Location: J-204
Phone: 3938-7232
Responsible: Lea Lopes - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Instrumental Support Laboratory Professor Elisabeth E.C. Monteiro (LAPIN 1) is a multiuser laboratory, intended for the structural characterization and evaluation of physical and chemical properties of polymers. It meets requests for work developed at IMA and other teaching and research institutions, as well as from private companies (through the Unit's Service Management).

The technical team of the laboratory is formed by:

• Bruno Passos Costa
• Léa Maria de Almeida Lopes
• Márcia Regina Benzi
• Mariana Amorim de Almeida

LAPIN 1 has the following equipments installed:

• FTIR Spectrometer 3100 (Excalibur Series), Varian
• Cary 100 Conc, Varian UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• TGA Q-500 Thermogravimetric Analyzer, TA Instruments
• DSC Q-1000 Differential Scanning Calorimeter, TA Instruments
• DSC-7 Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Perkin Elmer
• AR-2000 rheometer with ETC oven, TA Instruments

Location: J-000
Phone: 3938-xxxx
Responsible:

Location: J-206
Phone: 3938-7234
Responsible: Sandra Albinante - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Instrumental Support Laboratory 2 (LAPIN 2) is a multi-user laboratory, intended for the superficial, structural and morphological characterization of polymeric materials. This laboratory conducts analyzes for the IMA student and faculty community in order to obtain results for the progress of the work developed at the institute. It also carries out analyzes for other teaching and research institutions and for private companies (through the Service Management).

LAPIN 2 consists of two laboratory techniques:

• Sandra Regina Albinante
• Taíssa Zangerolami Lopes

LAPIN 2 has the following equipments:

• Surface area analyzer (ASAP2000), Micromeritics
• Miniflex X-ray diffractometer, Rigaku
• Low angle X-ray diffractometer, Rigaku
• Optical stereomicroscope, Olympus, SZH10
• Scanning electron microscope (SEM), JEOL, JSM 5610LV
• Optical microscope (MO), Olympus, BX50 coupled to an image analyzer

Location: J-115
Phone: 3938-8260
Responsible: Roberto Neto - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory of low magnetic resolution, involving exclusively analyzes of the hydrogen nucleus and has 4 NMR equipment:

• MQC nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer - 5MHz
• 23 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (2 devices)
• Pico-Spin nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer - 45 MHz

It develops characterization methodologies for different polymeric materials, ranging from homopolymers to nanostructured materials, in solid, liquid and gel forms, used in several applications, such as packaging, adhesives, petrochemicals and controlled drug release. These studies are performed by means of relaxometry via determination of the spin-net and spin-spin relaxation times, in addition to the 2D, T1T2 determinations.

Hydrogen spectra of materials in liquid form can be obtained from the pico-spin spectrometer.

In this laboratory, food characterization studies are also carried out, either in its integral or modified form, by means of relaxometry analyzes to determine the nuclear relaxation parameters and by the MQC to determine the oil content.