Equipment
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Agilent 1100 HPLC | The Agilent 1100 HPLC system consists of a quarternary pump, column oven and diode array detector and/or evaporative light scattering detector. |
| Asymetric Field Flow Fractionator | The Consenexus AF4 is used to separate molecules based on size using perpindicular Laminar flows as the retarding force. |
| Gas Chromatograph - Chiral | The Agilent 6850A Network Gas chromatograph is equipped with a FID detector and autosampler for automated detection of general organic molecules. |
| Gas Chromatograph - Routine | The Agilent 6850A Network Gas chromatograph is equipped with a FID detector and autosampler for automated detection of general organic molecules. |
| GPC | The Waters GPC is used to determine the size of polymers using gel-permeation chromatography. |
| Waters 150 HPLC | The Waters 150 HPLC is a dual scale (analytical/preparative) instrument with flow rates up to 150mL/min. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Asylum AFM | Asylum MFP3D AFM, Eberly Hall 139. Modes include contact, non-contact (AC), dual AC resonance tracking (DART), force spectroscopy, nanoindentation, nanolithography, scanning Kelvin probe, lateral force, magnetic force (MFM), and CAFM. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Bacterial Incubator | The Kendro bacterial incubator maintains a constant 37oC temperature and is used to grow solid bacterial cultures or process other samples that require a constant temperature. |
| Beckman Avanti J20XP Centrifuge | The Beckman Avanti J20XP is a superspeed centrifuge intended for the isolation of cells, organelles, and other subcellular fractions in a temperature controlled environment. |
| Bioflow Fermenter | The New Brunswick Bioflow 3000 fermentor is used for either batch production of large volumes of cells (up yo 15L). |
| CSS Autoclave | Consolidated Stills and Sterilizers 260L Autoclave. This instrument is used for the sterilization of biological media and dry goods. |
| Gator Biolayer Interferometer | The GatorBio Pilot BLI system measures the binding interactions of molecules for quantitative analysis or characterization of binding and dissociation kinetics (k-on and k-off, giving KD). |
| Innova Shaking Incubator | The NBS 400 Innova shaking incubator is used for growing bacterial cultures under constant temperature and with constant aeration by shaking. |
| NBS Floor Shaker | The New Brunswick G25 shaking incubator is used to grow bacterial culture under controlled temperature and aeration conditions. It has a larger volume than the Innova 400 incubator. |
| Tissue Culture Lab | Facility includes Biosafety hoods, inverted microscope, CO2 incubators, surgery hood, liquid nitrogen storage, and Type I water system. |
| Tuttnauer Benchtop Autoclave | The Tuttnauer benchtop autoclave is used for the sterilization of media and small volumes of laboratory goods using heat and pressure. |
| Water Bath Incubator | The water bath incubator is used to grow bacterial cultures requiring elevated temperatures. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Beckman GS6 Centrifuge | The Beckman GS6 centrifuge is used for the isolation of large volumes of materials using a swinging bucket rotor. |
| Beckman TLX-100 Ultracentrifuge | The Beckman TLX-100 bench top ultracentrifuge is used to pellet small samples (typically 1-2 mL volume per tube) at very high speed. |
| Fisher Ultrasonic Processor | The Fiaher 500 ultrasonic processor uses ultrasound to process solutions. |
| Fujifilm Diamatrix Materials Printer | The Diamatrix materials printer is a inkjet printer designed for the controlled deposition of materials onto a substrate surface up to 25mm thick. |
| Kendro TC-7 Centrifuge | The Kendro TC-7 centrifuge is a low speed swinging bucket centrifuge for 15 and 50mL tubes (such as Falcon tubes). It's maximum speed is 3200 xG and the instrument is refrigerated. |
| KenTik RQF-1 Quench Flow | KenTik RQF-1 quench flow system for the isolation of transient intermediates on a sub-second time scale using controlled volume reaction loops and cryogenic freezing. |
| Labconco Lyophilizer | The Labconco Freezone 6 lyophilizer is used to remove solvents from samples via sublimation. |
| Langmuir Blodgett Trough | The KSV Langmuir-Blodget (LB) trough is used to prepare mono- and multilayer samples deposited on planar substrates. |
| Low-temperature Lyophilizer | The low-temperature lyophilizer is used to remove solvents via sublimation from samples under vacuum. |
| Microfluidic Processor | The microfluidic processor used high pressure compressed air to force solution through small holes in a metal die. |
| Muffle Furnace | The Thermoline fuffle furnace reaches temperatures up to 1100C and is used for thermal annealing, ashing, and similar applications. |
| Ozone Cleaner | The ozone cleaner uses a combination of ozone and UV light to clean organic contamination deposited on surfaces. |
| Speedvac Concentrator | The speedvac concentratior is used for drying biological samples under vacuum and heat to remove solvent. |
| UV Transluminator | The Fotodyne UV transluminator is used as an ultraviolet light source to effect photochemistry. |
| Wellsbach Ozone Generator | High volume ozone generator for synthetic applications. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| BioRad Geldoc XR Imager | The Bio-Rad XR+ gel documentation system is routinely used to image polyacrylamide and agarose gels as well as blots and plates. |
| Fluorescence Microscope | The Olympus BX-51WI microscope can be employed for brightfield or fluorescence imaging up to 1000x with image collection using a thermoelectrically cooled CCD camera. |
| Motic Stereo Microscope | Stereomicroscope with video and still photo capability. Zoom up to 40x (60x with optional Barlow lens). Can also perform darkfield and polarization microscopy. |
| Olympus BH2 Polarizing Microscope | The Olympus BH2 microscope can be operated in either brightfield or polarization mode using either transmitted or reflected light. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Cary 5000 UV-vis-NIR | The Cary 5000 is a research grade dual-beam UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer (180-3200nm) with enhanced light throughput and detector sensitivity. |
| Horiba Fluoromax 3 | The Fluoromax 3 fluorescence spectrometer has a practical working range of 190-900nm. |
| Jasco Circular Dichroism | The Jasco J-710 circular dichroism spectrophotometer is used to measure the difference in electronic absorption. |
| Jasco P-2000 polarimeter | The Jasco P-2000 is a polarimeter for measuring the optical activity of compounds at specific wavelength, typically the sodium D-line at 589nm. |
| Novocontrol Concept 80 Dielectric Impedance Spectrometer | Dielectric, conductivity, and impedance spectrometer with broad range temperature control from -160C to 400C with +/- 0.01C temperature stability. |
| Qubit 4 Fluorescence | The Qubit 4 fluorescence spectrometer is used for the rapid quantification of DNA, RNA, and proteins using reagent kits. |
| See Mossbauer Spectrometer | The See Co Mossbauer spectrometer is used to measure the resonant absorption of gamma ray radiation by an atomic nucleus, namely Fe. |
| Thermo Evolution 600 | The Thermo Evolution 600 UV-vis spectrophotometer is a dual-beam spectrophotometer with a wavelength range of 190-900nm. |
| Thermo iS50 FTIR/VCD/PMIRRAS | The Thermo Fisher iS50 FTIR is a research grade step-scan FTIR for the analysis of the vibrational spectra of organic and inorganic compounds. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Differential Scanning Calorimeter | The Perkin Elmer Pyris 6 DSC is used to measure the thermodynamic parameters associated with phase transitions including melting, crystalliation, and glass transitions. |
| Malvern ITC-200 | The Malvern ITC-200 isothermal titration calorimeter is used to measure the thermodynamics of molecule-molecule interactions. |
| TA Q800 Dynamic Mechancial Analyser | The TA Q800 DMA is used to measure mechanical and viscoelastic properties of materials at various temperatures and under oscillating stress. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Horiba Raman/AIST AFM | The Horiba Scientific XploRA/SmartSPM confocal TERS system marries a high-sensitivity Raman spectrometer with a high-resolution AIST scanning probe/atomic force microscope, allowing for the cospatial collection of Raman vibrational spectra and AFM images. |
| Thermo Fisher ESCALAB 250 Xi XPS | Capabilities include XPS, UPS, ISS, REELS, imaging XPS, small spot XPS, temperature control of sample (77-1000K), gas dosing, angle resolved XPS (ARXPS). |
| Thermo Nexus 6700 FTIR and Continuum microscope | The Nexus 6700 FTIR is a research grade FTIR spectrometer operating in the mid-IR range. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Malvern ZS90 Zetasizer Nano | The Malvern zetasizer nano dynamic light scattering instrument is used to measure the size of particles in solution in the range of approximately 1nm up to 5um in diameter. |
| Surface Tension | The KSV surface tension measurement system is used to measure liquid surface tensions or interfacial tensions using the Wihelmy plate method. |
| Vapor Pressure Osmometer | The vapor pressure osmometer (VPO) is used to measure the molecular weight of macromolecules using the temperature drop method from solvent evaporation. |
| VCA2000 Contact Angle | The video contact angle analyzer is used to measure the hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of surfaces or the surface tension of liquids using the pendent drop method. |
| Equipment Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Packard LSC | The Packard 2000TR liquid scintillation counter (LSC) is used to quantify low-energy radioisotopes, especially alpha and beta emitters. |