facilities
Completely renovated in January 2005, the Biobased Advanced Materials Laboratory is a 480 sq. ft. facility, located on the second floor of Cheatham Hall. The instrumentation of the Biobased Advanced Materials Laboratory includes:
bio atomic force microscope- Asylum Research MFP-3D Bio: a high-performance atomic force microscope mounted onto an inverted fluorescence microscope to combine molecular resolution topographic imaging with fluorescence microscopy
- Location
The microscope is currently located in the Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center, approximately 1 mile away from the main campus. - Pertinent Capabilities
Atomic Force Microscope- Asylum Research MFP-3D
- 16µm Z range
- 90µm XY scan range
- Superluminescent diode with an 860 nm wavelength (enables use of red fluorophores)
- Closed loop operation
- X & Y sensor noise < 0.6 nm average deviation (Adev) in a 0.1 Hz-1 kHz bandwidth; sensor non-linearity < 0.5% (Adev/full travel) at full scan.
- Z sensor noise < 0.3 nm Adev in a 0.1 Hz-1 kHz bandwidth; sensor non-linearity < 0.2 % (Adev/full travel) at full scan.
- Optical lever noise < 0.03 nm Adev in a 0.1 Hz to 1 kHz bandwidth
- Top View module (enables optical transmission and phase contrast microscopy)
- Fluorescence Microscope
- Olympus IX 71 Inverted Microscope
- 100% left side port with digital camera
- Magnification changer
- Arc-lamp illuminator
- High-performance filter cubes for DAP, FITC, TRITC
- Filter cube for brightfield reflected light viewing of AFM tip and sample
- 10x eyepiece
- Tilting binocular eyepiece tube
- Centering telescope
- UIS2 objective lenses: Univ Plan Fluor 10x/0.3 Ph1, LWD Univ Plan Fluor 40x/0.6 Ph2, and Plan Apo New 60x/1.42 Oil
- Infrared blocking filter
- polarized light microscope
- Zeiss Axioskop 40 A POL with 5x, 10x, 20x, and 50x objective, lambda and lambda/4 wave plate, and Canon EOS 20D digital single-lens reflex camera (8.2 megapixels)
- refrigerated benchtop centrifuge
- Thermo IEC Centra-GP8R with sealed windshielded swinging bucket rotor (4 x 750 mL, maximum speed/force: 5100 rpm/4550g)
- lyophilizer
- Labconco Freezone 4.5L benchtop freeze dry system
- spin coater
- Laurell Technologies WS-400B-6NPP-Lite, up to 6 inch wafers, 100-6000 rpm
- ultrasonic processor
- Sonics & Materials Model VC-505, 500 watts, 20 kHz with continuous flow cell and peristaltic flow pump
- ultrapure water system
- Millipore Direct-Q 5, 18.2 megaohm cm
- Wiley mini mill
- 1/4 hp, 860/1700/3700 rpm, 20-, 40-, and 60-mesh sieve
- benchtop conductivity meter
- Mettler Toledo SevenMulti S47 with bottle top burette (accuracy: 50 microliter)
- miscellaneous
- digital circulating water bath (19 L), vacuum pump, analytical balance (0-200 g), all purpose oven, vacuum oven, refrigerator/freezer, ultrahigh-torque stirrer, stirring hotplates, ultrasonic cleaner, balance (0-1500 g)
In addition, members of the Roman Research Group have full access to the instrumentation of the Macromolecular Interfaces Institute.
