Equipment
Microscopes
The JEOL JSM-IT500HR is a high-resolution scanning electron microscope with field-emission electron gun (FEG) electron source.
Equipped with EDAX Velocity Pro EBSD Camera with up to 2000 index points per second indexing performance on real world materials.
Fully equipped Leica M205 FCA stereomicroscope with fluorescence imaging, high depth-of-field, and a combination of reflected and transmitted light imaging (cells + metallic implant)
Measurements of surface roughness and surface topography (line profiles) using Olympus LEXT OLS5000, capable of determining the surface quality of manufactured implants in great detail.
Binocular educational microscope for life science postdocs with 4 or 5 infinity-corrected or HI plan-achromat objectives and fluorescence capability.
Mechanical properties
Electrodynamic tester Instron Electropuls E3000 with environmental chamber is all-electric test instrument designed for dynamic and static testing on a wide range of materials and components.
Features:
- Oil-Free de-coupled linear/rotary actuators
- ±3000 N dynamic linear load capacity and ±25 Nm dynamic torque capacity
- Versatile T-slot table for regular and irregular grips and specimens
Anton-Paar MST microscratch tester is used to characterize film-substrate systems and to quantify properties such as adhesive and cohesive strengths, friction force, deformation, and elastic recovery.
In-situ micromechanical testing platform is used for the characterization of materials and devices in nano/microvolumes (e.g., nanoindentation, micropillar compression, microcantilever bending, scratch testing). Direct observation of the tests in SEM enables the correlation of the measured data with the deformation mechanisms.
Anton-Paar indentation tester is designed for measuring hardness, elastic modulus, creep, and other surface properties from the nanometer to the micrometer scale. Two modules (NHT2 nanoindenter and MHT microindenter) enable large range of applied forces.
In-house developed FNSPE Resonance-based Testing Machine (unified 4x3x32 mm specimens) for rapid prototyping (testing of fatigue crack growth rate with unprecedented speed, Digital Image Correlation).
