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Agilent 34970A Data Acquisition/Switch Unit

Provides Instrumentation and infrastructure

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL)
Type: Instrument

Agilent Ion-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

The ultra-high sensitivity Agilent ICP-MS is capable of measuring multiple isotopes of multiple elements in a single sample. It is also coupled to a novel system for chromatographic analysis of mercury species.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES)
Type: Instrument

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS-Image Quant LAS 4010

The LAS 4010 Luminescent image analyzer is primarily used to document gels. Using a 16 Bit, 3.2megapixel camera, F0.85 lens, filters and transmitted and epi illumination this system is ideally suited for chemiluminescence, luminescence and transmitted light imaging.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
Type: Instrument

Biological microscopes and scanners

Biological microscopes and scanners

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
Type: Instrument

Biomedical Imaging Center, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois.

We are a unit of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center traces its heritage to the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory founded at the University of Illinois by Professor Paul Lauterbur, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. We are a state-of-the-art biomedical imaging facility committed to the development of cutting edge techniques which integrate magnetic resonance methods with other imaging techniques, including optical imaging, eye-tracking, EEG and MEG.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Beckman Institute
Type: Instrument

Bruker D8 Venture (DUO)

This dual source system is equipped with a four-circle kappa-axis diffractometer and motorized Photon 100 CMOS detector capable of shutter-less data collection. This state-of-the-art multipurpose system used Cu or Mo radiation and is primarily used for variable temperature, single crystal experiments on samples with a minimum dimension of 0.01mm. The system is also available for absolute structure determination of organics, wide-angle, powder, film, and fiber x-ray diffraction experiments on samples ranging from minerals to macromolecules.

For additional information about the workings or status of this instrument, please contact any staff member.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
Type: Instrument

Bruker X8ApexII (APEX)

The system is equipped with a four-circle kappa-axis diffractometer and motorized ApexII CCD detector. This state-of-the-art system uses Mo radiation and is primarily used for variable temperature, single crystal experiments on samples with a minimum dimension of 0.01mm. 

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
Type: Instrument

CDB Microscopy Facility

Various Microscope Equipment

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB)
Type: Instrument

Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma Coupled Combustion (XPACC)

The Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion (XPACC) will be working to develop a new mode of managing combustion and aims to make breakthroughs in this emerging field at the basic science level.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Parallel Computing Institute
Type: Instrument

Computer Workstations - CU Fab Lab

We maintain one long-term computer lab (15 seats) and a number of flexible all-in-one (AIO) and laptop computers that can be setup in any fashion in other locations throughout the building. Generally our staffing and space capacity allow us to facilitate up to 30 participants in workshops, so long as they are split into two groups, or 45 if we split people up into three groups.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab
Type: Instrument

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

This facility provides the the University of Illinois as well as other members of scientific community with EPR (also called ESR, electron spin resonance, or EMR, electron magnetic resonance), ENDOR, and ESEEM facilities and expertise. Additionally, the facility is involved in collaborative research and works with scientists worldwide who are interested in EPR techniques. We encourage scientists of all disciplines to visit our center and undertake collaborative or other work. Where feasible, samples can be sent in for spectral examination by laboratory personnel.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
Type: Instrument

Embodied Learning Augmented through Simulation Theaters for Interacting with Cross-Cutting Concepts in Science

Embodied Learning Augmented through Simulation Theaters for Interacting with Cross-Cutting Concepts in Science) is an NSF Cyberlearning research project conducted by an interdisciplinary team of learning scientists and computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goal of this project is explore ways that body movement can be used to enhance learning of "big ideas" in science. We are developing new techniques for tracking and recognizing the hand and body movements of K12 learners so that they can interact in expressive ways with simulations from a range of topic areas in geology, chemistry, biology, etc.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: College of Education
Type: Instrument

EpiWorks

Located in Champaign, IL, EpiWorks is a semiconductor technology company that spun out of the late Professor Greg Stillman's research lab at MNTL. Stillman founded the company in 1997 with two of his graduate students, David Ahmari (PhD EE 1998) and Quesnell Hartmann (PhD EE 1998), who had developed novel material deposition techniques and designs for high-performance III-V epitaxial devices.. EpiWorks, which is led by Ahmari and Hartmann, is developing the next generation of infrastructure for communications, data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) backbone. The company designs and manufactures III-V semiconductor wafers for RF applications such as smartphones and tablets and photonics applications such as data centers and mobile photonics. With expertise in both device design and crystal growth, EpiWorks’ engineers tailor a wafer's atomically thin layers for each customer's specific needs, thus optimizing device performance.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: EpiWorks
Type: Instrument

FormLabs Form 2 - 3D Printer

The Form 2 Desktop 3D printer is able to deliver large prints with incredible resolution. The method used by the majority of 3D printers, fused deposition modeling (FDM), first melts the plastic, then uses a nozzle extruder to print each layer with the molten plastic. The stereolithography (SLA) technology used by the Form 2 directs a 250mW precision laser across a tray of liquid resin causing a thin layer to solidify. This chemical reaction allows for the creation of water-tight prints and is why SLA is the gold standard for accuracy and resolution in 3D printing.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
Type: Instrument

Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

This is an extremely small mass spectrometer mounted on the side of a gas chromatograph. You will need our GC/MS capabilities if your sample weighs more than 800 Da if you need other than EI ionization or if you require more sensitivity than the MSD provides

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
Type: Instrument

G.L. Clark X-Ray Facility

This laboratory provides the school with a complete structural chemistry service. Located on the ground floor on Noyes Laboratory, the 3M Materials Chemistry Laboratory is housed in 2,700 square feet of space and staffed by two crystallographers. State-of-art hardware and software systems allow for detailed X-ray analysis of materials from minerals to macromolecules.

The x-ray facility performs a wide variety of experiments including small and wide angle x-ray scattering, in addition to powder, fiber, and single crystal x-ray diffraction. This facility helps maintain structural database systems that provide electronic search, retrieval, analysis, data, and graphics for inorganic, organic, and macromolecular structures. Facility personnel help investigators correlate x-ray diffraction results with other single crystal and bulk sample experiments including laser, EPR, NMR, and microwave. The staff also offers instruction covering x-ray diffraction experiments from design and data collection to analysis and presentation of results. Experimental data for research groups is routinely provided in less than one week. Alternatively, faculty, staff, students, and visitors are welcome to use facility equipment to collect their own data.

The George L. Clark X-Ray Facility is the x-ray diffraction and scattering component of the Center for Complex Structures. The laboratory maintains several experimental systems.

 

Experimental Systems

  • The first is a Bruker D8 Venture Duo This dual source system is equipped with a four-circle kappa-axis diffractometer and motorized Photon 100 CMOS detector capable of shutter-less data collection.  This state-of-the-art multipurpose system used Cu or Mo radiation and is primarily used for variable temperature, single crystal experiments on samples with a minimum dimension of 0.01mm.  The system is also available for absolute structure determination of organics, wide-angle, powder, film, and fiber x-ray diffraction experiments on samples ranging from minerals to macromolecules.
  • The second system is a Bruker X8ApexII (APEX). The system is equipped with a four-circle kappa-axis diffractometer and motorized ApexII CCD detector. This state-of-the-art system uses Mo radiation and is primarily used for variable temperature, single crystal experiments on samples with a minimum dimension of 0.01mm.
  • The third system is a Rigaku Miniflex 600 powder x-ray diffraction system.  The benchtop powder X-ray instrument is set up to collect PXRD in reflection mode with a 2θ scan range of 3° to 120°.  The instrument uses Cu radiation and a wide area scintillation counter detection system.  The instrument is operated at the maximum power 600W (40kV – 15mA) and data collection scans can be continuous or step-wise.  A variety of sample preparation techniques can be used and we have three zero background single crystal quartz sample holders.  The system is available for wide-angle, powder, and film x-ray diffraction experiments on samples ranging from minerals to macromolecules.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: School of Chemical Sciences (SCS)
Type: Instrument

GPS

3 Trimble proxr® systems capable of submeter accuracy in real-time or post-processing ‚Äî gps coordinates for drilling, logging, surface geophysics, and other features.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS)
Type: Instrument

Healthcare Engineering Systems Centre

Aross-simulator-templatet Health Care Engineering Systems Center we apply our expertise in the broad areas of Surgical Simulation, Health Care Monitoring, Robotics and Devices, Materials and Mechanics, and Human Factors/Industrial Ergonomics and Design (and related areas) to develop collaborative projects that could be used to improve health care education and delivery. Our research, through the Jump ARCHES partnership, is expected to generate the leverage required to fund translational research, discover new technologies and bring them to practical use in order to improve healthcare outcomes. Our focus is on applying technologies which have been introduced to practice and tested for clinical or simulation use. Our studies will demonstrate improved clinical outcomes, cost reductions, and improved quality through simulation.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC)
Type: Instrument

Image Analysis Facility

IMAGE ANALYSIS FACILITY Core Facilities at the Institute for Genomic Biology is your resource for biological microscopy and image analysis. Our facilities are conveniently located, and we provide a variety of services to both IGB researchers and others in the campus community. Our facility is meant to encourage innovation - try new techniques and approaches to achieving your research goals without a significant investment in instrumentation or time.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
Type: Instrument

Image Technology Development

The Imaging Technology Group staff and their collaborators develop technology-based projects as part of their research practice. These projects are rooted in imaging and typically involve software development, educational outreach, and other endeavors that might benefit the larger scientific, artistic, and educational communities. Select a project link below for more details.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Beckman Institute
Type: Instrument

Impatient MRI

Through the Illinois Massively Parallel Acceleration Toolkit project, researchers have honed in on a way to speed up the acquisition and reconstruction of MRI images, while maintaining accuracy. The project, which draws on Brute Force and Toeplitz technologies, has enabled MRI processing in hours instead of weeks. The research is sponsored in part by the National Institutes of Health.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)
Type: Instrument

Lab / Equipment Rental- CU Fab Lab

Rent out specific machines or our entire lab for tours, immediate tool access and individual help time. Rentals include charges for machine use but not materials.University of Illinois classes or external organizations interested in using the lab for multiple or specialized sessions or workshops should contact us to make specific arrangements.Patrons interested in seeking help from a dedicated consultant should contact us first to make sure we have someone available in our referral and staff network. Skills include (but are not limited to): 3D design for 3D printing and milling with Solidworks, SketchUp, Autodesk Inventor and Minecraft, Graphic design with Inkscape or Illustrator, website design and development, Small board electronics and circuit blueprinting Fashion design and advanced textiles, Blacksmithing and metalworking

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab
Type: Instrument

Laser and Optical Spectroscopy Facility

The LSF provides access to a variety of lasers and instruments, it meets the scientific needs of about 20 research groups and trains about 40 new users per year. Laser wavelengths range from 300 nm in the ultraviolet to 20μm in the mid-infrared. Line widths as narrow as 15 kHz and pulses as short as 10-13s are available. he MRL-CMM Laser and Spectroscopy Facility (LSF) is part of the MRL Central Research Facilities, and as such, is a user-oriented and user-friendly facility that provides the modern photon-based analytical capabilities essential to today's materials science. The LSF emphasizes the study of optical properties of materials and interfaces, and its relation to microstructural and microchemical composition, phase transitions, crystalline, electronic and defect structure of materials, surfaces and interfaces. The LSF is a collaborative research center open to national and international researchers from universities, government laboratories and industry.

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: Materials Research Laboratory (MRL)
Type: Instrument

Library technology

Public Computers | Laptops / Wireless | Printers | Scanners | Photocopiers | Microfiche Scanner/Reader/Printer | Audiovisual Equipment |

Affiliation: UIUC
Provider: University Library
Type: Instrument



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