All instrument

The Nanowizard II – JPK-Bruker is designed for biological samples. It is equipped with a Zeiss fluorescence microscope and it is used for high resolution imaging and nanomechanical characterization.

The Raman Spectrometer XploRA Plus is a compact and fully automated micro-spectrometer using the vibrational Raman spectroscopy and an AFM for combined Raman-AFM and TERS. The operation modes combine confocal Raman, fluorescence and photoluminescesce imaging and spectroscopy, through manipulators and probes.

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Leica TCS SP8 with DMI8 microscope and FCS Picoquant module and with PMT detector for transmission imaging

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Leica TCS SP2 equipped with 3 fluorescence PMT detectors

Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope Leica TCS SP8 equipped with DMI8 microscope, FCS Picoquant module and with PMT detector for transmission imaging and 5 internal detectors.

This is a state of the arte confocal microscope with excitation given by laser lines at 454, 488, 514, 635 nm and equipped wit Hybrid PMT detectors. The system has spectral resolution on the images. In addition the microscope is equipped with a STED superresolution module.

Cryogenic Electron Microscopy in Transmission, model Thermo Scientific™ Glacios™. The instrument is equipped with XFEG optics at 200 keV, cryogenic system of the sample preparation and handling, and software and support tools for the analysis of collected images. The Cryo-TEM is equipped with XFEG optics at 200 keV

Drone equipped with a multi-sensor system in a compact payload for collecting spectral reflectance and surface temperature data useful for different environmental applications. The onboard sensors are represented by a VNIR multispectral camera 9 bands (MAIA S2) a radiometric thermal camera (DJI Zenmuse XT2) integrated with an RGB camera. This system allows to estimate net radiation, apparent thermal inertia of materials, physical parameters of snow, bio-optical water quality parameters, biophysical and structural vegetation parameters and some characteristics of rocks and soils.

DMA Star Systems – Mettler Toledo – allows Dynamic mechanical analysis to measure the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of materials as a function of temperature, time and frequency.

EUROCOLD lab – integrated laboratory with controlled atmosphere for simulate the mean Antarctic environmental conditions. Cold rooms till -50°C at very clean environmental conditions are available.

Based on thermogravimetric analysis combined with FTIR: TGA Perkin Elmer Pyris 1 coupled to a Perkin Elmer Spectrum™ Frontier FTIR spectrometer by a TL 8000 transfer line with a 10 cm gas cell. The transfer line and gas cell can be heated to 300 °C to avoid condensation of organic compounds.

FIB-SEM with simultaneous milling and EBSD. The intrument allows preparation of high-quality ultra-thin TEM lamellae, delayering processes in technology nodes, precise nanopatterning and high-resolution 3D reconstructions.

Nicolet Nexus 870. Instrument for FT-IR spectroscopy and microscopy, model Nicolet Nexus 870, equipped with external optical table, two external detectors (MCT e TRS), GeATR, one Hind photoelastic modulator, and one IR Continuµm microscope.

The FTIR (dimensions 570 x 550 x 250 mm) is endowed with LightDrive Optical Engine components (source, laser, interferometer and detector) and a solid-state, temperature-controlled diode laser that with its enhanced long-lifetime and temperature-stabilized design guarantees accurate and precise data acquisitions.

Development of new methods for optical non-linear microscopy to be applied to biophysics and medical physics in-vivo. Under developing is a two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging microscopy and second harmonic generation microscopy.

Gas Chromatograph with Ion Mobility Spectrometer. FlavourSpec: Sensitive Analyser for Food, Flavour and Beverage testing. The FlavourSpecE comprises advantages of a Gas Chromatograph (GC) with regard to selectivity and outstanding sensitivity of an Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS) enabling the analysis of volatiles in the headspace of liquids and solid samples without any sample pre-treatment.

The spectrometer has a focal length of 800 mm, two grids (1800 and 600 grooves / µm), and a CCD detector (1024×256 px, -60 °C). There is also a 9-position filter system (from 100 to 0.01%) for EDGE and ULF (Ultra Low Frequency). The green Nd laser source (532 nm) has a power of 300 mW. High visualisation is by an Olympus BXFM petrographic microscope for transmitted and reflected light, connected with a 5Mpx camera (objectives: 5X, 10X, LWD 50X, and 100X). The presence of a motorised sample holder stage and the confocal system enables the acquisition of two- and three-dimensional profiles and maps in 2D and 3D at the (sub)µm scale. The system is compatible with a LINKAM THMS600 heating/freezing stage for analysis in the temperature range from 300 to -180°C.

This FDM 3D printer allows realizing large objects and prototypes in a single print. The main features of the machine are: very large build volume (850x850x850 mm), resolution layer Z axis: 100 – 500 µm.

The rapiflex™ MALDI Tissuetyper™ is specifically designed for MS imaging with a spatial resolution of 10-20 µm, so as to obtain information at the single cell level, and with a speed 10 times better than other commercial MS-Imaging tools.

Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid mass spectrometer for the analysis of molecules and supramolecular complexes with ultra-high resolution for proteomics, structural proteomics and other omics sciences. The instrument supports multiple fragmentation modes (CID, HCD, ETD) and their combinations and is coupled with a nano-flow UHPLC EASY-nLC 1000,

For the mixing of thermoplastic polymers, with speed and temperature setting and torque measurement system, suitable for material development, optimization of the production process and lab-scale production of polymer blends and composites.

Machine Shop including milling and turning tool, cutting machine, small drill press, grinder, micro lathe, and a numerically controlled milling machine. It is also equipped with a Buehler grinder/polisher for kit for surfaces polishing.

High-performance gas adsorption analyzer for measuring surface area, pore size, and pore volume of powders and particulate materials, microporous and mesoporous materials. Main specifications: 3 analysis ports with pressure transducer of 1000 mmHg, 10 mmHg and 0.1 mmHg; P0 port with dedicated pressure transducer for continuous monitoring of saturation pressure; Isotherm data collection begins in the 10-6 torr range; ECR (Enhanced Chemical Resistance) treatment of the surfaces; Compatible for analysis with N2, O2, Ar, CO2, CO, H2, butane and with corrosive gases.

The NMR spectrometer is Bruker Avance III 600 MHz NMR, equipped with three probes suitable for the analysis of liquid, solid and heterogeneous samples.

Multicollector mass spectrometer equipped with a Nier source and three collectors: one Faraday collector and two ion counters. It is designed to measure the isotopic compositions of He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe. The applications include 30Ar-40Ar dating of minerals; the noble gas diffusivities of apatite and feldspar, and to study the noble gas and halogen geochemistry of mantle rocks.

The Mastersizer 3000 is used by many companies and research institutes across a wide range of applications. The access particle size range is 10 nm to 3.5 mm.

Advanced double-furnace calorimeter with power compensation.

The QSM is a next-generation scanning probe magnetometer based on diamond technology. The diamond probes employ a single magnetic impurity in the carbon lattice (Nitrogen-vacancy center) as an atomic-size magnetic quantum sensor.

Microscope inViaTM QontorTM model, with excitations at 532 and 785 nm, with motorized XYZ stage, flexible arm and Raman imaging techniquesx

Drone equipped with a multi-sensor system in a compact payload for collecting spectral reflectance and surface temperature data useful for different environmental applications. The onboard sensors are represented by a VNIR multispectral camera 9 bands (MAIA S2) a radiometric thermal camera (DJI Zenmuse XT2) integrated with an RGB camera. This system allows to estimate net radiation, apparent thermal inertia of materials, physical parameters of snow, bio-optical water quality parameters, biophysical and structural vegetation parameters and some characteristics of rocks and soils.

Xenocs XEUSS 3.0 system operates in SAXS (Small Angle X-ray Scattering), USAXS (Ultra SAXS) and GISAXS (Grazing Incidence SAXS) modes. It is equipped for measurements on powders, pastes, gels, liquids and films, temperature control and robot for automation of sample preparation.

Small and Wide Angle X-ray Diffractometer. Samples can be measured at different temperature, humidity, high pressure and under mechanical stress/strain conditions. Special features: – TrueFocus: self-alignment with X-ray beam; – TrueSWAXS: simultaneous SWAXS studies up to 60° 2Ѳ.

Scanning Electron Microscope with field emission source, equipped with SE, BSE and Environmental (GSED) detectors, EDS system (Oxford Inca Energy System 250), heating stage (FEI) and tensile/compression test module (Gatan MST200).

The SUPRA 35 Field Emission SEM provides improved image resolution and a high productivity and versatility.

FEG-SEM with a nominal resolution of 1.2 nm, equipped with an integrated EDS/WDS micro-analytical system and with an EBSD detector for the crystallographic analysis of the sample surface

Scanning electron microscope with field-emission source, equipped with detectoirs for EDS, backscattered and secondary electrons

SEM system with EDS-SPM, Correlative AFM during SEM. The instrument has conventional tungsten filament, equipped with modern electron optics based on a unique four-lens Wide Field OpticsTM column. The SEM is equipped with four types of detectors (EDS, BSE, SE, water vapour detector).

X-ray scattered in the angular range of 0 – 10° detected by CCD or imaging plate, and up to 60° detected by using an imaging plate for the systems coupling SAXS and Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering, WAXS. Samples can be measured at different temperature, humidity, high pressure and under mechanical stress/strain conditions. Special features: – TrueFocus: self-alignment with X-ray beam; – TrueSWAXS: simultaneous SWAXS studies up to 60° 2Ѳ; – StageMaster: YZ stage with auto-recognition of sample stages. Accessible q range 0.03 nm-1 to 40.7 nm^-1, 200 nm > d > 0.15 nm. System resolution qmin: 0.03 nm^-1.

The spectrometer Eclipse, Varian, is a fluorimeter for the measurement of excitation and emission spectra of fluorophores in solutions.

Transmission Electron Microscope with LaB6 source (120 kV) and BF detector and FEI Eagle 4k CCD camera (bottom mounted).

The TEM instrument – ThermoFisher Talos F200X – combines outstanding high-resolution S/TEM and TEM imaging with high performance energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) signal detection and 3D chemical characterization with compositional mapping.

Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) with LaB6 emitter, 80-200 kV accelerating voltage, point-to-point resolution of 0.24 nm, EDS micro-analysis, 9 Mpx CMOS camera.

Rigaku SmartLab SE is an X-ray powder diffractometer for thin film diffraction, SAXS, pole figure, residual stress and non-ambient experiments, and with automatic alignment.

The RIGAKU Nano3DX is a X-ray microscope to measure large samples at high resolution. This is achieved with a high-power rotating anode X-ray source and a high-resolution cMOS-type detector. The instrument allopws CT reconstruction, image processing, 3D visualization and segmentation, quantitative analysis.

Accelerating voltage between 1 kV to 30 kV, nominal resolution of 1.2 nm. In addition to the common “in-camera” BSE and SE detectors, the instrument is equipped with “in-lens” detectors (BSE/SE) for high-resolution imaging and with a STEM detector. The FEG-SEM is also equipped with a Bruker integrated EDS/WDS micro-analytical system, specially designed for light elements. Finally, the FEG-SEM is equipped with an EBSD detector (Bruker) for the crystallographic analysis of the sample surface. The EBSD comes with the Argus FSE and BSE detector for the acquisition of orientational contrast images.