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<body background="Diffractometer/images/Background_1.gif"> <h1><img SRC="images/MatSci-CF%20Banner-1.JPG" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="800" HEIGHT="100"></h1> <h1><b>Materials Science Central Facilities</b></h1> <hr> <p>Materials Science Central Facilities is a group of laboratories which provides a modest but significant research infrastructure for our students, instructors and researchers.   This facility also serves many people from other departments and colleges and it participates in public events such as Picnic Day and outreach programs such as the Clorox Colloquium (select high school students) and the Engineering Summer Residency Program (disadvantaged students).  Please feel free to look around and learn more about central facilities but please note that this page was intended for people on this campus who plan to work in these laboratories. <ul type="disc"> <li><a href="Welcome.htm">Welcome to Materials Science Central Facilities</a></li> <li><a href="Laboratory_Safety.htm">Laboratory Safety Issues</a> (management, training, chemicals, hazards, etc.)</li> <li><a href="Teaching_Laboratory_1.htm">Teaching Laboratory 1</a> (tensile/compression testers, izod/charpy/impact tension tester, hardness testers)</li> <li><a href="Teaching_Laboratory_2.htm">Teaching Laboratory 2</a> (hand grinder, wheel polisher/grinders, furnaces, ovens, cut-off saw, ultrasonic cleaner, fume hood, chemical and flammables storage lockers)</li> <li><a href="Image_Processing_Laboratory.htm">Image Processing Laboratory</a> (optical microscopes, computers, scanners, laser and dye-sublimation printers, copy stand)</li> <li><a href="X-Ray_Diffraction.htm">X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory</a> (powder x-ray diffractometer)</li> <li><a href="Metallography_Laboratory.htm">Metallographic Specimen Preparation Laboratory</a> (polisher/grinders, vibratory polisher, precision high-speed and low-speed saws, electro-polisher/etcher, ultrasonic cleaner, hot plate/stirrer)</li> <li><a href="EM_Specimen_Preparation_Laboratory.htm">Electron Microscopy Specimen Preparation Laboratory</a> (ultrasonic disc cutter, Gatan dimpler, VCR dimpler, ion mill, jet polisher, optical microscope)</li> <li><a href="electron_microscopy.htm">Electron Microscopy</a> (Hitachi H-600 TEM, Phillips CM-12 TEM, ISI-DS SEM, an AFM and soon a new FEG-SEM)</li> <li><a href="Thermal_Analysis_Laboratory.htm">Thermal Analysis Laboratory</a> (DSC, DTA, TGA, DMA, microbalance)</li> <li>Contact the <a href="mailto:fahayes@ucdavis.edu">manager</a> of Central Facilities</li> </ul> <hr> <p><img src="images/Red_Bullet.GIF" alt="WB00882_1.GIF (263 bytes)" WIDTH="15" HEIGHT="15">  <a target="_top" href="http://www.matsci.ucdavis.edu/">Division of Materials Science Home Page</a><br> <img src="images/Red_Bullet.GIF" alt="WB00882_1.GIF (263 bytes)" WIDTH="15" HEIGHT="15">  <a target="_top" href="http://www.chms.ucdavis.edu/">Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Home Page</a></p> <p><em><small><strong>Division of Materials Science</strong><br> If you have any questions or comments regarding this web site please contact the <a href="mailto:chms-admin@ucdavis.edu">webmaster</a>.<br> Updated on June 27, 2001</p> <p>Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science<br> University of California, Davis<br> Davis, CA 95616<br> USA<br> Phone: 530/752-0400<br> Web: <a href="http://www.chms.ucdavis.edu" target="_top">www.chms.ucdavis.edu</a><br> </small></em></p> </body>