Contact : Nicolas Winssinger
Contact : Paolo Samori or Thomas Ebbesen
Fully equipped Digital Instruments - Dimension 3100 Scanning Force Microscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, running on a Nanoscope IV control unit. This instrument is equipped with the latest optional (“Nanoman”), combined with Dimensional Closed Loop SPM Microscope Head, which allows to manipulate objects in the nanoscale using the SPM tip.
A FEI Dual Beam 235: FIB-SEM-STEM with an ion beam (FIB, ( 5 nm) and electron beam (SEM, (1 nm) which allows state-of-the-art nanofabrication of samples (characterisation, deposition, milling, etc.).
Keithley 6517 A Electrometer / High Res. Meter: (resolution 0.1 femtoAmp) interfaced with a PC
Spin coater with temperature controlled heating stage
Oven for performing thermal annealing in controlled atmospheres
Inverted Nikon and Mitutoyo optical microscope, with liquid nitrogen cooled CCD 2D detector and spectrograph for optical measurements of nanoscopic objects.
Autolab Galvanostat/Potentiostat for electrochemistry work
Spex Fluorolog spectrofluorimeter and Shimadzu UV-VIS spectrophotometer
A class 1000 clean room is available for the sample preparation.
Emitech sputterer, etc.
Contact : Martin Karplus
facilities for high-performance computing
computational chemistry and molecular modeling programs
molecular graphics programs
Contact : Jean-Louis Schmitt
UV-Visible Spectrometer VARIAN CARY3, working also in variable temperature (-10°C à +100°C)
Luminescence Spectrometer SLM AMICO BOWMAN series 2, working also in variable temperature
Büchi Melting point B-540
Microscope Opronic
NMR Bruker AVANCE 400
MHz, with a BBO probe, observable species 1H, 13C, Ag at 31P
Contact : Christian Rick
Cell sorter (Daco Cytomation, MoFlo)
Inverted microscope (Zeiss, Axiovert 200)
High speed camera (Phantom v4.2)
Mask aligner (Suss, MJB-3)
UV lamp (Dymax, 5000-PC avec cabine d'exposition et rideau électrique d'occultation)
Spin coater (Laurell Technologies, WS-400B-6NPP-Lite Single Wafer Spin Processor)
Oxygen plasma chamber (GaLa Instrumente, PlasmaPrep2)
Contact : Burkhard Bechinger (Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Membrane Polypeptides)
Bruker Avance 400 wide-bore NMR spectrometer with high power linear amplifiers (3 channels)
Bruker Avance 500 wide-bore NMR spectrometer with high power linear amplifiers (3 channels)
Bruker MSL 300 wide-bore NMR spectrometer with high power amplifiers (2 channels)
several commercial and home-built probes for solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy (wide line and MAS)
Hewlett Packard vectorial network analyser, 300 kHz to 1.3
GHz
Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 solid impact/R10000, Indigo 2X, O2 and Indy workstations for NMR data analysis
Waters HPLC 600 with columns for preparative and analytical polypeptide purification
Bischoff HPLC with automatic sample injector and columns for preparative and analytical polypeptide purification
Millipore automatic peptide synthesiser
Molecular Biology laboratory
Laboratory for protein purification including low pressure chromatography, preparative isoelectric focusing, preparative and analytical gel electrophoresis, centrifugation, double-beam UV-VIS spectral photometer Uvicon 922, French press, autoclave, etc.
5 Liter fermenter (credits available)
Microarrayer, incubating oven and scanners
High resolution NMR instruments (300, 400, 500
MHz instruments)
Solid state NMR instruments (300, 400, 500
MHz)
LC/
MS (ESI/ TOF) and MALDI TOF mass spectrometer
Vapor phase osmometry
Molecular graphics and modeling facilities
Cary UV Spectrophotometer
Shimadzu fluorescence spectrophotometer
FT-IR spectrometer
X-ray diffraction facility
Cold room