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Force Microscopes: The
department currently maintains three AFMs, at least one of which
is open for general use to approved users within the university.
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Asylum Research MFP-3D [info]
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Contact: Tim
Senden or Drew Evans |
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Digital Instruments/Veeco - Multimode
with Nanoscope IIIa [booking] |
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Digital Instruments/Veeco - Multimode
with Nanoscope III: This instrument has been outfitted with
custom hardware designed for measurement of nanorheology and surfaces
forces using colloidal probes |
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Contact
(for both DI/Veeco instruments): Vince Craig |
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Beaglehole
Imaging Ellipsometer
[ info] |
Versatile instrument
allowing for thickness determinations at a single point or over
a large surface. The ellipsometer can also be used to monitory
thickness dynamically, as when adsorbing material from solution.
Thi instrument also has the ability to serve as a Brewster Angle
Microscope. |
Contact:
Chiara Neto |
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Langmuir
Troughs
: The Langmuir-Blodgett
technique enables the production of highly organised organic
monolayers on a large variety of substrates. The department's
three troughs can be used in a variety of configurations, including
in-situ ellipsometry experiments.
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KSV System 2000-3 alternate layer Langmuir-Blodgett trough [info]
[manual]
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Nima miniature Langmuir trough w/quartz window [info]
[support] |
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Joyce-Loebl Langmuir-Blodgett trough [manual] |
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Contact (for all): Shaun Howard |
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Video camera based
and fully computer controlled Goniometer for the measurement
of static or dynamic (advancing/receding) contact angles (DCA).
Furthermore, surface & interfacial tension (SFT & IFT)
measurements can be performed using the pendant drop or raising
drop technique. |
Contact:
Chiara Neto |
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Laurell
WS-400B-6NPP-Lite spin coater
[ info]
[ manual] |
Contact:
Chiara Neto |
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KSV
QCM-Z500 Quartz Crystal Microbalance
[ info]
[ manual] [booking]
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Narishige
MWO-202 3D Hydraulic Coarse/Fine Micromanipulator
[ info] |
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Surface
Forces Apparatus (SFA) [ more
info] (designed
and built in-house) |
The SFA allows the
forces between two surfaces in vapour or liquid to be measured
with a sensitivity of a few millidynes ( l0 nN) and a distance
resolution of about 1 Å (0.1 nm). It can also be used
to measure the refractive index of the medium between surfaces
and to study adsorption from liquids, capillary condensation,
viscosity in thin films, and surface deformations caused by
surface forces.
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Contact:
Anthony Hyde |
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Small-angle
X-ray Scattering Apparatus |
Applications / Capabilities: Study of mesostructured complex
fluids and colloids between 10 and 300 Angstroms. Special Features:
Guinier/Luzzati optics, film detector. |
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Water
Plasma reactor
(designed and built in-house) |
Permits the passive
cleaning of adventitious carbon from inorganic surface, rendering
them reproducibly clean with a high degree of surface hydroxylation.
Has a vacuum transference chamber for post cleaning reaction
with reactive vapours, ie. silanes.
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Ultra-pure CO2 is
forced at cylinder pressures through a sub-mm hole. High velocity
particulate CO2 is then used to remove debris or contamination
from a surface to be cleaned. A stream of clean N2 is used to
remove solid CO2.
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Contact:
Shannon Notley |
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Microfocus (5 micron)
X-ray source; very high resolution digital camera; custom reconstruction
software; materials modelling software for elastic, conductive
and porous materials; in-situ materials testing for fluid flow
for time resolved tomography. |
Contact:
Mark Knackstedt |
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