On Wednesday March 3rd, a group of students participating in the European Project “European Challenges in Sustainability by Biotechnology” visited the Industrial Chemistry Polymers Lab of the Chemistry Department of the University of Athens.

Professor Marinos Pitsikalis and his team welcomed us and made for us a thorough guided tour in the Polymer preparation labs. The aim of the lab is the preparation of various polymers with special interesting properties. We were impressed by the high vacuum lines where polymers are prepared under inert conditions, air and humidity absolutely excluded. Moreover glassware constructions were all made by scientists and students.

We were also guided to the instrumental analysis lab where purity and polymerization grade of prepared polymers are determined with the use of photometric, viscosity and liquid chromatographic techniques (gel permeation HPLC).

Visit at the Industrial Chemistry – Polymers Lab of Chemistry Department of University of Athens