Our Lab
Cheese!
When we mix polyelectrolytes in a salt solution, this is the precipitate that we get: polyelectrolyte complex that looks like white cheese! We can extrude this into many shapes with our lab extruder
Lab Extruder
We use this extruder to process the “cheese” into many shapes such as rods, tubes, tapes.
Extruder At Work
Producing tubes from polyelectrolyte complexes.
Robot for Preparation of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
We use this robot to build polyelectrolyte multilayers. Substrates can be fixed on the side or on the bottom, face down, of two rotating shafts that can be spinned at a custom speed.
Little Dog
This small Fourrier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer is used to characterize polyelectrolyte thin films and complexes.
Big Dog
This bigger FTIR Spectrometer can be used for normal samples as well as for Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR FTIR) measurements.
UV Spectrophotometer
The Ultraviolet visible spectrophotometer is used to characterize polyelectrolyte suspensions and complexes, and for turbidimetry measurements.
Ellipsometer
For quick thickness measurements of thin films.
Stereomicroscope
The dissecting microscope allows imaging of samples with complex surface features.
Vacuum Coater
Plasma Cleaner
Radiocounter
Photomultiplier tube (PMT) inside a black box assembled in-house for scintillation counting of radiolabeled polyelectrolyte films and complexes.
Rheometer
Tensile Strength Tester
Electrochemistry
Rotating Disk Electrode
Spinning disk for zeta potential measurements
This device built in our lab measures zeta potential of surfaces such as polyelectrolyte multilayers.
Biosafety Level 2 Lab
BSL-2 Cabinet
Phase-Contrast Microscope