Cambridge Polymer Labs

The Cambridge Polymer Labs is a location in the Commonwealth in Fallout 4. There is a "polymer coating applicator" machine that can combine polymers and isotopes on the first floor after radioactive decontamination. Isotopes and polymers can be found throughout the area.

Background
Cambridge Polymer Labs was created as a result of the research of three CIT graduate students, John Elwood, Erica Woolum, and Wilfred Bergman. The company worked in defense solutions and research for the military.

Main Lobby
When first entering the polymer labs, to the direct left is the orientation room, where Molly briefs the Sole Survivor on a job acquired in the quest Cambridge Polymer Labs. Before entering the orientation room, the male and female restrooms are located in a room to the right. To the right lies a passage that brings the wanderer to the clean room and allows access to the rest of the facility. Behind the service desk is a storage area and a door to the right of the wanderer. This door brings the wanderer upstairs to more storage areas to the immediate right of the top of the staircase as well as a office location to the far left of the second floor. In the center of the 2nd floor is the Directors office. A terminal is located within that further explains what happened before the destruction of the building.

Research Area
The research area has a layout like a vault. On the first floor, as well as the second floor the Sole Survivor will find several numbered samples containers for the quest Cambridge Polymer Labs. A glowing one can be found in a highly irradiated area near the north most section of the first floor. This is also the location of the U-238 also needed for the quest Cambridge Polymer Labs. (see Notable loot for the location of a Hazmat suit in the research area)

Experiment Samples Numbers & Names

 * The Sole Survivor gets a special Piezonucleic power armor chest piece when combining U-238 with (Sample 611 Gold) and (Sample 3111 Lithium Hydride).
 * 11317 Hydrochloric Acid
 * 3111 Lithium Hydride
 * 413 Gallium
 * 49 Cobalt
 * 611 Gold
 * 65 Tungsten


 * Making the Piezonucleic power armor chest piece will complete the experiment and allow you to leave the lab without a fight and with a caps reward.

Notable loot

 * Vault-Tec Lunchbox - When you enter the building head straight back to the wall and on the right you will find it on the counter.
 * Piezonucleic power armor chest piece - Rewarded for completing the experiment.
 * Hazmat suit - In the southwestern-most room (Room immediately left of room C4), on the first floor of the room where the player character first encounters the feral ghouls.
 * Massachusetts Surgical Journal - Can be found in the director's office on the second floor, next to a computer terminal.
 * Fusion core - Found in the west corner of the directors office on the second floor within a display case.
 * Isotope Samples.
 * Unidentified sample 49 - 2nd floor, the room on the east catwalk, on the desk with the skeleton wearing the trilby hat.
 * Unidentified sample 611 - 2nd floor, the room off of the (collapsed) west catwalk, on the desk next to the active computer terminal.
 * Unidentified sample 11317 - In the first room on the Polymer Coating Applicator machine.
 * Unknown sample 3111 - In the same room as the radiation suit (room C4).
 * Unidentified sample 413 - In the first-floor room (room C4) directly across from the room with the Polymer Coating Applicator.
 * Unidentified sample 65 - In the northwestern-most first floor room. The Sole Survivor need to go through the room with unidentified sample 413 to get there.
 * U-238 can be found in the Isotope Containment Chamber. You can unlock it via the terminal in C5 (which you can access via room C4; you can confirm which room is which by reading room numbers on the walls). The Isotope Containment Chamber is the room immediately to the left of room C2, or rather it's the room immediately to the right of the staircase if you're facing said staircase. Be sure to have Rad-X/Rad-Away/a Hazmat Suit before entering as there will be a Glowing One inside as well. Across the radioactive "pond", there is a shelf that has a single test tube in a rack which is the U-238 that you are looking for.

Appearances
The Cambridge Polymer Labs only appears in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes

 * Cambridge Polymer Labs does research for the military. In real life, this work would be for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). However in Fallout, it is called the Defense Experimental Research Projects Initiative, or "DERPI".