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
The CASH Building (TU Dublin Tallaght) and the FOCAS Institute house CREST's dedicated facilities for surface characterisation, coating and surface development, surface engineering, coating formulation synthesis and materials analysis.
CREST's specialized Exposure Laboratory operates within the TU Dublin Aungier Street campus. These facilities are used exclusively for industrial research, with full confidentiality assured.
A selection of high-specification instrumentation and equipment suites maintained across these sites includes:
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
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:
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- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer
- Atomic Spectroscopy