The Surface Analysis Facility is directed by Jack Hirsch. This facility is available for contract work as needed by companies and other institutions. The facility provides training and consultation for researchers interested in surface composition and /or structure. This battery of instrumentation allows one to gain information about the elemental analysis and chemical composition of a surface. Such techniques for surface characterization are particularly important in adhesive and lubricant development, in printing and coatings research, the electronics industry, and for biomedical implant technology development.

Shared facilities operated by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN). The facility provides state-of-the-art instruments for designing, fabricating, characterizing and testing of complex nano/micro-scale structures and devices. All these advanced tool sets are housed within the 4000 sq. ft. clean room at the Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center. The facility opens to all UNL researchers as well as external (including private sector) researchers for carrying out their research projects in physics, chemistry, nano/microelectronics, MEMs/NEMs, nano-bio, and other related and interdisciplinary areas. Staff support is available for training, process consultation, and collaboration on new process development.

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute has the software, hardware, and experts to provide the support you need for your research no matter what the research area.

Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Supervisor/Coordinator: Douglas Yates
Contact: Douglas Yates
Phone: 215-898-2013
Email: [email protected]
Oversight Committee Chair: Christopher B. Murray, MSE

The Nanoscale Characterization Facility maintains a full-service electron microscopy facility equipped with a wide range of state-of-the-art instrumentation for materials analysis. Structural, chemical and microstructural characterization of polymers, ceramics, composites, metals and alloys, electronic materials and devices, thin films, and coatings are conducted using scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and scanning transmission electron microscopes. A wide range of specimen preparation equipment is used including cryo-ultramicrotomy, cryo-plunge, jet electrolytic polishing, mechanical dimpling, tripod polishing, vacuum evaporation, sputter-coating and replication. In-house hardware and software are available for a wide range of image and spectrum processing tasks and for the calculation/simulation of electron-beam specimen interactions and microscope performance. Facility staff provide complete user training and assistance with research projects involving our instruments. The staff are also available for demand service in situations where training is not desired.

• Microscopy Instruments include:
  • Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope – JEOL 7500F HRSEM
  • Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope – FEI 600 Quanta FEG SEM
  • Focused Ion Beam – FEI Strata DB235 FIB
  • Aberration Corrected Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscope – JEOL NEOARM TEM/STEM
  • JOEL F200 TEM/STEM
• TEM/STEM/EFTEM

A complete facility for analysis and characterization of soft materials and polymers

Open to faculty, students and industrial customers

The Soft Materials Characterization Laboratory (SMCL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a research facility for analysis and characterization of synthetic polymers, soft materials and polymer devices.

To maintain leading-edge research programs, to give students a state-of-the-art education facility and to provide services to industrial clients, we continue to improve this advanced laboratory with new equipment purchased by grants or through gifts from industrial partners.

For use, questions or more information, please contact the Director of the MRSEC facilities:

Dr. Jerry Hunter ([email protected])

(608) 263-1073

Molecular Biology & Biomimetics Laboratories are those in which biological research is carried out for materials science applications. These laboratories include Wilcox 131 &133 (combinatorial-phage and cell surface display; molecular biology, Tamerler & Sarikaya), Wilcox 233 & 235 (protein synthesis, purification and characterization, Tamerler & Sarikaya). Associated laboratories are located in Microbiology (HSB-I 310, 312 and 314; genetics, protein expression and purification, Traxler), Chemical Engineering (Benson 121, 327 & 329; protein engineering, expression, purification and characterization, Baneyx) at the UW.Contact Dr. Hanson Fong for details.

Facility Director

mchabinyc [at] engineering [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Professor Michael Chabinyc)

The MRL Materials Analysis for Conversion of Energy and Storage Laboratory provides instrumentation for measurement of properties of materials that are useful for energy storage and conversion. The multiuser facility includes all equipment necessary to fabricate solar cells and batteries from solution processable organic and inorganic materials.

Equipment for fabrication and testing of electrochemical cells are located in the MRL. All users must finish MRL standard safety training prior to accessing the facility. The equipment for solar cell testing is located in Elings Hall in the CSNI Nanostructures Clean Room.

Training

Battery Testing and Fabrication

Contact: To be Determined

Solar Cell Fabrication and Testing

Users must receive basic clean room training in addition to standard chemical safety training and an
understanding of lab specific chemical hygiene plan to use the equipment (contact bhanson [at] cnsi [dot] ucsb [dot] edu (Bob Hanson) CNSI ). Access to the facilities requires a UCSB building access card.

http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/facilities/building_services/access/

Facility Policies

Any materials entering glove boxes must be logged by the user. Due to the sensitive nature of electronically active materials to impurities and for personal safety of users related to the chemical compatibility of reactive materials, all new materials and processes must be approved prior to usage by the facilities managers. Common materials currently used in the facility include semiconducting polymers and small molecules, ionically conducting polymers, solution processed oxides and metallic forms of main group elements. All reasonable efforts will be made to allow the safe use of the widest range of materials possible. Users violating these rules will have their access privileges revoked.

Shared facilities operated by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN). The Surface and Materials Characterization Facility (SMCF) provides state-of-the-art instruments for nanometer-scale surface measurement, thermal analysis, and mechanical characterization of a vari­ety of materials.