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With PREM support, UPRH has improved the infrastructure for Materials Research and Education with the acquisition of new instrumentation. Facilities include three laboratories for materials preparation and characterization, a computational mathematics research laboratory, and a Videoconference Room. Facilities are shared with the UPRH community, other universities, and industry.

Contact: Facilities Coordinator, Anamaris Meléndez at 787-850-0000, ext. 9025, anamaris.melendez@upr.edu or the PREM Program at ext. 9017, prem.uprh@upr.edu.

Materials Processing

Faculty Coordinators: Nicholas Pinto and Idalia Ramos

  • Benchtop Thermal Evaporator DSCT Vac Coat
  • RF Plasma Barrel Reactor, PT7160 Polaron Range
  • Spin Casting Instrument
  • Drying Furnace, DX 300 Yamato
  • Air Furnace (Orton Sentry 2.0)
  • Tube Furnaces, GHC 12/1200 Carbolite; 21100 ThermolyneC
  • Electrospinning Station with Syringe Pump and High Voltage Source
  • Tip Sonicator Q500 QSonica
  • Manual Critical Point Dryer Tousimis, Sandri-PVT-3D
  • High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge, Allegra 64R, Beckman Coulter
  • Glove Box System
  • 3D Printers (Resin and Filament)
  • Two Hydraulic Presses, Model C Carver and Caver Standard Pellet Press
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Thermal Evaporator

Materials Characterization

Coordinators: Idalia Ramos, Nicholas Pinto, Rolando Oyola

  • AFM-Raman Confocal Microscope NTEGRA SPECTRA-II
  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) JEOL JSM-IT- 100 with Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS)
  • Nikon Stereoscopic Microscopes
  • Optical Microscope with Camera
  • Agilent Impedance Materials Analyzer (40-110MHz)
  • UV-vis Spectrophotometer
  • Three Electrical Characterization Stations (Two with Low Temperature Cryostats)
  • Semiconductor Analyzer; Gas Sensing Station
  • Two Electrochemical Measurement Systems: Potentiostat/Galvanostat
  • Lock-In Amplifier
  • Ferroelectric Tester
  • Metler Toledo Thermal Analysis TGA 2
  • Metler Toledo Thermal Analysis DSC 3
  • Anton Paar MCR 702 TwinDrive Modular Compact Rheometer with DRD, DMA and CTD 600
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SEM

Modeling Laboratory

Faculty Coordinator: José Sotero

Main simulation server with Dual Intel Xeon processors (24 cores) and four NVIDIA Fermi GPGPUs, File/web server with 7TB RAID storage system. Software includes compilers, molecular dynamics simulation software (namd, gromacs, LAMMPS, VMD, Wolffia (developed by PREM Computational Mathematics group), Matlab and Comsol.

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Videoconference Room

Faculty Coordinator: Idalia Ramos

Equipped with a large-screen Smart TV and an Owl Labs 360° smart video conference system. This space is ideal for videoconferences and in-person seminars (capacity: up to 30 people).

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