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Browse through the various unique equipments belonging to the CNIE
The EPSRC “Frontier Engineering” Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering, CNIE, contains a wide range of equipment including state-of-the-art SAXS/WAXS, Mercury Porosimeter, Gas Sorption Analyser (BET), Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) and thermal gravimetric analysis with mass spectrometry (TGA-MS). It is located on the second floor and the upper basement of the Roberts Building, Chemical Engineering Department, UCL, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE.
Our facilities include indispensable tools for new materials synthesis and design, characterisation, process development and manufacturing. These facilities have been supported by EPSRC, the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, and collaborations with equipment manufacturers, including Quantachrome, SAXSLAB, Perkin Elmer, and Lesker. The CNIE collaborates widely with research groups within and outside of UCL and we always welcome new ideas and collaborations from industrial users.
Equipment
- Scattering and Imaging Analyses
- 3D Nanoprinting
Photonic Professional 3D Printer (Nanoscribe)
The Nanoscribe Photonic Professional 3D Printer is an important tool for the fabrication of 2D and 3D structures on millimeter, micron and sub-micron scales. Unlike conventional 3D printing, the Nanoscribe 3D printer fabricates structures via "direct laser writing", which utilises the concept of "two-photon polymerisation" for printing of high-resolution 3D objects with high quality surface finish.
The Nanoscribe 3D printer located in UCL Chemical Engineering offers a flexible approach towards fabrication of high resolution structures. Specialised objective lenses, photo-polymerisable resins and sample holders allow for printing of structures from micron and sub-micron scale to as large as multiple centimetres in size. Structures may be printed on silicon or glass, and can be removed from the underlying substrate if required. Nanoscribe's bespoke software enables user-friendly processing of CAD-based designs for generation of high-quality structures to the desired specification.
Structures generated from the Nanoscribe 3D printer have been employed for fabrication of micro-optics, quantum dots, photonic-integrated circuits, biological scaffolds, nanolattices, micro-lenses and micro-robotics.
- Thermal Analyses
- Surface Area, Density and Porosity Analyses
- Other Analytical Intruments
- Cary 4000 Uv-Vis (Agilent)
- Vertex 70 ATR-FTIR Spectrometer (Bruker)
- Synergy H1 plate reader (BioTek)
- GC 2014 Gas Chromatograph (Shimadzu)
- Edge pH/Conductivity Meter (Hanna Instruments)
- Orion Star™ A215 pH/Conductivity Meter (Thermo Fisher)
- TGA/DSC 3+ (Mettler Toledo)
- Pulsar TPR/TPD ChemBET (Anton Paar)
- BID GC2010 (Shimadzu)
Access
We welcome enquiries about our equipment and how we can work with internal and external researchers.
- Academia
If you are interested in using our equipment please contact the Research Laboratories Manager, Dr Han Wu, to discuss your requirements and current rates.
Payment can be arranged via IDT for internal payments. Once the IDT numbers/PO/Payments are received, users can take/send their samples to the sample submission and collection point:
Lab 224, Roberts Building
Department of Chemical Engineering
University College London
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom- Industry
If you are interested in using our equipment please contact the Research Laboratories Manager, Dr Han Wu, to discuss your requirements and to request a quote.
Payment can be arranged via credit card or purchase order for external organisations. Once the PO/Payments are received, users can take/send their samples to the sample submission and collection point:
Lab 224, Roberts Building
Department of Chemical Engineering
University College London
Torrington Place
London WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom