Facilities

Contact Information

​Dr. Kathy Lu
Email: klu@vt.edu
Tel: (540) 231-3225
Fax: (540) 231-8919

Virginia Tech
​Materials Science and Engineering Department
213 Holden Hall-M/C 0237
​Blacksburg, VA 24061

​Glove Box

The LABstar glove box workstation is a ready to operate high quality glovebox system that meets your specific application requirements. The system has been designed for customers needing an economic research and development tool to do vital experiments under clean atmospheres

Tube Furnace

This allows for samples to be heated in a specific gas environment.​

AdVantage Freeze Dryer

​The AdVantage Freeze Dryer allows you to configure a bench-top freeze dryer with pilot scale freeze dryer capabilities.​

FESA Zeta-Potential Analyzer

High Temperature Box Furnace

High Temperature Hydrogen Furnace

This furnace allows samples to be placed in the desired gas or water vapor environment.

Labconco Freeze Dryer

Removes water from light to moderate aqueous sample loads.

Sonic Sifter
TA Instrument Rheometer
​ A precision instrument that contains the material of interest in a geometric configuration, controls the environment around it, and applies and measures wide ranges of stress, strain, and strain rate.
Vacuum Furnace