Equipment & Facilities
The following is a list of the main items of equipment in the PMBRC.
Materials Characterisation
- Particle Size Analyser - Malvern Mastersizer 2000 (liquid) and Mastersizer S (powder) units
- Surface Area & Pore Size Analyser - Micromeritics Gemini VI 2385C
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) – Q2000 TA Instruments
- Thermal Gravimetric Analyser (TGA) – Q50 TA Instruments
- Surface Tension and Contact Angle measurement system – Krüss G10
- Texture Analyser – Stable Micro Systems TA.XTplus
- Dynamic Vapour Sorption (DVS) - SMS DVS Intrinsic
Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
- HPLC-Chip/Mass Spectrometry System – Agilent
- Rapid Resolution LC Systems (with photodiode array and fluorescence detection) - Agilent 1200 Series
- GC-Mass Spectrometry with specialist programmable solids probe, SPME and headspace analysis
- Capillary Electrophoresis
Spectroscopy
- Jeol 400 MHz NMR (including solid state probe)
- Near/Mid/Far FTIR with Microscope
- ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer)
- UV Spectrophotometer
- Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
- Ultra low light level spectroscopy
Microscopy
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- Atomic Force Microscope - (Contact & Non-contact)
- Scanning Force Microscopy
- Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
- Thin film preparation (Thermal Evaporation)
- Fluorescence Microscope
- Optical microscopes
Formulation Equipment
- Strea Fluid Bed Granulator / Coater / Dryer
- Manual Tablet Press - Globe Pharma MTCM-I
- Freeze Dryer – VirTis BTK unit
- Dissolution Bath – Distek 2100C
- Disintegration bath, hardness and friability testers
Molecular Biotechnology Equipment
- DNA sequencers - AB 310 Genetic Analyzer
- AB 7300 Real-Time PCR System
- Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) - BioRad CHEF DRIVE II
- Nanodrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer
- AB 2720 Thermal Cyclers
- Roche hybridisation oven
- Syngene GeneGenius Bioimaging system
Biomedical Equipment
- Flow Cytometer
- Fluorescence Microscope
- Bio-Plex 200 Suspension Multiarray Electrochemiluminescence System
- ELISA
- Haematology analyser
- Clinical chemistry analyser
