Lab Name, PI, Room

Major Equipment

Biosensors and Bioreactors
Laboratory (MUTHARASAN)
Cat-469, 466

• HP 4192A Impedance Analyzer
• HP 4294A Impedance Analyzer
• SRS 200 QCM interfaced to computer
• Data Recovery 875 Lock In amplifier
• Function generators, pulsers, precision voltmeters
• Spinners and bioreactors (1L to 7L)
• 1L Omni Culture System
• 7L Chemap Fermentor
• CO2 Incubators
• Laminar Flow Hood
• Bausch & Lomb Microscopes
• Olympus (OM-10) Fluorescence Microscope (coupled to a computer imaging and video system
• PTI SS Fluorescence Spectrometer with PMT 750 detector
• Gel apparatus for protein analysis

Fuel Cells and Polymer Membranes Laboratory (ELABD)
Cat-467, 465, 464

Laboratory

1060 sq ft of wet lab space with two six ft fume hoods

Major Equipment

• Scribner 850C integrated PEM fuel cell test station
• Two vacuum ovens, two vacuum pumps, and a convection oven
• Buchi rotovapor, six stir/hot plates, three balances, sonicator, and other wet chemistry accessories
• Diffusion Cell experiment (Circulating Water bath and Liquid micro-Pump) integration to flow-through ATR for detection
• Scribner 850C integrated PEM fuel cell test station (hydrogen and direct methanol) with Fuel Cell software
• Solartron electrochemical impedance spectrometer (EIS) (1260 impedance analyzer, 1287 electrochemical interface, Zplot software) with four custom made electrode cells (open and closed system 4 and 2 electrode cells)
• Tenney environmental chamber with high temperature/humidity control (ranging from 25-200oC and 0-100%RH) – integrated with vapor permeation and EIS
• Dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) (Munters Corp.) with Cahn microbalance
• Nicolet Nexus 6700 FTIR spectrometer equipped with multi and single-bounce ATR attachments (Specac)
• Diffusion cell experiment integrated to flow-through ATR cell for detection (fully jacketed with circulating water bath for temp. control)
• HP 5989B mass spectrometer with HP 5890 gas chromatograph and HP 1090 liquid chromatograph
• Quantachrome multipycnometer
• Three vacuum ovens, two vacuum pumps, and a convection oven
• Buchi rotovapor, six stir/hot plates, three balances (two micro-balances), sonicating bath, and other wet chemistry accessories
  Assess to:
• DSC, TGA, GPC, Electro-Spinning, Heat Press, Plasma reactor, High-Pressure Supercritical Extraction (Chem Eng)
• FEI/Phillips XL30 Field Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (FEESEM) equipped with EDAX Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) system (Materials Eng)
• Spin Coater (Materials Eng)
• NMR (Chemistry)
• TEM, SAXS, and ultra-cryo-microtome (UPenn)
  

Biological Colloids Laboratory
(WRENN)
Cat-470

• Becman Allegra 64R Centrifuge
• Shimadzu 14 A Gas Chromatograph
• Brookhaven 90Plus Particle size Analyzer
• Perkin Elmer Lambda40 Spectrometer
• PTI Spectrofluorometer
• PTI Bench-top pulsed Nitrogen Laser Spectro-fluorometer
• Lexel High Plasma Reactor
• Zeizz Axioskop 2 Plus with Axi Cam

Polymers and Composites
Laboratory (PALMESE)
Cat-471

• Nicolet Nexus 670 FTIR
• Water GPC (RI, UV Detectors)
• Brookfield digital viscometer
• DMA 2980 Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
• Electrospinning station
• Instron 8872
• Perkin Elmer Differential Scanning Calorimeter 7
• SPI supercritical extraction setup
• Brinkmann rotary evaporator
• PMI Mercury pycnometer
• Access to:
  • Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer
  • Scanning Electron Microscope
  • Micro Reflectance FTIR
  • Solatron Impedance Analyzer

Abrams Laboratory (ABRAMS)
Cat-472

• Beowulf Computer Clusters
  • 16-dual AthlonMP 2200 with Dolphin/Wulfkit
  • 16-dual AthlonMP 2200
  • 17-dual AthlonMP 2400
  • 4 quad-Opteron 242 with Infiniband
  • Terabyte RAID server
  • Workstation PCs
• 3 dual Opteron
• 2 dual Athlon MP 2800
• 1 single Pentium

Biomaterials and Drug Delivery
Laboratory (LOWMAN)
Cat-262, 263, 264

• Nicolet Magna 560 FTIR with ATR optics
• Brinkmann temperature controlled centrifuge
• Elisa Plate Reader
• TA Instruments DSC 2010
• Instron 4400 Materials Testing System
• Homogenizer – Kinematica Polytron PT 3100
• Waters Alliance 2690 HPLC with 996 Photodiode Array Detector
• 2 Distek 2100B automated baths
• 2 Laminar flow hoods
• 6 incubator baths
• precision balances

Coating and Drying Technology
Laboratory (CAIRNCROSS)
Cat-265

• High Airflow Drying Experimental Setup
• Flexible Tube Flow Experiment
• Extrusion Visualization
• TGA

Process Systems Engineering
Laboratory (SOROUSH)

• Pilot-scale setup  for systems engineering studies
• Interacting liquid level tanks
• Desktop PCs and MACs
  Access to:
• 2-liter RC1 Calorimeter @ DuPont Marshall Laboratory, Philadelphia

Other facilities:
Cat-462 90 sf of cold room maintain at 6.5 C
Cat-463 90 sf of hot room maintain at 37 C