Facilities

The equipment includes:

  • Bioprinter 3D (3D-Ed, Life SI)
  • Electrospinning unit (2.2.D-350, YFLOW)
  • Electrospinning units (lab made)
  • General Lab equipment
  • High vacum pumps
  • High-speed centrifuges
  • Homogenizer ultra turrax
  • Incubator oven, vacuum oven
  • Liquid Extrusion Porosimeter (LEP-1100, Porous Materials Inc.)
  • MEW (melt electrospinning writing) (Life SI)
  • Rotary evaporator
  • Optical microscope (Optika, B-290TB)
  • Shaking incubator
  • Ultrasonic sonicator baths
  • Vibrating sifter
  • Viscosimeters (rotational and Ubbelohde)

Other research facilities available at INTEMA’s labs include:

  • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) (Agilent)
  • X-ray Diffractometry (XRD) (Shimadzu XRD-7000)
  • Confocal Raman Spectrometry (Invia, Renishaw)
  • Contact Angle Goniometer (Ramé-hart Instrument Co.)
  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) (Perkin-Elmer Pyris 1 and Shimadzu DSC-50)
  • Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA) (Perkin Elmer DMA-7)
  • Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) (Shimatzu, model Prominence) equipped with a refractive index detector (RID-20A), and two columns in series (Shim-pack GPC-803 and GPC-804)
  • Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) (Nicolet 6700 Thermo Scientific) coupled to microscope (Centaurus Nicolet)
  • Lyophilizer (Virtis SP Industries, Benchtop 2.0K)
  • Nanoindenter–Scratch (Hysitron Inc.)
  • Optical microscope (OM, Leica)
  • Rheometer (Anton Paar, Physica MCR 301)
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM, EDAX) (JEOL JSM-6460/LV)
  • Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) (Shimadzu TGA-50)
  • Ultracentrifuge (Sigma Laboratory Centrifuges)
  • Ultraviolet-visible Spectrometry (Agilent 8453)
  • Universal Testing Machine (INSTRON 4467)