You can measure some interesting properties of polymers like their chemical composition, how they look under the microscope and when they melt (if they melt at all). You can also learn processing – doing things like heating, cooling, melting, mixing etc. and studying the effects of these processes on the structure and property of your polymer. For example, you can melt a piece of plastic and let it cool back into a solid – you will see that doing that changed its strength! You can also learn some chemistry and synthesize polymers from monomers.
For graduate students and seasoned researchers, OPALL offers plenty of equipment to carry out your own research when you don’t have those equipment in your own group or when they are down for maintenance.
Above all, OPALL houses learners, masters and builders who are there to help you with your polymer queries. See OPALL’s structure and how to engage with us.
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