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Centre for Integrated Materials, Processes & Structures facilities and equipment

We have a wide range of equipment to measure the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of materials. To access the equipment contact t.duren@bath.ac.uk.

We have invested in the latest laboratory infrastructure to support our research. Our equipment and facilities are available for academic and commercial use.

Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing & 3D Scanning

  • Dimatix
  • FDM makerbot
  • 3DS HD3500Max
  • Stratasys F270
  • PP3DP
  • Anycubic I3 Mega
  • Digital Light Processing (DLP) 3D printer [Titan 3, microSLA]
  • Extrusion 3D Printer [Lutum 5, VormVrij]
  • Digital Light Processing (DLP) unit
  • 3D Scanner [Matter & Form]
  • Additive manufacture for polymers and metals

Mass Spectrometry & Chromatography

  • Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) Multi-Detection System (GPC/SEC MDS) [Agilent 1260 Infinity]
  • GPC [PL-GPC 50]
  • Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization Tim of Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometer [Bruker Autoflex Speed]
  • Headspace gas mass spectrometer (headspace gas MS)
  • μHPLC coupled to Electrospray Time-of-Flight Mass Spectromet (ESI-TOF) [Ultimate 300]
  • 2D GC/MS [Agilent 7200 Accurate-Mass QTOF]
  • Ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) equipped with UV detector and DReam instruments [Acquity Xevo TQD, ]
  • Electrospray ionisation quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry for high-performance liquid chromatography (ESI-QTOF HPLC) [Bruker MicroTOFQ Ultimate 3000]
  • Walk-up Liquid Chromatography Electrospray quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (LC-ESI-QTOF MS)
  • MaXis-QTOF
  • High performance liquid chromatography evaporative light scattering detector (HPLC-ELSD) [Agilent 1260 Infinity]
  • TD-mCTE
  • Gas Chromatography [Shimadzu]
  • Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS) [Agilent 1260 Infinity ii Quaternary Pump with ESI MS]
  • HPLC DAD/RI (x2)
  • Ion Chromatography
  • Bespoke-Gas GC, GC1, GC2, GC3
  • UHPLC Maxis QTOF MS coupled to an ultra high-pressure Liquid Chromatography system
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) with Thermal desorption
  • Nano Liquid Chromatography coupled to Electrospray quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (nanoLC-ESI-QTOF MS)
  • High Pressure Gas Absorption Apparatus
  • High Performance Adsorption Analyzer [Micrometrics 3FLEX 3500]
  • Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
  • Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC)

Materials Processing

Thermal & Polymer Characterisation

  • Bomb calorimeter [IKA C1]
  • Microcalorimeter
  • Thermalc conductivity measurement [TPS 3500 Hot Disk Regular, FOX600]
  • Thermal Imaging Cameras [FLIR T620]
  • Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) [SETARAM Calvet 3D μSc]
  • Gas sorption [ASAP 2020, Micromeritics 3 Flex, & Autosorb-iQ]
  • High-pressure volumetric gas sorption [HTP-1]
  • Hydrogen isotope exchange
  • Thermal Analyser [STA 441 F1 Jupiter Simultaneous]
  • Intelligent gravimetric analyzer
  • Isothermal calorimetry
  • Indirect calorimeter [GEM]
  • Total Organic Carbon (TOC) & Total Nitrogen (TN) analyser
  • Mercury intrusion [Pascal 140 & 440 Series]
  • Dilatometer [Netzsch DIL 402C]
  • Porolux 1000
  • Nanoparticle analyser [Nanosight NS500]
  • shaker systems for energy harvesting characterisation
  • DMA [Triton 2000 & Mettler-Toledo DMA-1]
  • Vapour sorption [DVS advantage 1]

Vacuum

  • Vacuum Helium Leak Detector (UL 200, Inficon)
  • Various vacuum chambers capable of achieveing base pressures of 10-9 mbar to atompsheric pressure

Lithography

  • Direct Laser Write (DLW) [Heidelberg MPG101]
  • NanoImprint Lithography [EVG 620]
  • Mask Aligner [mutliple Karl Suss MJB-3]
  • Electron Beam Lithography (EBL)/SEM [Raith Elphy Plus]
  • Displacement Talbot Lithography (DTL) [Phable 100M]

Coating, Etching & Material Growth

  • Sputter Coaters [Edwards S150B, HHV500]
  • Thermal Evaporators [Edwards E306, Moorfield Minilab]
  • Electron beam Evaporators [Edwards FL400, Moorfield Minilab,]
  • Thin Film Deposition System [AUTO 500]
  • Photoresist spinners (various)
  • Dry photoresist laminator
  • Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PE-CVD) reactors [Aixtron Black Magic x2, Oxford Instruments, Plasma Therm 790]
  • Metal Organic CVD (MOCVD) reactor (x2) [Oxford Instruments]
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Reactive Ion Etchers (RIE) [ICP80, ICP100, Plasmapro System 100 Cobra, Leica EM RES 102, Diener]
  • ceramics processing and freeze casting
  • A comprehensive range of tube and chamber furnaces capable of heating to 1700° C Automated Flexible Electronics Measurement System (Precision Atomics)
  • A wide range of stirring hotplates
  • Filmetrics reflectrometry system
  • Plasma Treatment / etcher [Diener Zepto]
  • Caster [Elcometer 4340]
  • Hollor fiber spinneret
  • Anodic alumina membrane synthesis
  • Tube Vacuum Furnance [Carbolite, Red Devil G]
  • Alumina Tube Furnace
  • Vacuum ovens
  • Binder ovens
  • Muffle furnace [Gallenkamp]
  • Spincoaters [Laurell WS-650MZ-23 NPP, Headway & others]
  • Dessicator units [various]
  • Freeze driers [various]
  • Vacuum Ovens [various]
  • Ultrasonicator (GT Sonic, 100W)
  • Numerous analytical micorbalance
  • Nanofilm vacuum filtrater
  • Nanofilm inkjet printer
  • Nanofilm spray coater
  • Centrifuges [various, Hettich, Thermoscientific Megafuge16, Eppendorf]
  • Fume hood [various, Esco Ascent]
  • Optical Fibre Drawing Tower
  • Integrating Sphere

Membranes

Performance Testing

  • Pervaporation rig
  • Liquid permeation test for ceramic membrane
  • Dead-end & crossflow cell

Surface Testing

  • Conductivity Meter [Jandel RM3000]
  • Impedance analyser [Solatron S1 1260]
  • Impedance spectroscopy (with temperature)
  • Dielectric interface [Solatron 1296]
  • Potentiometer/galvanometer [metrohm AUTOLAB]
  • Contact angle goniometry [OCA15 & OCA25]
  • Porometer [Porolux 1000, Pascal 140 Mercury]
  • High-performance adsorption analyser [3Flex+ 1MP Analyser with flow degasser]
  • Physisorption Analyser (BET) [3Flex]

Microscopy

Electron Microscopy

  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) [JEOL JSM 6301F, FE-SEM7900F, Hitachi S4300]
  • Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) [JEOL 1200 EX & TEM 2100+]
  • TEM equipped with Energy Dispersive X-Ray analyser (EDX) (JEOL JSM-2100PLUS)
  • SEM equipped EDX [JEOL JSM-6480LV & Hitachi]
  • EM and cryo-EM preparation system (Leica EM TXP)

Scanning Probe & Atomic Force Microscopy

  • Atomic force microscopes (AFM) [Veeco multimode nanoscope III, Asylum Jupiter XR with various mode additions]
  • Non-contact surface profilometer [Proscan 2000, Veeco 6M Dektak]
  • Nanoindenter [Anton Paar, NHT3]
  • Presion motion controller [Thror Lab]
  • Nanodrives [Madcity lab]

Optical Microscopy

  • Non inverted microscopy [Microeconomique]
  • 3D optical microscope [Keyence, VHX]
  • Inverted fluorescence-equipped microscope [Nikon]
  • Optical micrscopes [Leica M205C]
  • Widefield Fluorescent Microscope [Leica Dmi8]
  • Multiphoton Confocal Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscope [Zeiss LSM880]
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope Zeiss LSM-880 with Airyscan and multiphoton laser
  • Light Sheet Microscope [Zeiss Z.1]
  • Upright fluorescence-equipped microscope [Olympus]
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscope [Zeiss CellDiscoverer 7 with LSM900 Multiplex Airyscan]
  • Two-Photon Time Domain Fluorescence Lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)
  • High-throughput automated multiple frequency domain Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
  • Inverted microscope [EVOS M5000]

Non-Destructive Testing

  • X-ray computed tomography system (CT) [Nikon]
  • Peripheral quantitative computed tomograph [pQCT XCT 3000]
  • Ultrasonic phased array system with National Instrument software/hardware
  • High-performance cooled InSb detector [Flir Systems]
  • Uncooled IR detector based on microbolometer technology
  • Polytec 2D laser vibrometer
  • Non-linear ultrasonics
  • Ultrasonic C scanning
  • Thermography
  • Thermal wave imaging thermoscope
  • Ultrasonic sciences C-scan system (2.5 x 1.2m scan area)

Spectroscopy

  • Raman Spectrometer [REINSHAW inVia, iRaman BTC161E]
  • NMW Spectrometer [AVANCE III 400 & AVANCE III 500]
  • UV-Vis Spectrometer [Numerous Cary 100 UV-Vis, DReam equipped, Andor, Shimadzu UV 1800, Jenway Nanodrop] -SPR Spectrometer [Reichert]
  • General use Spectrometer [Ocean Optics]
  • FT-IR Spectrometer [Perkin Elmer Frontier, Bruker FT-IR Spectrometer INVENIO]
  • Optical Spectrum Analyser [Agilent, Ando]
  • Residual Gas Analyser (rRGA) [Stanford Research]
  • TGA [SETARAM SETSYS Evolution]
  • TOC analyzer [shimadzu TOC-VCPN]
  • MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer
  • Spectral Flow Cytometer
  • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer/Microscope (FTIR) -Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer [Advance 300, Advance III 400, Advance III 500, Advance III HD 500, Avance NEO 400 (x2), Avance NEO 500, Propulse 500]

Structures Characterisation

  • 10 kN [Instron E10000]
  • 50kN testing machine [Instron 3369, TriScan Pro Advanced]
  • 100kN testing machine [Instron 1195, Multi-Axis 8800]
  • 100 kN hydraulic actuator
  • 200 kN Mayes machine [Retrofitted 8800 Control Tower]
  • 250kN testing machine [Instron 5585H]
  • 2000 kN Frame [Retrofitted 8800 Controller]
  • Force Plates [Kistler portable 9260AA6]
  • Servohydraulic fatigue testing stystem [Instron 8803]
  • Isokinetic dynamometer [Humac Norm]
  • Fluid Dynamic Gauging (FDG)
  • CT load cell [Deben, CT5000]
  • Screw Extruder [Process 11 Twin]
  • KIPP Pyranometer
  • IR and rain exposure systems
  • Environmental cabinet [Instron 3111]
  • Digital image correlation/ doppler laser vibrometry
  • Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (DMA)
  • Limess VIC3D high-speed digital image correlation system
  • Motion Tracker System [XSENS Wireless, Qualisys, Near-infrared Camera equipped]
  • GPS Ionospheric Scintillation
  • 3 x 1.5m Airbus autoclave for composites (100psi; 250°C)
  • Bertec split belt force instrumented treadmill
  • Armfield open channel research flume

X-ray Diffractometry

  • Single Crystal Xray Diffraction (XRD) [Agilent Technologies Xcalibur]
  • Single Crystal XRD [Agilent Technologies Supernova Dual]
  • Transmission and Reflection Powder XRD (PXRD) [Bruker D8-Advance and a STOE STADI P]
  • Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) [Anton-Paar SAXSpoint 2.0]

Computing & Software

  • Structural modelling software [ABAQUS / VICONOPT / ANSYS]
  • Electronic circuit design software [Cadence suite]
  • Material Simulation software [COMSOL Multiphysics]
  • Data processing software [Matlab, Maple]
  • Mechanical design software [AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Fusion, Sketchup, Solidworks]
  • Analytical and quantitative research software [ChemOffice, SPSS, Spectragryph, Nvivo, CCDC]
  • Digital twinning software [ARENA]
  • VSimulators [Bi-Axial Motion, Climate Controlled Room, Virtual Reality Equipment]
  • Balena, Anatra (cluster), Isambard and Nimbus (Cloud) High Performance Computing (HPC) System

Particle & Powder Characterisation

  • Nanoparticle characterisation [Nanosight NS300]
  • Zeta Potential, Particle Size, Concentration characterisation [Zetasizer & DLS Mastersizer 3000, Nanosizer & Malvern lasersizer]
  • Pycnometer [AccuPyc 1330]

Electrical Charcaterisation

  • Wedge bonder [K & S]
  • Conductivity Meter [Jandel, Various]
  • Probe station [Karl Suss]
  • Semiconductor Device Analyser [Agilent B1500 A]
  • Vector Network Anlyser
  • Potentiostat [Autolab FRA32M]
  • 30K Dry Cryostat for HTS Magnet Testing
  • Custom-built 3 kV and 5 kV Source Measure Units
  • 5 kV High Voltage High Frequency Switch [Behlke HTS 61-03-GSM]
  • Four point probe [Jandel]
  • Low Voltage Source Measure Unit [Keithley 2611, Keithley 2602B]
  • Hight Current Source Measure Units [Keithley 238]
  • Digital Oscilloscope [Agilent DSO5032A]
  • Induction Coil Magnetometers
  • 80MHz Arbitrary Waveform Generator [Agilent 33250A]
  • Digial Multimeters [HP 34410A]
  • Spectrum Analyser [FSW13]
  • High Voltage Source Measure Units [Keithley 237]
  • Auto-Ranging PicoAmmeters [Keithley 485]
  • Superconducting Motor Test Cryostat
  • Liqui Nitrogen Cryostate [Various]

Rheology

  • Rheometer [Brookfield DV III Ultra]
  • Hybrid Rheometer [HR-2 Discovery]

Bio-Imaging & Biotech

  • Microplate readers [BMG Labtech CLARIOstar, Phosphorimager Plus Plates]
  • Flourescene microscopes [Dmi8 Microscope, LSM-880, Z.1 Lightsheet, FACS Aria, FACS Canto, CLARIO star]
  • Microtomes [various]
  • Autolan
  • Millipore Ultrapure (Type1) water -(Direct-Q 5UV)
  • Auto Clave [MDS Medical Lts]
  • Syringe pumps [Various]
  • Bio Analyser [Cedex]
  • Multifunction Process Control Teaching System and Bath Enzyme Reactor
  • PalmSens4
  • Flow Cytometers [FACS Aria, FACS Canto]
  • Biosensors [MP160]
  • Clinical chemistry analyser [RX4041 RXDaytona+ Analyser]
  • Hypoxic cabinet
  • Protein purification [AKTA Go]
  • Fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) [AKTA]
  • Biological Safety Cabinet [MSC Advantage Class II]
  • Electrochemiluminescently-labeled detection [Meso Quickplex SQ 120]
  • Incubators [various]
  • Metabolic Cart [CareFusion Vyntus]
  • ASA-LAB EEG System
  • Flow Cytometer [Guava EasyCyte 6-2L System]
  • Flow Reactor
  • Bone denseometer [Hologic DEXA Scanner]
  • Treadmill [HP Cosmos]
  • Climate Chambers [DY110]
  • Controlled Temperature Room
  • Hypoxic cabinet equipped with epi-fluorescent microscope Leica Dmi8
  • Hypoxic workstation Baker [Ruskinn Sci-tive Duo]
  • InCell Analyser Plate Reader with High Content Microscope [InCell Analyser]
  • Eye tracker [Eyelink 1000]
  • EEG actiCHamp Plus 64 System with actiCAP
  • Fermentation Systems [Labscale]
  • Large Environmental Chamber

Prototyping

  • Laser Cutting Machine [Epiglog Fusion M2 60 Watt]
  • A1 Laser Cutter
  • Abraisive saw [Buehler discutom]
  • Diamond Wire Saw
  • Precision Composite Plate Saw [Compcut 500]
  • Wafer Lapping/Polishing Machine [15VS Variable Speed]