Equipment and Facilities
The CAPE Laboratory is equipped with an outstanding array of polymer and composite processing and prototyping equipment, ranging from bench-scale units to industrial scale capabilities. Housed in a dedicated facility with more than 10,000 square feet of laboratory space, the equipment includes:
Other Equipment On Campus
The lab also has ready access to a range of other advanced
analytical instruments across the South Dakota Mines campus, including:
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- BET surface analyzer C, S, H, N and O elemental analyzer
- Chromatography: Gas and Liquid, Gel and Ion
- Field emission variable pressure hi-resolution ESEM
- Inductively coupled argon plasma mass spectrometry
- Interfacial force microscopy
- Hysitron nano-indenter and MTS nano-indenter
- Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
- Laser Raman spectroscopy
- Mid- and Near- infrared spectroscopy
- NMR spectroscopy
- SEM with energy-dispersive X-ray analyzer
- Scanning/Transmission electron microscopy
- Scanning probe microscopy (AFM, IFM and STM)
- Time correlated single photon counting fluorescence spectroscopy
- UV-Vis spectroscopy
- Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
- X-Ray diffraction