Facilities
State-of-the-art Equipment for Interdisciplinary Studies in Healthcare and Engineering
Material and Mammalian Cell/Tissue Characterization
HORIBA Xplora Plus Raman Microscope equipped with 437, 532, and 785 nm Lasers. It is equipped to be used for capturing material characterization as well as live mammalian cell spectrum
ADMET MTest Quattro Universal Testing Machine. It is equipped to be used for both compression and tension experiments.
Bruker Multimode 8 Atomic Force Microscope. It is equipped to be used for nanomechanical property characterization of biomaterials and live mammalian cells.
Cell Culture and Bioprinting
SANYO CO2 Cell Culture Incubators. It is equipped to be used with both static and dynamic cell culture experiments with additional support for inducing mechanical modulation for tissue engineering studies.
Biosafety hood for mammalian cell culture (BSL-2).
Biosafety hood (BSL-2) equipped with Biobots (now Alleve 2) 3D Bioprinter. The printer has the capability to be used with dual-head bioprinting and regular thermoset melt extrusion printing.
Polymer synthesis and Scaffolds Fabrication
Fume hood - It is dedicated to polymer functionalization and synthesis with microwave-assisted approach.
LABCONCO 4.5L Lyophilizer - It is for polymer synthesis (after dialysis), scaffold fabrication, porogen leaching.
Fume Hood with Microwave-assisted Polymer Functionalization/Synthesis Setup
LABCONCO 4.5L Lyophilizer
Drug Delivery and Biologics Release Kinetics
JASCO UV-Vis Spectrophotometer for drug and biologic srelease study.
SPECTRAMAX 96-well plate reader equiped with kinetic assay capabilities.
Isotemp incubator for dynamic drug and biologic release study.
Other Supporting Equipment
EMD MILIPORE Ultrapure Type 1 water generator and dispenser
ISOTEMP Water Bath
Eppendorf High-speed Centrifuge
Freezer Mill
BIORAD Western Blot Set-up
PANASONIC (now pHCbi) -80 OC Freezer