Biomaterials Characterization Equipment

• Uniaxial mechanical testing machine (Instron, Canton, MA)
• Mercury porosimeter (Micromeritics, Autopore III, USA).
• Rame’-Hart contact angle goniometer
• Hewlett Packard LC 1100 series Gel Permeation Chromatography
• Agilent 1100 series High Performance Liquid Chromatography
• Brookfield PRO II Viscometer
• UV-VIS spectrophotometer

Scaffold Fabrication Equipment

• In-house Constructed Electrospinning Apparatus
• Microsphere fabrication facility
• Braiding machine

In Vitro Cellular Analysis Equipment

• Cell hood
• TECAN Spectra Fluor+
• Centrifuge
• Microscope
• MicroCT
• Guava Cell Counter
• Polymerase Chain Reaction Instrument
• Cryogenic Cell storage facility
• Surgery Suite

Other Equipment at our Access

• Thermo Nicolet Nexxus 670 infrared spectrometer
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
• PGT IMIX-SPIRIT energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) detector with an ultra-thin window for light element detection down to boron
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• X-Ray Diffraction Spectroscopy
• Varian Oxford 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis
• Rheometer
• Rame’-Hart contact angle goniometer, model 200-00 with a digital interface
• Transmission Electron Microscopes:
• JEOL 1230 with real-time digital imaging(2Kx2K) and ultra high resolution digital imaging (4Kx4K)
• JEOL 100CXII with real-time digital imaging (2Kx2K)
• JEOL 2000FXII 200kV Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Scanning Electron Microscope:
• JEOL 6400 with Orion image processing
• JEOL JSM-6700F, JEOL JSM 840 with image processing software
• Confocal Microscopes:
• Zeiss LSM 510
• Zeiss LSM 510 with Purple Diode laser (for excitation of DAPI)
• Zeiss LSM 510-META/FCS with an Eppendorf Micromanipulator and injector
• Zeiss Axiovert Wide-Field
• Improvision Volocity 4D Rendering Software
• High Resolution Vacuum Evaporator for rotary shadowing
• Reichert (Leica) Ultracut Ultramicrotomes (3)
• Critical Point Dryer
• Sputter Coater