Equipment

The High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) at FSU has a complete set of state-of-the-art processing, testing, characterization and computing facilities for materials, composites and nanocomposite research. Most equipment, valued at approximately $8,000,000 is housed in the 45,000 square foot Materials Research Building. HPMI has the resources multiple capabilities including:

Advanced Manufacturing

nScrypt 3D-450n/MTGeng
Laser annealing nScrypt 3D-300n with pick-n-place/conformal mapping
Optomec Aerosol jet printer
Stratasys Objet and Dimension systems
DeXter printer and in-house autonomous-AM robotic system (AR3iS)
KLA iNano Nanoindenter with hardness and modulus property mapping
Lulzbots (6)
In-house custom 3D printers
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Resources

Environmental Property Testing
Imaging and Microscopy
Materials, Composites and Nanocomposite Processing
Materials Synthesis
Mechanical Property Testing
Modeling and Simulation
Spectroscopy
Thermal Analysis
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Materials Synthesis


Materials, Composites and Nanocomposite Processing


Imaging and Microscopy


Spectrocopy


Thermal Analysis


Electrical Conductivity Measurements
  • Four-probe, two-probe, and surface electrical resistivity measurement setups (four Keithley 2002 MEM multimeters and HP power supplies) (MRB 248)
  • Janis Research VPF-100 cryostat system


Mechanical Property Testing


Environmental Property Testing


Modeling and Simulation
  • Thermal analysis software (ABAQUS, ANSYS, MARC)
  • Molecular dynamics modeling of interfacial bonding and load transfer (Materials Studio (SGI Origin 300), LAMMPS (Teragold IBM p-Series 690))
  • Modeling of conductive network-electrical property relationships for polymer/carbon nanotube composites
  • Simulation software for composite materials processing (RTMSim, etc.)

 

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