Equipment & Facilities

X-ray Diffractometer (XRD), with non-ambient capability – Bruker D8 Advance
Particle Size Analyser (Laser Diffraction) – Malvern Instruments Mastersizer 2000 (Liquid & Powder Units)
Particle Size Analyser (Dynamic Light Scattering) – Microtrac, Nanotrac Wave II
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) – NETZSCH DSC214 polyma & TA Instruments Q2000
Thermal Gravimetric Analyser (TGA) – TA Instruments Q50
Surface Tension & Contact Angle Measurement System – Krüss G10
Texture Analyser – Stable Micro Systems, TA.XTplus
Dynamic Vapour Sorption (DVS) – Surface Measurement Systems, DVS Intrinsic
Powder Rheometer – Freeman Technology FT4
Fluid Rheometer – TA Instruments ARG2

LC/MS System – Agilent 1200 Series / XCT Ultra Ion-Trap MS Detector, with HPLC-Chip
LC/MS System – Agilent 1260 Infinity II Series / 6545 LC/Q-TOF MS Detector
Rapid Resolution LC Systems – Agilent 1200 Series, with Photodiode Array, Refractive Index and Fluorescence Detection
Ion Chromatography System – Thermo Scientific, Dionex ICS-5000
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) System – Waters, Acuity UPC² CO₂
GC/MS System (Ion Trap) – Varian 450-GC / 220-MS, with specialist Programmable Solids Probe, SPME and Headspace Accessories
GC/MS System (Single Quadrupole) – Thermo, Focus GC & DSQ MS
GC/FID System – Hewlett Packard, 6890 Series
Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) System – Agilent CE G1600AX

400 MHz NMR System, including Solid State Probe – Joel ECX-400
FTIR Spectrometer, with Microscope – Varian 660-IR & 610-IR
FTIR Spectrometer, with UATR Accessory – PerkinElmer Spectrum Two FT-IR Spectrometer
NIR Spectrometer – ThermoScientific ANTARIS II FT-NIR Analyser
ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometer – Varian 710-ES
UV Spectrometer – Shimadzu UV-2401PC
Fluorescence Spectrometer – Varian CARY Eclipse
Ultra-Low Light Level Spectrometer – Princeton Instruments
Benchtop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) – TM4000 Hitachi Technologies

Benchtop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) – TM4000 Hitachi Technologies
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) – Bruker Dimension Icon (Glovebox mounted), with the following modes: Contact (liquid/ambient), Tapping (liquid/ambient), Peak Force, Torsional Resonance AFM, Peak Force Kelvin Probe, Peak Force Tunnelling, Tunnelling AFM, Peak Force Quantitative Nanomechanical Mapping, Conductive AFM, Photoconductive AFM, Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM)
Fluorescence Microscope – Olympus BX51
Optical Microscopy – Wide range of optical microscopes available at the PMBRC

Spray Dryer – ProCepT 4M8-TriX
Fluid Bed Processing (Drying/Granulating/Coating) – GEA Strea 1 Classic
Rotary Tablet Press – Riva Piccola 8-station, D-type Tooling
Manual Tablet Press – GlobePharma MTCM-I
Freeze Dryer – LABCONCO, Freezone 2.5
Dissolution Bath – (1.) Distek Dissolution System 2100C; (2.) Vankel/Varian Systems
Disintegration Bath – PharmaTest, Dist 3
Hardness, Bulk/Tap Density and Friability Testers
Polymer Twin-Screw Extrusion System (with Supercritical CO₂ Capability) – SCF Processing Ltd.
Y-Blender – ERWEKA AR 403, with Y5 Mixing Vessel

Protein Analysis System – (1.) iBind2 Western Blotting; (2.) Bolt & Novex native PAGE Electrophoresis Systems
Real-Time PCR System – Applied Biosystems 7300
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) System – BioRad CHEF-DR II
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer (220-750nm) – Nanodrop ND-1000
Thermal Cyclers – Applied Biosystems 2720
Roche Hybridisation Oven
Syngene GeneGenius Bioimaging System

Aerosol Jet Printer – Optomec AJ300
Nanolithography System – Eulitha PHABLE
Thin Film Vacuum Coating System – Edwards AUTO 306
Plasmonic Sensor Characterisation Suite – Hamamatsu Opto-Spectrum Generator (OSG); ANDOR ICON charge-coupled device (ccd) camera; ANDOR complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) camera
Spin-coater – Laurell WS 400B