FACILITY
Location
Chasm is located In the heart of the Boston/128 Technology Belt, the Northeast’s hub for technology commercialization and investment.
Facilities
Chasm’s new headquarters, which opened in November 2007, enables the company to efficiently serve clients by providing both technical and business expertise and support in a seamless, integrated environment.
- 5,000 square feet
- laboratory
- pilot plant
- state-of-the-art equipment
- meeting rooms
- videoconferencing capability
Equipment
Chemical formulation, compounding and processing
- Specialty weigh hood for nanoparticles
- Fume hoods
- Grinder
- Jar mill
- High shear mixer
- Sonicator
- FlackTec mixer
- Agitators and reactors
- Hotplates and magnetic stirrers
- Sterilization
- Filtration
- Reflux processing
- Centrifuge and ultracentrifuge
- Vacuum oven
- Drying oven
- Muffle furnace
Materials and product characterization
- Analytical balances
- UV-vis-NIR
- FTIR
- TGA
- Atomic absorption
- Titration
- pH
- Corning Conductivity Meter 441
- Acid digestion
- Interfacial tensiometer
- Goniometer
- Brookfield viscometer
- Haake rheometer
- Melt rheometer
- Optical microscopes
- Particle size nalyzer
- Electrical resistivity
- Abrasion/wear tester
- Thickness gauges
- Hardness tester
- Smoothness tester
- Stiffness tester
- Instron (coming soon)
Coating and printing
- Clean-bench sheet coating
- Bench-top dynamic roll-to-roll loop coating
- Pilot-scale roll-to-roll coating
- XY-computer controlled-spray coating
- Application methods including rod, slot die and cascade
- Ink jet printing (coming soon)