Available Research Services and Equipment
Please contact the indicated faculty for more information.
Equipment – In alpha order – Some equipment have multiple experts that you can call upon.
- Atomic force microscopy (AFM) – Debra Auguste, Steve Lustig
- Battery cycler, 64 Channel – Joshua Gallaway
- Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer, 6 detectors, 2 lasers – Rebecca Willits
- BET surface area and pore size measurement – Ming Su
- Biomechanics devices and systems – Eno Ebong
- Confocal Imaging with a Raman Microscope and electrochemical capability – Joshua Gallaway
- Differential scanning calorimeter – Ming Su
- Dynamic Light Scattering – Ming Su
- Infrared Spectroscopy – Steve Lustig
- Glovebox (Argon environment) – Joshua Gallaway, Allison Dennis
- ProteinSimple Jess protein analyzer – Rebecca Willits
- Potentiostat – Joshua Gallaway
- TA Instruments ARES-G2 instrument with in-situ Raman Scattering – Steve Lustig
- TA Instruments Electroforce 3200 – Ryan Koppes
- Thermogravity analyzer – Ming Su
- UV-vis and fluorescence measurements – Sara Hashmi, Ming Su
- Viscosity determination by capillary viscometer for small-volume sample measurements (min ~10 μl) – Sara Hashmi
- X-ray micro CT and X-ray sources and detectors – Ming Su
- Zeiss Axio Observer 7, LED fluorescent imaging, with motorized scanning stage, incubation, and Apotome – Rebecca Willits
Research Services – In alpha order
- Battery & fuel cell assessment:
- Testing at synchrotron facilities such as APS and NSLS-II – Joshua Gallaway
- Fabrication and characterization of electrochemical systems – Joshua Gallaway
- Biochemical & biopharmaceutical assessment:
- Heterologous protein expression and purification (aerobic and anaerobic) – Benjamin Woolston
- High-resolution LCMS – Benjamin Woolston
- Biomaterials in vitro and in vivo assessment
- Cellular migration – 2D or 3D – Rebecca Willits
- Histology and pathology services – Eno Ebong
- Hypoxic, normoxic, and hyperoxic cell culture in 2D and 3D – Sidi Bencherif, Rebecca Willits
- In vitro cytocompatibility studies (cell metabolic activity, live/dead assay, immunogenicity, etc) – Sidi Bencherif, Abby Koppes, Rebecca Willits
- Protein expression – Rebecca Willits
- Gene expression – Sidi Bencherif, Rebecca Willits
- Drug Delivery Research – Rebecca Carrier
- Study and develop algorithms to predict the impact of lipids and food on drug absorption.
- Study transport (particles, microbes, drug carriers, molecules) across mucus layers, employing particle tracking techniques and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP).
- Develop advanced “gut on a chip” models.
- Study cell behaviors (3d cell migration in hydrogels, survival, differentiation) related to retinal regeneration in response to different biomaterial environments.
- Computational Modeling
- Kinetic modeling, chemical kinetics, computational chemistry (including heterogeneous catalysis, reactor modeling, pathway analysis) Richard West
- Machine Learning and AI, especially for molecular property and reaction prediction – Richard West
- Molecular modeling of mixtures and interfacial systems, and process simulation of chemical processes – Francisco Hung
- Materials fabrication and characterization:
- Biomechanics Studies – Eno Ebong
- Cryogel synthesis – Sidi Bencherif
- Ethylene Oxide sterilization – Rebecca Willits
- Hydrogel synthesis – Sidi Bencherif, Rebecca Willits
- Particle suspension analysis – Sara Hashmi
- Polymer molecular weight and distribution analysis using HPLC/SEC/GPC – Steve Lustig
- Rheology, tensile, and compressive materials characterization – Steve Lustig, Ryan Koppes, Rebecca Willits