Dr. Valeria HARABAGIU
Romanian Academy
"PetruPoni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (www.icmpp.ro)
Department of Inorganic Polymers
41A, Aleea Grigore Ghica Voda
700487 Iasi
ROMANIA
Tel.: +40-232-217454
Fax: +40-232-211299
Expertise
Functional siloxanes; siloxane-organic copolymers (block, graft, crosslinked, interpenetrated networks); organic-inorganic hybrids; polysilanes (synthesis, optoelectronic properties); polysilane stabilized metal nanoparticles.
Equipment
• Deepcoater KSV LM (2008)
• Microwave-assisted rector "single-mode" DISCOVER LabMate (2010)
• Spin coater (2008)
• Multinuclear NMR 400 spectrometers, Bruker (2005)
• FT-IR, UV-Vis, fluorescence spectrophotometers
• Analytical HPLC (UV and MS detection), Agilent (2008)
• Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) NanoDLS Brookhaven (batch) (2006)
• Size exclusion chromatography (SEC), aqueous phase, multi-angle static light scattering 2012
(2011)
• Size exclusion chromatography (SEC), organic phase (multidetection: refractive index, UV,
viscosity, multi-angle static light scattering detectors) (2012)
• Wide angle X-ray diffraction, Bruker (2006)
• Monocrystal X-ray diffraction, Bruker (2010)
• Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), Bruker (2011)
• Scanning electron microscope Quanta (SEM) (including EDX analysis) (2010)
• Scanning Probe Microscope (AFM), NT MDT (2005)
• Transmission electron microscope (TEM), Hitachi (2011)
• Differential scanning calorimeter, Perkin Elmer (2005)
• Dynamic thermomechanical analyzer, Perkin Elmer (2005)
• Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) coupled with IR and MS detection of evolved gases (2008)
