Equipment & Instrumentation

Group Research Equipment & Instrumentation

Scanning Electron Microscope

Acquired through Nebraska EPSCoR MRI Award (PI)

Specifications

  • FEG source

  • Backscatter (BSE) and secondary electron (SE) detectors

  • EDS and EDS mapping capable

Specified Resolution

  • 2.5 nm (SE), 4 nm (BSE) at 15 kV

  • 10 nm (SE) at 3 kV

Au/Pd and carbon sputter coater- Denton Desk V

If you are interested in using the SEM, please contact me directly (joeldestino@creighton.edu). Usage rates may apply.

Located in Rigge 216 (Instrument Lab)

More details: https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/electron-microscopy/products/desktop-scanning-electron-microscopes/phenom-pharos.html

Sputter coater- https://www.dentonvacuum.com/products-technologies/sample-preparation/desk-v/

Atomic Force Microscope

SmartSPM 1000 Scanning Probe Microscope

  • Fully automated (but also can be user-controlled)

  • Ultrafast scan rates

  • Capable of various ambient scanning probe measurements (KPFM, force mapping, etc.)

If you are interested in obtaining AFM and/or other force probe measurements, please contact me directly (joeldestino@creighton.edu).

Located in Rigge 215

More details: http://www.aist-nt.com/products/smartspmtm-1000

Epi-Luminescence Microscope

Thorlabs/home-built hyperspectral epi-luminescence microscope (sample image to the left is similar, but not identical)

  • Liquid-crystal tunable filter

  • Various LEDs and filters for 340 nm to 530 nm excitation

  • 10x and 50x LWD Mitutoyo plan apochromat objectives

  • Can be combined with AFM for co-localized measurements

If you are interested in using the epi-luminescence microscope, please contact me directly (joeldestino@creighton.edu).

Located in Rigge 215

Raman Spectrometer

Wasatch Photonics Extended Range Spectrometer

  • Fully-integrated multi-mode laser system

  • 785 nm laser excitation

  • Spectral range- 100-3600 cm-1

  • Open optical fiber sampling or standard cuvette sample holders are available for liquid and solid analysis

More details: https://wasatchphotonics.com/product/wp-785-er-ic-raman-spectrometer-2/

Located in Rigge 216 (Instrument Lab)

3D Printer

  • Standard thermoplastic extrusion printer

  • Adapted with a syringe pump for paste extrusion

If you are interested in using the epi-luminescence microscope, please contact me directly (joeldestino@creighton.edu).

Located in Rigge 215

More details: https://ultimaker.com/3d-printers/ultimaker-2-plus

Furnaces

Located in Rigge 215

  • 1100ºC box furnace (programmable)

  • 1200ºC muffle furnace (programmable)

Additional Instrumentation in shared user Laboratories*

Mass Spectrometers

  • ESI/APCI MS, Advion ExpressionS CMS

  • GC/MSD, Agilent 6850/5973

  • GC/MSD, Agilent 6859/5975 with autosampler

  • MALDI TOF MS, ABI Voyager-DE Pro

  • LC/MS/MS, Bruker micrOTOF Q III

NMR Spectrometer

  • Bruker Avance III HD 400

FTIR Spectrometers

  • Thermo iS5, equipped with ATR (2)

  • Nicolet Avatar 370, equipped with VT ATR

  • Thermo iS10, equipped with diamond ATR


Chromatography

GC

  • HP 5890 (4)

  • HP 6850

  • Agilent 8860 (2)

  • Agilent 7890B

HPLC

  • Agilent 1260 quaternary gradient with diode array detector

  • Dionex quaternary gradient, UV/Vis and electrochemical detectors

  • HP 1100, UV/vis detector (2)

AA Spectrometers

  • Agilent 240

  • GBC Avanta

UV/Visible & Fluorescence Spectroscopy

  • Agilent Cary 300

  • HP 8453

  • Cary Eclipse (fluorescence)

  • Biotek Synergy H1 Plate Reader (3)

Other

  • Centrifuge: Sorvall Legend RT+

  • DNA Sequencer: ABI Prism 377

  • PCR system: Perkin-Elmer 2400 GeneAmp

  • Titrimeters: Allied-Fisher (4)

  • Polarographic analyzer: EGSG

  • Electrochemical
    analysis system: BAS

*List is not complete, only representative