Only trained users are allowed access to the instruments within the MCL. Training is performed on an as needed basis either individually or in small groups. Reservations for most instruments are made on the Quartzy server. To schedule training, contact Joel Gillespie at jrg68@pitt.edu or 4-0312.
Surface and Thin Film Analysis Thermo Fisher ESCALAB 250 Xi (to be installed November 2013)
VG SIMSLAB IV Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer/Secondary Neutral Mass Spectrometer (to be installed December 2013)
Multi-technique surface analysis instrument
Asylum MFP-3D Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Veeco Dimension 3100/IIIA Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Optical Microscopy and Imaging
Olypmus BXI Fluorescence Microscope
Olympus BHS Microscope
Motic Stereozoom Microscope
Mettler FC90/900 optical DTA/DSC Stage
Chemical and Structural Analysis
Varian Cary 5000 UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer
Thermo Evolution 600 UV-vis- spectrophotometer
Thermo Nicolet Avatar Fourier Transform Infred Spectrophotometer (FTIR)
Perkin Elmer 241 Spectropolarimeter
Lake Shore Cryotronics 7300 Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM)
Olis Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometer (CD- in the laboratory of Prof. Horne)
Perkin Elmer 2400 CHNOS Analyzer Polymer and Colloid Characterization, Physical and Mechanical Property Analysis
Waters Gel Permeation Chromatograph (GPC)
KSV Sigma 700 force tensionmeter
KSV Sigma 7000 Langmuir-Blodgett trough
VCA 2000 video contact angle goniometer
Wyatt Dawn EOS multi-angle light scattering spectrometer (MALS)
Brookhaven 90+ quasi-elastic light scattering spectrometer (DLS)
Perkin Elmer Pyris 6 Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
Vapor Pressure Osmometer (VPO)
Thermogravametric Analyzer (TGA)
Separation Science
Waters 600 series High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
Waters Delta Prep High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
Consenxus Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionator (AF4)
Sample Preparation
High temperature muffle furnace
Novascan UV/ozone cleaner
Mettler analytical balance
Mettler pH/ISE meter
Microfluidics M-110L microfluidizer
Branson Ultrasonic Bath
Neslab cryobath
Perkin Elmer ultramicro balance
Shared Biological Instrumentation Cluster
BioRad XR+ gel documentation system
Labconco Freezone 6 lyophilizer
Consolidated Stills and Sterilizers 240L autoclave
Brinkmann/Tuttnauer 3870E autoclave
New Brunswick Innova 4000 Shaking incubator
Lab-Line 3525 Shaking incubator