Established with partial support from TAML (Tennessee Advanced Materials Laboratory), the Polymer Characterization Laboratory (PCL) is a new facility housed in the Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee. It is one of the premier academic laboratories in the world for characterizing polymers in terms of molecular weight, molecular weight distribution, conformation, size, and thermal properties. The lab serves a wide range of users from across the UT campus, as well as external users from industry and national laboratories.