Chemistry Laboratories
Laboratories for the synthesis of functional materials, including organic and inorganic compounds. These laboratories are equipped with state-of-the art synthetic facilities, such as: high precision balances, rotary evaporators, a solvent purification system, Schlenk lines, microwave synthesis facilities, high speed refrigerated centrifuge, ultrasonic homogenizer, tubular and muffle furnaces with controlled atmosphere, Ozone-UV system, glove boxes, (photo)-electrochemical reactor, autoclave reactors, among others.
These laboratories are equipped with last technologies for a safe and secure work environment including ventilated hoods, security cabinets, temperature controllers and oxygen sensors.
Chemical Engineering Laboratory
Process engineering laboratories equipped with: A fully automated synthetic platform (Vpaourtec R400) including 2 HPLC pumps, 2 peristaltic pumps, 4 parallel reactor modules with T control, autosampler, fraction collector, different reactor modules: tubular, packed-columns, photo and electrochemical. Analytical tools including a flow NMR (Magritek Spinsolve 80 Ultra), based on a permanent magnet capable to perform 1H, 13C, 19F, t1-t2 determination and 2D experiments under continuous-flow conditions.
Additive manufacturing capabilities including: 1 inkjet printer (PixDro LP50) equipped with DMC Samba cartridges; 1 direct ink writing robot (Nordson ProPlus 4) equipped with contact and non-contact printing valves; 2 SLA printers (Form 2 and Form 3); 3 LCD printers (Elegoo Mars 2, 3) and 2 FDM (Ultimaker S5 Pro and Creality Ender 3).
Computational Laboratory
HPC computing facility consisting of a total of 914 cores (of different types), and 26 GPUs (of models 12: GTX-1080, 2: RTX-2080 and 12: RTX-3090). CPU computing power is ~20 Tflops (estimate based on HPLinpack 2.3).
Biochemical Laboratories
Laboratory for molecular techniques, plasmid management, cell infection, virions preparation, RNA/DNA purification. Equipment: Centrifuges, Nanodrop
Biochemical techniques, synthesis proteins in E.coli, purification and identification by electrophoresis gels. Catalytic activity of synthetic polymers. Equipment: Incubators, shakers to grow bacteria.
Cell culture; ELISA, western blot, immunofluorescence. Equipment; Microscope, hoods, centrifuges, and incubators for culturing cells
Animal studies, behavioural paradigms, (memory, social interaction, anxiety, attention, pain); Ex vivo, brain slices, measures spine density, neural circuitries, inflammatory markers Equipment, criostate, microscope.
Device Processing Laboratories
Laboratories for the preparation of optical and optoelectronic devices, including: ALD equipment, sputtering system, screen-printing machine, a spray pyrolysis equipment, automatic doctor blade system, spin-coaters, automatic dip coater, 3 metal evaporators, laser scriber, etc.
Analytical Characterization Laboratory
Laboratories for the l characterization of samples, with modern analytical equipment: gas chromatograph with TCD and FID detectors, gas chromatograph with MS detector, gas chromatographs fitted in-line fast and real time analysis and a HPLC chromatography equipment, ITC microcalorimeter Systems.
Optical Characterization Laboratory
Laboratories for the optical and electro-optical characterization of semiconductors and optoelectronic devices: 3 UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometers with differentiated wavelength ranges that cover from 200 to 2500nm, 1 FTIR spectrophotometer, 1 fluorometer for steady state and time-resolved measurements for liquid and solid state samples, 1 integrating sphere setup for quantification of photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQY) of materials (liquid and solid) and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of light-emitting devices, 2 CCD based setups for steady-state optical measurements and 1 intensified CCD (i-CCD) for time-resolved optical measurements, 1 potentiostat, 1 ns-pulsed laser with tunable wavelengths between 410 and 2400 nm without interruptions plus 355 nm, 3 continuous laser diodes (405, 532 and 730 nm), 2 incident photon to current (IPCE) setups, 1 solar simulator for solar cells characterization (I-V curves, EQE and IQE) with a module for photothermal deflection (PTD) measurements, 1 oscilloscope and 1 probe station with temperature control for electro-optical measurements. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) with capacitive to measure Kelvin Prove Force Microscopy (KPFM) and resistance in electrical conductive mode.
Electrical Characterization Laboratory
Laboratories for the electrical characterization are equipped with several high sensitivity current-voltage source meters (i.e. Keithleys), oscilloscopes and potentiostasts that enable a wide range of measurements for the different electronic devices fabricated at INAM. The systems are versatile and can be coupled with light sources such as solar simulators, LED or laser light sources for continuous lighting or pulsed measurements as well as small perturbation techniques. For example, typical measurements include basic J-V curves of solar cells, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometric and chronovoltammetric tests, impedance spectroscopy (IS), intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS), intensity modulated photovoltage spectroscopy (IMVS) of (photo)electrochemical cells, charge and discharge cycling of batteries using multichannel potentiostasts, impedance spectroscopy and capacitance-voltage measurements of different electronic devices, etc...
