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Processing Polymers

The Polymer Science Centre is at the forefront of the development of in-situ x-ray and neutron scattering techniques which allow quantitative detail of the structural reorganisation which accompanies processing to be observed in a time resolving manner.
Specially designed shear and extensional flow cells, uniaxial and biaxial extensional systems, channel die deformation and a couette cell have been developed and exploited in research programmes at Reading. 
This is a picture of one parallel plate shear cell which ahs been constructed at reading for the study of liquid crystal polymers, crystallisable polymers and nano-structured polymes containing clay and other additives

 

 

 

 

 

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