Nanoscience Laboratory

Nanotechnology Capabilities:

From January 2007, the Nanocrystal Laboratory will be located in the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. Facilities within the Laboratory or within the Bio21 Building include:

Electron Microscopy

• FEI 300kV FEGTEM
• FEI Nanolab FIB
• FEI FEGSEM
• FEI cryo FEGTEM
• Clean Room Class 1000
• Modern specimen preparation facilitites for 1-4

Atomic Force Microscopy

• Dimension 3100 AFM

Lab Facilities

• Basic spin coater (Headland Research)
• Automated Dipcoater NIMA technologies
• Jobin Yvon Spectroscopic Ellipsometer (200-2000nm)
• Jobin Yvon Flurolog Fluorimeter and Single Photon counting Lifetime (>500ps)
• Cary 5 UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer
• EMITECH Sputter Coater
• Renishaw Raman confocal microscope
• Olympus 3-laser Confocal microscope for sinfle molecule spectroscopy and imaging
• Cryo capability for fluorimeter (77K at present)
• state of the art Fume Cupboards/Schlenk Lines/laminar flow cupboards
• Dark Field Imaging and spectroscopy of single nanocrystals

Research Group:

University of Melbourne, Chemistry School, Nanoscience Laboratory

Contact Details:

Paul Mulvaney
61- 03 8344 2405.