Chemical laboratory
The chemical laboratory is used to obtain nanomaterials and their functionalisation or biofunctionalisation, and to prepare samples for physicochemical and biological testing. We have a stock of over 1,000 different chemical reagents for the synthesis of materials: metallic, polymeric, carbonaceous, films or hybrids, and their functionalisation.
Obtaining nanomaterials
Equipment
- Two fully glazed gloveboxes (two- and five-gloveboxes) for working in a controlled atmosphere with manually operated sluice gates
- Autoclaves with Teflon interiors in different volumes for reactions under elevated pressure
- Muffle furnaces with heating up to 1100 oC and tube furnaces with heating up to 1600 oC in a controlled atmosphere.
- Centrifuges with different centrifugation speeds (from 4 000 rpm to 28 000 rpm) and volumes
- Heidolph rotary evaporators with automatic temperature and speed control and manual vacuum controller
- Centrifugal evaporator
Characteristics of nanomaterials
Equipment:
- Sievers 280i nitrogen oxide analyser
- Transilluminator
- STUART SMP10 Melting Temperature Apparatus
- Spectrofluorimeter
Differential Scanning Calorimeter DSC 8000 (Perkin Elmer)
- wide temperature range tested, from -160°C to +500°C;
- heating/cooling rate from 0.01ºC to 200ºC/min;
- remarkable measuring precision, ±0.008°C;
- direct measurement of heat (energy) flow - no conversion required;
- two furnaces with significantly less weight than the single furnace used in other DSC units;
- The design of the oven allows a rapid thermal response and reduced cooling time;
- high chemical resistance;
- High-pressure option to measure samples up to 600 psi (41 bar)
Lambda 950 UV/Vis/NIR Spectrophotometer
The LAMBDA 950 spectrophotometer is a UV/Vis/NIR measuring system with the highest performance:
- double beam;
- dual monochromator;
- wide range of measured wavelengths - from 190 nm to 3300 nm;
- UV/Vis resolution ≤ 0.05 nm;
- NIR resolution ≤ 0.20 nm;
- applications: compound characterisation, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis (purity, homogeneity), UV, VIS and NIR filter characterisation and many more.
Other equipment
- Analytical balances
- Retsch mixer mill MM400
- Ultrasonic homogenisers
- Lyophiliser
- Magnetic and mechanical agitators
- Spincoater
- Diaphragm pumps
Hydrofluoric acid laboratory
The NanoBioMedical Centre has a laboratory dedicated to safe work in hydrofluoric acid, equipped with a special fume cupboard and personal protective equipment dedicated to working with HF.