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Educational Programs:
The Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors offers two graduate
programs, the PhD degree in Textile Sciences, and the MS degree in Textiles,
Merchandising and Interiors. Students in the PhD program specialize in textile
science areas, while the MS degree program includes textile science, international
trade, textile and apparel marketing, and historic textiles and apparel.
Textile science includes analysis of polymers and fibers, dyeing and finishing,
textile testing and analysis, and environmental aspects of textiles. Areas
of specialization include polymer formation and degradation, dyeing, finishing,
nonwovens, product standards, color science, and environmental issues and
legislation.
Seven textile science faculty members offer expertise in dyeing theory and
applications, color science, enzymatic treatment of textiles, polymers, analytical
chemistry, infrared spectroscopy, degradability of polymer products, and
environmental chemistry.
Research Programs:
The textile science faculty at The University
of Georgia take a very active role in research and technology transfers
oriented toward solving problems and creating opportunities for Georgia's
textile, carpet and apparel companies. At UGA, the faculty in textile science,
along with collaborators in biological and textile engineering and biochemistry,
have spearheaded research in environmental chemistry, innovative biotechnology
applications, product development and recycling of textile by-products.
Faculty currently are involved in funded research and consulting with more
than 30 companies. These include chemical, fiber, carpet, textile and apparel
manufacturers. Students play an active part in these projects.
Facilities:
Textile science laboratories are fully equipped, including
a physical testing lab with all major textile testing instruments, and a
microscopy lab. Chemical, optical, chromatography and analytical laboratories
contain FTIR, Raman, near and mid-IR, GC-MS, HPLC, thermal analysis equipment,
spectrocolorimeters, Ahiba Mathis dyeing machines, computer controlled curing
ovens, and spectrophotometers. A separate pilot-scale laboratory contains
wet processing equipment. Working relationships with Chemistry, Biochemistry,
Microbiology, Biological Engineering, the Center for Advanced Ultrastructural
Research, The Complex Carbohydrates Research Center, and other departments
allow accessibility to additional equipment such as high resolution NMR,
mass spectrometry, and electron microanalysis.
Academic Research Facilities:
- Carding Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
- Dryers, Thru-Air, I-R, Etc.
- Labdryer (Mathis) pin frame
- Dyeing
& Finishing Equipment
- Dyeing Machine, Laboratory, Texomat (Ahiba) Laboratory sample dyeing
machine.
- Dyeing Machine, two-bath (Roaches International)
- Dyeing Machine, Rotohose 50LE Sample Hosiery and Garment (Roaches International)
- Dyeing Unit, SkyPad Laboratory Continuous (Roaches International) for
Indigo Dyestuffs Launder-o-Meter (Atlas)
- Pat-Steam Unit, Mini (Mathis)
- Padder (Rapid Labortex Co. LTD) 17 1/2"
- Padder, Model BVHP 350 Combination Laboratory Vertical/Horizontal (Roaches
International)
- Environmental Testing Equipment
- Agar sterilizer/pourmatic, Agarmatic (Fisher)
- Air Sampler, 6-stage sieve, (Thermo Anderson)
- Autoclave, tabletop, Tuttnauer/Brinkmann (Fisher)
- Bacterial Filtration Efficiency (Andersen Instruments)
- Biological Safety Cabinet (Baker)
- Biological Safety Cabinet (NuAire)
- COD Reactor (Hach)
- Colony Counter, automatic (Fisher)
- Colony Counter, (Microbiology International)
- Dispensette III, (Fisher)
- Dynamic Contact Angle, Analyzer, DCA 322 (Cahn)
- Freezer, chest style (Revco)
- Incubator, Isotemp Economy (Fisher)
- Liquid Strike Through, bacteria and blood Penetration Test Cell (EFD)
- Microtox Toxicity Analyzer, M500 (Azur Environmental)
- Porometer, automated micromoisture perm capillary flow (PM Inc.)
- Spectrophotometer, DR2010 (Hach)
- team Scrubber, mobile (VWR)
- Sterilizer, Bacti-cinerator III
- Surface Tension, Tensiometer
- Vortex Mixer, (Genie2)
- Laboratory Equipment - General Purpose
- licker Press, hydraulic Swing Arm (ATOM SE-8)
- Dissolved Oxygen Meter (Fisher handheld)
- DSC, TGA, &TMA (Mettler) TCII Controller and Star software for
thermal characterization and analysis of polymers, dyes and finishes.
- GC-MS, QP-5000 (Shimadzu)
- GPC (Waters 410)
- Freeze-dry System, benchtop (Fisher)
- PLC (4) (Kratos) with UV-VIS and fluorescence detection
- PLC, Light Scattering Detector
- HPLC System, Diode-Array (Hewlett-Packard) 1100
- Image Analysis System, (2) CCD cameras, Image pro, Adobe Photoshop
software
- Laser light scattering photometer, multi angle
- Micro Manipulator with vacuum tweezers (Ernest Fullam)
- Microscope ( Olympus) BH-2 polarizing with fluorescence
- Microscope ( Olympus) BX50 with Nomarski DIC, phase contrast, polarized
light, brightfield, darkfield and reflectance
- Microscope, binocular dark field ( Olympus) Stereo zoom microscope
with dark field illumination.
- Microscope Stage, Warm (Instec) for observing enzymatic activity
- Microtome (LKB) Ultrotome III
- Porometer (Coulter Electronics) Porometer II - pore size analysis,
permeability, and pressure hold test.
- Quickwash Plus Fabric Testing System (Raitech)
- Refractometer, handheld (Fisher)
- Rotary Evaporator
- Spectrocolorimeter, Reflectance (Hunterlab) LabScan 6000.
- Spectrometer, FTIR (Nicolet) Magna-IR 760
- Spectronic 20 (Bausch & Lomb) Spectrophotometer-multiangle laser
light scattering photometer
- Spectrophotometer (2) (Macbeth) Color-eye, used for color measurements
of solids such as textiles or liquids such as dye solutions or waste
water. Numerous measurement options based on tri-stimulus including CIELAB,
CMC, reflectance spectra, choice of illuminants, observer functions and
apertures
- Spectrophotometer (2) Portable (Macbeth) Color-eye, saves on dye for
above computer analyses of solids
- Spectrophotometer Raman (Nicolet)
- Spectrophotometer, UV-VIS (3) (Schimadzu)
- Spectrophotometer, UV/VIS/NIR (Jasco)
- Viscometer (Brookfield) Digital.
- WaterBath Shaker (New Brunswick Scientific)
- WaterBath Shaker, 2, (Fisher)
- Weathering Tester, UV Accelerated (Q-Panel Company)
- Testing Equipment, Physical
- brasion Tester, Stoll Universal (SOL Atlas)
- Air Permeability Tester (Frazier)
- Air Permeability Tester (Frazier Precision Instruments) Frazier Precision
Instruments, Inc.
- Air Permeability Tester (Schmid)
- Bispectral Fluorescence Colorimeter (Labsphere BFC-450)
- Burst Strength Tester (Mullen) Diaphragm bursting strength method.
- Burst Strength Tester, TruBurst, complete dome assembly set and diaphragms,
(ATI)
- Climatic Chamber (Environmental Specialties, Inc.) 16.5' x 28'
- Color rendition demonstrator (GTI Graphic)
- Contact Heat Test Unit (Roaches International)
- Drape Tester, Cusick (ATI)
- Drum Carder
- Dynamic Contact Angle System (Cahn)
- Environmental Test Chamber (Caron) portable for paper conditions as
well as textile
- Fibrograph 730 and Fibrosampler 192 (Zellweger Uster)
- Fibronaire and Fibroweigh (Motion Control Inc.)
- Fineness Meter, WIRA Wool (Crosrol)
- Flammability, Vertical tester (GovMark)
- Flammability, Oxygen Index Tester (Tarlin Scientific)
- Flammability, 45º tester
- Flammability Box, Carpet
- Flex Abrasion Tester (Custom Scientific Instruments)
- Folding Endurance Tester (Tinius Olsen)
- Gravimetric Absorbency Testing System (M/K Systems)
- Handle-O-Meter (Thwing Albert)
- Hue Tester; Munsell 100, (Gretag MacBeth Farnsworth)
- Humidity Test Chamber, High/Low Temperature (Bryant Mfg.)
- Hydrostatic Pressure Tester (Alfred Suter)
- Impact Penetration Tester
- Iso Tester (Schaffner Technologies)
- LightSpex (McMahan)
- Pilling Tester, Brush (Custom Scientific Instruments)
- Pilling Tester, Random Tumbler (Atlas) PT-2
- Shirley Analyzer (Lawson-Hemphill) F102
- Stelometer (Spinlab)
- Stelometer (Zellweger Uster)
- Tear Tester (Shirley Developments LTD)
- Tear Tester, Falling Pendulum (Elmendorf)
- Tensile Strength (2) (Instron) 4111
- Tensionmeter/Hardness Tester,electronic (Mill Devices)
- Thickness Tester, Digital (TMI)
- Twist Tester, automatic (ATI)
- Ultraviolet Transmittance Analyzer (Labsphere) UV-1000F
- Vibroscope (Mazger)
- Viewing Booth (Macbeth) Spectra Light II
- Yarn Hairiness and Friction Tester/Yarn Abrasion Tester (SDL-Atlas)
- Yarn Sizing Range, pilot scale (SDL-Atlas)
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