Material (Physical and Biological) Characterization Facility

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  • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) equipped with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS)
  • Critical point dryer and sputtering chamber for biological samples
  • Exclusion Chromatography Separation and Tunable Resistive Pulse particle analyzer ideal for characterizing micro- and nano- particles such as exosomes
  • Platelet Aggregometer
  • Polarization microscope equipped with thermal chamber for hot stage microscopy and software modules for particle size analysis
  • Stent/Graft tester for accelerated mechanical testing of stents and other implantable intravascular devices
  • Particle Image Velocimetry System for experimental fluid dynamic studies in cardiovascular models
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  • Quanta 200 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) equipped with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
  • Critical point dryer and sputtering chamber for biological samples
  • Exclusion Chromatography Separation and Tunable Resistive Pulse particle analyzer [SEC (qEV)+TRPS (qNano)] ideal for characterizing micro- and nano- particles such as exosomes
  • Polarization microscope equipped with thermal chamber for hot stage microscopy and software modules for particle size analysis
  • The lab has also access to a Nanoindender and an Atomic Force Microscope

A part of the lab is dedicated to a Bose®ElectroForce®9110 Stent/Graft for accelerated mechanical testing of stents and other implantable intravascular devices. The lab also features a stereoscopic INSIGHT 3G™ PIV, Particle Image Velocimetry System for experimental fluid dynamic studies in cardiovascular models.

Computational simulation studies are performed on a computer cluster managed by EXA-HPC which features 2 Intel quad core Xeon chips, 8 management cores, 64 computational cores. Each core has 2 GB of RAM and a 9TB storage array is available. The system runs on a ROCKS distribution of Linux operating system.

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