, FTIR and UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy,
thermal analysis (DSC, DTG), thermal resistance and mechanical tests, flammability tests, measuring
of electrical properties of materials and facility for photoconductivity, measuring
X-ray diffraction, surface examination by Atomic Force Microscope.
The following instrumentation is available in
the laboratories of the CCHP:
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mass spectrometry (Finnigan MAT SSQ 700 spectrometer,
Finnigan MAT 800 AT and LCQ ion traps, MALDI-TOF Dynamo). CCHP possesses an
experience in implementation of multistage mass spectrometry and fragmentation
analysis for characterisation of subtle molecular structure of both natural
and synthetic polymers, as well as in structural analysis of copolymers, including
composition and sequence distribution of co-monomer units.
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gel permeation chromatography (Spectra Physics
8800 gel chromatograph)
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nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy using
multinuclear NMR spectrometer: Varian, Unity Inova 300. High resolution NMR
spectra (300 MHz for proton) of H-1, C-13, P-31 nucleus in macromolecules.
Two-dimensional NMR spectra (COSY, HETCOR). Analysis of macromolecular chain
structures I homopolymers – tacticity, and copolymers – distribution of comonomer
units in macromolecular chain.
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FTIR, NIR and UV-VIS spectrophotometry (FTS-40A
BIO-RAD spectrometer, UV-VIS Carl-Zeiss Jena spectrometer, Beckman ACTA MIV
spectrometer and Specord M80 spectrometer)
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differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry
(DuPont 1090B differential calorimeter; Q-1500 D MOM derivatograph)
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vapour pressure osmometry (Knauer osmometer)
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surface analysis (TopoMetrix atomic force microscope)
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specially designed laboratory extruder (ZMP-TW,
Gliwice) equipped with the system which enables control and measurement of
processing parameters, monitoring of temperatures
at the individual zones of heating, measurement of the pressure at snout of
the extruder as well as measurement of the engine speed.
Domains of applications:
Centre of Polymer Chemistry (CCHP) is one of
the independent research institutions of the Polish Academy of Sciences. CCHP
carries out research in all areas of novel polymeric materials and polymer
physics, in particular biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for various
applications particularly
in the fields of health, environment and high value-added products. CCHP possesses a broad competence
field with a very extensive cooperation with European universities. The research
programme includes synthesis and determination of chemical structure-property
relationships of polymers as well as evaluation of their mechanical behaviour,
processing and biodegradability as a function of chemical composition and
structure with the use of above mentioned analytical techniques.