Facilities Overview
There are various facilities and items of equipment available for use by the nanotechnology community at Nanoscience & nanotechnology Institute. These include facilities for processing and characterising materials. These facilities are available for use by researchers in both academia and industry.
Transmission Electron Microscope / 200 kV TEM / FEG TEM (JEM-2100)
SEM IT100 – JEOL – JAPAN
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) WI Tec's (AFM)
X-Ray diffraction (Shimadzu 6000)
Nano Test (high-resolution mechanical property analysis in the Nano and Micrometer regimes)
Nanofiber electrospinning System (MECC NANON)
High Energy Ball Milling (Emax)
Contact angel& Topography (Biolin Scientific)
High Performance Picosecond Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer (PicoQuant, FluoTime200)
Particle Size Analyzer- Zeta Potential (Brookhaven, USA)
Spectrofluorometer (Shimadzu RF-5301PC)
UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu UV-2450)
FT/IR-4000 and 6000 Series
NOVA SURFACE AREA AND PORE SIZE BY GAS SORPTION
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM)
Cyclic Voltammetry
Photo reactor with different irradiation wavelengths (l =254, and 365 nm)
Microwave Synthesis (Milestone Microwave Synthesis Lab station)
Thermogravimetric Analyzers (Shimadzu TGA-50/DTA-50)
Pulsed Ultrasonic (branson-sonifier 250)
High temperature muffle furnace, (Nabertherm GmbH)
Vacuum Oven (DZF-6050 RT, 200oC
Deionized water (milli-Q-integral 5 system)
LABstar Glove Box Workstation (MBRAUN)