19 September 2013 was an open day in the Center of Polymer and Carbon Materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences. We invited guests to our laboratories so as to present from up close the modern research equipment used in the executed domestic and international projects. Among others, the visitors had the opportunity to see a high-resolution NMR spectrometer used for qualitative and quantitative analyses of chemical compounds, a device for measuring the light dispersed by nanoobjects in solutions, or modern mass spectrometers applied mainly to the research into the structure of polymers and of the low-molecular products of their degradation.
The Center belongs to category A of scientific facilities in Poland. It was established on January 1, 2007 as a result of a merger of the Center of Polymer Chemistry of PAN in Zabrze and the Institute of Carbochemistry of PAN in Gliwice – two centers of the Polish Academy of Sciences which, for many years, had been conducting systematic work on the production and properties of macromolecular polymer and carbon materials.