Facilities

The Center features state of the art equipment housed in the Biodesign Institute Building A, which opened in December 2004. Facilities include the following:

  • Scanning probe microscopy
  • Focused Ion Beam System (for nanoscale fabrication)
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
  • Single molecule fluorescence
  • Surface chemistry facility
  • Computer cluster for theory and modeling

The Bioconjugation and Surface Chemistry Facility

  • Nicolet 6700 FTIR and IR Microscope system: (ATR/GATR/Smart Orbit ATR)
  • Gaertner-Stokes Ellipsometer: measure the thickness and optical properties of extremely thin films or layers of material.
  • Kruss Contact Angle Meter: measurement of surface tension.
  • Analytical and Preparative HPLC system, Agilent HP1100: sample analysis, gradient and isocratic methods.
  • UV-Vis Cary 300 Varian spectrophotometer with 12?position temperature controlled curvette holders: DNA melting experiment.
  • AFM, Atomic Force Microscope: manipulate and image single molecules, scan nanoarrays.
  • Omni Lab glove box: preparation of air sensitive materials.
  • Labconco freeze drier.
  • Organic synthesis; bioconjugation, surface functionization, polymeric hydrogel, supramolecule assembly, and DNA modifications.

 

 

 

Center for Single Molecule Biophysics Tools

For more information on this center please contact Peiming Zhang or Michael Dodson by email, or by telephone at (480) 965-5491.