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Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM)

Make: FEI

Model: Apreo LoVac

Applications:

• Topographical morphology & Microstructural analysis of materials including biological cell.

• Particle size measurement of nanomaterials.

• Chemical composition analysis of materials with EDS detector.

Raman Spectrometer- Atomic Force Microscope

Make: Horiba/AIST-NT

Model: LabRam HR Evolution, Omega Scope

Applications:

Raman:

• Phase identification of polymorphic solids.

• Polymer identification, Composition determination.

• Determination of residual strain and crystallographic orientation.

AFM:

• Surface morphology at atomic scale.

• Roughness and grain size measurement of thin films

Fully Spectral Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (FSCLSM)

Make: Carl Zeiss

Model: LSM 880

Applications:

• Multi-colour, live/fixed cell and DIC imaging.

• Z- stacks, 3D image reconstruction, Tile scan.

• Time series (with or without Z-stack), Co-localization analysis, bleaching, Airyscan, FCS.

• Topography analysis, surface roughness and Zheight profiling.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)

Make: Bruker

Model: AV NEO (400MHz)

Applications:

• Analysis of 1D NMR: Proton (1H), Carbon (13C), Fluorine (19F), Phosphorus (31P).

• Analysis of 2D NMR: COSY, NOESY, HMBC, HSQC.

3D Bioprinter

Make: ATGC India

Model: INCREDIBLE+

Applications:

• Tissue engineering: fabrication of complex tissues and organs.

• Drug development/screening.

• Toxicology Screening

• Toxicology Screening

Gas Chromatography

Make: Shimadzu

Model: GC-2014

Applications:

• Gas chromatography is vital to the food industry for ensuring the safety of food products.

• Manufacturing relies on gas chromatography for quality control.

• Gas chromatography is fundamental to many research areas.

• For many years gas chromatography has been used in forensic science.

• Measuring air pollution.

High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

Make: Thermofisher

Model: Ultimate-3000

Applications:

• One of the most common uses of HPLC is in the manufacturing process of pharmaceutical products. HPLC is a reliable and precise way to check product purity.

• HPLC is also used for the detection of drug traces in urine.

• HPLC also lends itself to the analysis of nutrients in blood and other medical samples.

• HPLC is often used to analyse biological samples from people with existing diagnoses.

• HPLC can also be used to identify and quantify pesticides along with preservatives and artificial flavourings and colorants.

Benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)

Make: Inkarp

Model: 60 Prop

Applications:

• It is used by chemists and biochemists to identify the properties of organic molecules.

• It is used to analyse mixtures containing known compounds.

• It is used to determine the molecular structure of different compounds

• It is used to check the clarity and purity of given samples.

• It is used in the study of various drugs.

• It is used in food science.

High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC/MS)-Camag

Make: Camag

Model:

Applications:

• Used in quality control and identifying content uniformity in pharmaceutical industry

• Natural product identification

• Drug screening and metabolic studies

• Stability testing can be performed

• Identification of additives

• Environmental impurities can be studied

• Fingerprint analysis can be carried out.

Benchtop Powder XRD (X-Ray Diffraction)

Make: Bruker

Model: D2 Phaser

Applications:

• Characterization of crystalline materials.

• Identification of fine-grained minerals such as clays and mixed layer clays that are difficult to determine optically.

• Determination of unit cell dimensions.

• Measurement of sample purity