Facilities

CNST laboratories have the following capabilities:

• Atomic scale imaging (transmission electron microscopy, STM, in vacuum, air and at different temperatures)
• Atomic force microscopy
  • Asylum MFP-3D Atomic Force Microscope
• Suface plasmon resonance spectroscopy
• Advanced spectroscopic techniques, allowing the detection and characterisation of single nanoparticles.
  • Agilent 8453 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  • Cary 4000 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer (with diffuse reflectance accessory)
  • Fluorolog Horiba Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
  • Olympus IX71 Digital Widefield Fluorescence Microscope
• Confocal microscopy
  • Leica Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Confocal Fluorescence Microscope
• Ellipsometry
• Quartz crystal microgravimetry
• Raman spectroscopy
• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
  • Varian 7000 Fourier Transform-IR Spectrophotometer
• Dynamic light scattering
  • Malvern HPPS particle sizer (DLS)
• Particle sizing
  • Malvern Zetasizer
• Freeze Drying
  • Heto Drywinner Freeze-Dryer
• Furnaces
  • Bel Jetlow K2 Chamber Furnace (with Shimaden FP93 Controller)
• Automated Sample Handling
  • Stratosequence VI Robotic Dipper
• Flow cytometer (Partec)
• Imaging flow cytometer (Amnis Imagestream)
• Farfield dual polarisation interferometer
• Degassing and vacuum line