Infrastructure

• chemical synthetic laboratories
• physical laboratories
• material testing laboratory
• mechanical workshop
• biochemical laboratory (S2)
• biological laboratory (S2)
• microbiological laboratory (S2)
• small animal test facility (S1)

Research equipment

• Powder printer for 3D-Rapid-Prototyping of patient-specific scaffolds
• Planetary ball mill
• Furnaces for up to 1500°C in air for calcinating and sintering of powders
• ICP-MS for chemical and trace analysis
• NanoSight NS 500 Nanotracker
• DLS Particle Sizer/Zeta Sizer
• Viscotek GPCmax for gel permeation chromatography
• XRD for phase analysis by X-ray diffraction
• X-ray photometer
• FTIR spectrometer
• UV-Vis spectrometer
• Histology equipment
• Fluorescence microscope Zeiss Axis Imager.M1
• Zeiss stereomicroscope Discovery V20 (transmission, diffusor, ringlight)
• Inverse microscope Zeiss Axis Observer.Z1
• Crossbeam electron microscope Zeiss XB 340
• Vickers indenter for Vickers hardness determination
• Physical vapor deposition (magnetron sputtering, plasma techniques)
• Potentiostats/galvanostats for elektrochemical deposition
• Melt-Electrospinning-Device
• Solution-Electrospinning-Device
• Universal testing machine Zwick for tensile, compression, and bending tests
• Zeiss DSM 940 scanning electron microscope
• Sam5blue SAW (surface acoustic wave)for interaction analysis on surfaces
• Scanning force microscope Nanosurf FlexAFM
• Contact angle measuring device Dataphysics OCA 15
• Nanosurf FluidFM for targeted single cell manipulation
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