Facilities

We have great support from our machine shop, run by famous Pat Harkins!!

We have the following equipment in the lab (listed below). New instruments are continuously built or purchased. We have full capability for rheological measurement and fabricating of microfluidic devices using soft lithography techniques. Digital video equipment includes a Canon-XL1S digital camcorder, high-resolution still cameras, CCD sets and access to a high-speed digital video camera.

Misc. equipment includes a KSV Tensiometer, Photron high speed camera, Two granualr flow apparatus, access to AFM, SEM, TEM.

Equipment:

Regular, brightfield Leica DM IRB inverted microscope with online frame grabbing and particle tracking software.

Materials characterization area.

AR2000 stress-controlled rheometer by TA instrument

We have the capacity to help you with rheological testing of given samples. Samples we have tested to update include biofluids, polymers, organic samples from local companies and labs at local Universities. Due to limited manpower and expensive maintainence, we charge $150 per sample, starting Oct. 2004. The average time of obtaining results will be 3-4 weeks afer you drop off your sample. For regular users (i.e. those labs on campus), we charge $1500 per year for unlimited access, with requirement of taking 3 hours training session at the beginning.

Microfluidics area

Laser interferometry setup, inside the red curtain

Oven, dessicator, vacuum pump, misc. hand and power tools, and basic lab items