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Facilities:

Biomolecular Nano-Structure Laboratory
Lab Director: Professor David Cliffel (615) 343-3937
Lab Contact: Dr. Yibin Zhang yibin.zhang@vanderbilt.edu or (615) 322-5013, 6200 Stevenson Center

Monolayer thin film fabrication, characterization, and analysis

Instruments

DLS - Malvern ZetasizerEllipsometerFTIR with photoelastic modulator
DLS - Malvern ZetasizerPhoto not availableFTIR with photoelastic modulator

The Malvern Nano ZS provides the ability to measure particle size (0.6 nm~6000 nm), zeta potential and molecular weight (1000~2x107 Daltons) of particles or molecules in a liquid medium using light scattering and laser doppler electrophoresis.


The J.A. Woolam M-2000 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer measures the refractive index and thickness of semi-transparent thin films as thin as 0.1 nm up to several microns.


Equipped with PMA 50, the Bruker Tensor 27 FTIR provides the capability of Vibrational Circular or Linear Dichroism (VCD/VLD) measurements and the monolayer Reflectance Absorbance Spectroscopy (RAS).


Materials PrinterNima 611M Film BalanceQuatrz Crystal Microbalance
Materials PrinterNima 611M Film BalanceQuatrz Crystal Microbalance


The NIMA 611M Langmuir film balance allows the analysis, manipulation and monolayer fabrication of amphiphilic molecules or particles.



Thermogravimetric AnalyzerUVO-CleanerVEECO Profilometer
Thermogravimetric AnalyzerUVO-CleanerVEECO Profilometer

Instrument Specialist's TGA-1000 measures weight change as a function of time or temperature profile. It is suitable for evaluation of fillers, bound water, unbound water, antioxidants, and thermal stability.


The UVO cleaner uses a short wavelength UV to excite the contaminant molecules on the surface, which react with atomic oxygen or ozone simultaneously generated, to form simpler, volatile molecules which then desorb from the surface.



 
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