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We invest in the most up-to-date analytical and processing research equipment. If you are unsure whether we can meet your needs, please contact us or call us on 0114 225 3500 about your enquiry. 

Please see below for equipment and services available at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute.

Equipment A-Z

• Accelerated weathering testing
• Analytical transmission electron microscope (TEM/STEM)
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
• Concrete testing
• Contact angle measurement
• Corrosion testing facilities (Including, SVET, SDC, SEM)
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Ellipsometry unit
• fatigue test machines for a wide range of materials
• Friction and wear testing facilities
• FTIR spectroscopy - ATR mode
• FTIR spectroscopy - Transmission mode
• Hardness testing
• Hauzer 1000 PVD coating rig
• Infinite focus microscope (IFM)
• Lesker UHV Sputtering Rig
• High performance computing - dedicated multi-core Beowulf Cluster
• Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP)
• Milling - MAZAK high speed machining
• Mossbauer spectroscopy
• Nanoindentation testing
• Neutral Salt Spray testing (ASTM B117)
• Optical imaging and analysis systems
• Organic coatings (paint)
• PVD coating equipment
• Raman spectroscopy
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Scanning Kelvin probe
• Surface engineering (anti-wear or decorative coatings)
• Thermal analysis (TGA, TG-MS, ATD-GCMS)
• Thermal conductivity test 
• Tribological testing
• Weld forming, testing and analysis
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF)