CISTeC has its headquarters at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, in via Eudossiana 18, in the premises of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment, the reference department for administrative-accounting management.
Some laboratories and part of the instrumentation managed by CISTeC are located at the headquarters. Other instruments and laboratories are available, for non-exclusive use, at the proposing departments, as per the relevant resolutions of membership of the Centre.
HERITAGE LAB
The Heritage Laboratory (widespread laboratory) of the Center is equipped with the latest generation of advanced instrumentation for a total and precise chemical-physical analysis of any type of sample such as polymers, plastic materials, pigments, stone materials (stones and marbles) and lithoids ( bricks, mortars, plasters), ceramics, wood, metals, nanostructured materials, high viscosity fluids, photovoltaic materials, bituminous materials.
In addition to normal laboratory instruments, the main equipment is:
- FT-Raman spectroscopy
- Infrared spectroscopy with a microscope (micro-FTIR) equipped with an ATR objective
- Raman spectroscopy with microscope (micro-Raman)
- ATR infrared spectroscopy
- Portable FTIR spectrometer
- Thermal analysis (TGA-DSC and MDSC)
- X-ray powder diffractometry (XRD)
- Rotating spreader
- Benchtop extruder
- Viscometer
- Mercury porosimeter
- Optical and stereoscopic microscopes
- Rooms with air conditioning
- Preparative for thick and thin sections
- Microclimate probes