Sample environments

This is a non-exhaustive set of photographs of sample environments that have been used on the BM26 beamlines. This equipment is not necessarily routinely available.

High temperature furnace for experiments on alkali metals containing alloys (BM26A)

Linkam shear cell

Tensile tester

Soot formation in a butane flame

Polymer extruder (Sheffield University) mounted on BM26B

Extruder sketch by Paul Topham

Caltech extruder

Anton Paar rheometer (funded by the Dutch Polymer Institute)

30 Tesla pulsed magnet (in collaboration with LNCMI Toulouse)

4 Tesla X-Mas magnet (sometimes used on BM26B)

Tea kettle used for artificial muscle experiments (Sheffield University)