Welcome to the Seymour II project! Seymour II is an open source, inexpensive, extentional rheometer developed at the University of Cambridge by researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
About Seymour
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Discover the Seymour development story and learn about how it has been validated against laboratory-based extensional rheometers |
Projects
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Explore the projects that Seymour has been used in - from investigating the rheology of pitcher plant fluid in Brunei to use in the University of Cambridge Botanical Gardens |
Build your own!
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Download the engineering drawings and source code to make your own Seymour! Access to an engineering workshop and / or experience in turning and milling will be required! |
Publications
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Read preprints of scientific articles that Seymour has contributed to, or explore other articles on extensional rheology authored by the researchers who created Seymour |