Instrumentation
Major equipment capabilities at CBME include:- a separate microscopy room that houses upright and inverted fluorescence microscopes, and a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal scanning laser microscope (2 laser/4 color)
- Accuri C6 analyzing flow cytometer and a three-laser BD FACSVantage flow cytometer
- Molecular Devices SpectraMax M5 fluorescence plate reader equipped with emission and excitation monochromators and 384-well plate reading capability.
- Other equipment includes a Biacore X-100 surface plasmon resonance instrument
- Perkin-Elmer UV-VIS spectrophotometer
- two PTI QuantaMaster fluorimeters, one with lifetime measurement capability
- Aviv 410 circular dichroism spectrometer
- Molecular Imaging atomic force microscope
- Raman instrumentation including a Horiba 750M spectrometer with visible and near-infrared laser excitation sources and LN-CCD detector
- Thermoelectric FTIR spectrometer equipped with surface reflectance measurement capability
- Malvern Zetasizer zeta potential instrument
- spectroscopic ellipsometer
- rf reactor for plasma polymerization
- electrosprayer, static and dynamic light scattering detectors
- Langmuir trough with fluorescence microscopy
- suite of commercial and custom made fluorescence spectroscopy instrumentation
- AKTA FPLC
- Agilent 1100 HPLC
- service-center (fee based) Waters ultra-performance convergence chromatography/mass spectroscopy system
- custom 3D bioprinters and a regular 3D printer
- electrospinners
- servohydraulic test frame
- high resolution motion capture system
- high strength printer (Kevlar, fiberglass, carbon fiber, etc.)