JRC NanoBiotechnology Laboratory

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection
Nanobiosciences Unit
NanoBiotechnology Laboratory
Technical facilities
(October 2014)
Experimental facilities of the Nanobiosciences Unit include:
 Chemistry lab for nanoparticles (NP) synthesis
 Characterisation lab for NP physico-chemical characterisation and sample preparation
 Biology lab for in vitro assay development
 Clean room facilities for electronic microscopy and advanced detection methods
 Special laboratory in controlled area for radio labelled NP synthesis and characterisation.
List of instruments
Biology and Cell Culture Facility
Instrument name
Multiwall plate reader
Flow Cytometer
Colony Counter
Comet Microscope
Electric Cell Impedance Sensing
Producer
PerkinElmer
Partec
Oxford Optronix
Andor Comet
Applied Biophysics
Model
Enspire
CyFLOW space
Producer
JEOL Ltd.
FEI
Model
JEM2100
NOVA600 Dual Beam
WITEC
Nanofilm
Best Scientific
Zeiss
GE Healthcare - Euroclone
Alpha300
EP3
ECIS s ZƟ
Imaging and Microscopy
Instrument name
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
Scanning Electron Microscopy – Focused
Ion Beam (SEM)
Confocal Raman Microscope
Imaging Ellipsometer
EDI-EPIC Fluorescent Microscope
Fluorescent Microscope
Cell Imaging System
Apotome + Axiovert200
Incell2200
Molecular detection
Instrument name
Label free optical Biosensor
Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging
Imaging Nanoplasmonics
Producer
SDK Biotechnologies
Biolin Scientific
Horiba
Plasmore SRL
1
Model
Dynetix BR8
Q-Sense E4
SPRi-PLEX
Impressor 1.0
Micro-Nano Fabrication
Instrument name
Ion Beam Sputtering
DC Magnetron Sputtering
Deposition of thin films of Au, Ag, Cr, Pt
PECVD Plasma polymerization of
PolyEthyleneOxide-like coatings
PECVD Plasma polymerization of
PolyAcrylicAcid coatings
Inductively Coupled- Reactive Ion Etching
RIE with O2, SF6, CF4
Langmuir-Blodgett deposition system
Microspotter
Micro-contact printer
Mask Aligner
Producer
JRC-NBS
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
Model
Univex 350
JRC-NBS
-
JRC-NBS
-
JRC-NBS
-
KSV
Scienion
GESIM
SUSS Microtech
Minitrough
Sci Flexarrayer
µ-CP 3.0
MA
Physico-Chemical characterisation and sample preparation
Instrument name
2 Asymmetric Field-Flow Fractionator
systems
Centrifugal Field Flow Fractionator
System
2 Disk Centrifuge Sedimentation Systems
Zeta Sizer
Nanoparticle Analysis System
Nanoparticle Sizer
Circul Dichroism Spectrometer
UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Fluoresence Spectrometer
Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer
ICP-MS
Electro Kinetic Analyzer
Atomic Force Microscope
Atomic Force Microscope
High resolution gamma-ray spectrometry
Producer
Postnova Analytics
Model
AF2000 AT, AF2000 MT
Postnova Analytics
CF2000
CPS Instruments Inc.
Malvern Instruments Ltd
Malvern Instruments Ltd
IZon
Jasco Corp.
Thermo
Varian
ISS inc.
Agilent Technologies
Antoon Paar
NT-MDT
Agilent Technologies
ORTEC
DC24000UHR
Zetasizer Nano ZS
Nanosight LM20
Q-Nano
J-815
Nicolet Evolution 300
CARY Eclipse
Chronos FD
7700Series
EKA
Solver
AFM5500
High purity HPGe detectors: several
available
Multi-sample automatic gamma counting
Ellipsometer
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer
(FT-IR)
Standard and glancing angle XRD
ToF - SIMS
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
Ultramicrotome
Closed Vessel Microwave Digestion
Automatic Plunge Freezing System
Homogenizer
Custom model (2 available)
J.A. Woollam CO. Inc.
Bruker
Bruker
ION-TOF GmbH
Kratos Analytical Ltd.
LEICA
CEM Corporation
LEICA
GEA Mechanical Equipment
SpA
2
VB-400
Tensor27
Bruker D8 Discover
TOF SIMS IV
AXIS Ultra
Cryo Leica EM VC7
Discover
EM GP
Panda

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