Team:UCLA/Notebook/Materials/25 August 2015

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Instron Data for Tamura (From July 14's spin)

• Note: all of these should have a gauge length of 10 mm. For cross sectional area, use what we obtained in previous microscopy

sample	extension rate	notes
Tamu 2	1 mm/min	broke while being loaded. Unusable data
Tamu 3	1 mm/min	broke literally at the beginning of the test. Too brittle. Unusable data
Tamu 4	0.001 mm/min	Extension rate was dropped to 0.01 mm/min because the fibers were breaking too easily. Data is being weird. 0.01 mm/min is too slow to be continuous, so the data is more or less discrete. Will need to average each data point before analyzing. Additionally, the fiber has a permanent kink in it. Holy crap 0.001 mm/min took over 2.5 hrs and still didn't break. I bumped it up to 0.01 mm/min to get it going faster. I then bumped it up to 0.1 mm/min

• 0.001 mm/min takes literally over an hour. Would recommend 0.1 mm/min.

Concentration Dialysis

• Started at 2:00PM