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Facilities

The CREST Technology Gateway is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern & Midland Regional Programme 2021-27

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Within the CASH Building in TU Dublin Tallaght and the FOCAS Institute we have dedicated laboratories for chemical synthesis and materials analysis. We also share characterisation facilities with the TU Dublin Research Hubs with whom we collaborate.

We have a dedicated Exposure Laboratory situated within the TU Dublin Aungier St campus. These are used exclusively for industrial research and complete confidentiality can be guaranteed.

We operate and maintain several high specification instruments and equipment suites as detailed below:

 

Exposure Humidity Testing

Exposure QUV Tester

Exposure Salt Spray Cabinets

Exposure Sulphur exposure testing VLM Chamber

Exposure Climate Chamber Freeze Thaw

 

Microscopy SEM-EDX Suite

Microscopy - Zeiss axiolab microscope

Microscopy-Polisher

 

 

Physical Analysis - Bend Tests

Physical Analysis Surface Roughness

Physical Analysis - Coefficient of Friction

 Physical Analysis- Cross Hatch Adhesion

Physical Analysis - DFT Elcometer

Physical Analysis Contact Angle

Physical Analysis Dual Angle Glossmeter

Physical Analysis Mechanical Cupping Test

Physical Analysis Nanoscratch CB 500

Physical Analysis Pencil Hardness

Physical Analysis Pendulum Hardness Instrument

Physical Analysis Profilometer Jr25

Physical Analysis Scrub Tester

Physical Analysis Specific Gravity_Hydrometer

Physical Analysis Specific Gravity-Pycnometer

Physical Analysis Spectrophotometer

Physical Analysis Taber Abraser

Physical Analysis Tensile Tester

Physical Analysis Viscometer

 

 

 

 

 

Prototyping - 3D Printer Creality Ender

Protoyping - Composite Manufacturing Suite

Protoyping-3-D Printer Elgoo

Spectroscopy Metricon M-Lines (RI)

Spectroscopy XRD

Spectroscopy XRF

Thermal Analysis DSC

Thermal Analysis TGA

View further information on FOCAS Equipment

  • FT-IR spectroscope
  • UV/VIS/NIR Spectrometer
  • Luminescence Spectrometer
  • Raman spectroscope
  • Raman spectroscope with dual upright and inverted microscopes
  • Atomic Force Microscope
  • Particle sizer

View further information on ESHI Equipment

In addition, CREST has access to several high specification instruments and equipment suites within TU Dublin including the following:

Typical samples:
Samples that are suitable for humidity testing include coated materials, solar panels, electrical
components, adhesives, glazing products, pharmaceutical containers etc.
Standards:
Samples are prepared and tested following international standards including ASTM D 2247 – 02,
and I.S EN ISO 6270.
Contact: Dr Irina Pascu, irina.pascu@tudublin.ie, +353-1-220-6911