The LSP operates the following main equipment (as of 31 May 2007)

High Throughput Olefin Polymerization Catalyst Screening

·          Symyx PPR24^® Polyolefin Workflow*

*    24 individually controlled parallel olefin polymerization microreactors (40 bar, 200°C) with dual injector ports (for solutions and slurries)

Triple glove-box configuration for doubling to PPR48 configuration

Dual arm integrated liquid handling robot (with solution and slurry injection needles)

Integrated Bohdan Robotic Weighing Station

Off-line Integrated HT-GPC and NMR Tools

Genevac EZ-2 Polymer Drying Station

MBraun SPS-5 Solvent Purification System

Symyx Software (PPR Client^®, Library Studio^®, PolyView^®, Epoch^®, Impressionist^®, Symyx Renaissance Application Server)

Oracle Database Server

Olefin Polymerization Reactors

·          Computer-Monitored 2 L Stainless Steel Batch Reactor (Brignole Mod. AU-2 ; 200 bar, 300°C)

·          Computer-Monitored 1 L Stainless Steel Batch Reactor (Brignole Mod. AU-1 ; 200 bar, 300°C)

·          0.30 L Stainless Steel Batch Reactor (Brignole Mod. AU-0.30 ; 100 bar, 200°C)

·          0.15 L Stainless Steel Batch Reactor (Brignole Mod. AU-0.15 ; 100 bar, 200°C)

Controlled Atmosphere Equipment

·          Braun Lab-Master Glove-Boxes

·          Vacuum-Atmospheres Glove-Box

NMR Spectroscopy

 ·          600 (3)*, 500, 400, 300, 200 (3)** MHz Spectrometers (Shared Access)

*     1 with HT 8 mm probe, 1 with HR-MAS and CP-MAS probe, 1 with Cryo-Probe

**   1 dedicated to CP-MAS

·          400 MHz (Bruker Avance DRX 400) Spectrometer (LPS-Owned)

·          Proprietary Software for Spectral Simulation (SHAPE2000 Package) and for Statistical Analysis of Polyolefin Microstructure (ConfStat and CopolStat packages)

X-Ray Diffraction

·          Single-Crystal Diffractometers (2)* (Shared Access)

*     1 with Area Detector

·          Automatic Powder Diffractometers (2)** (Shared Access)

**   1 with VT Cell, 1 with Controlled-Atmosphere Cell

Thermal Analysis

·          DSC (2)*, DSC/TGA**, DMTA*** (Shared access)

*     Perkin Elmer Pyris 1, Perkin-Elmer DSC-7

**   Mettler DSC822/DSC30/TG50, with Low-Temperature DSC Cell

*** Polymer Lab

Gel Permeation Chromatography

·          Waters Alliance GPCV2000 Chromatograph with dual detection system

Mass Spectrometry

·          Access to the Inter-Department Large Scale European MS Facility (“All” Tools)

Computing Facilities

·          Clusters of Opteron units (80 CPUs)

·          HP ES45 Parallel Computers (48 CPUs; Shared Access)