Ashok Mulchandani's
Bionanotechnology and Biosensors Group

LABORATORY

 

The bionanotechnology and biosensors laboratory is equipped with a Veeco Nanoscpe V Atomic Force Microscope on vibration isolation table, Hirox video microscope (KH-3000) with highest magnification of 7,000 X on top of TMC vibration isolation table, Bioanalytical System CV-27, EG&G 263A and CHI potentiostat/galvanostat, multiple Bioanalytical System LC-4C amperometric detectors, rotating disk electrode, a few DC power supplies, Varian Cary 1E UV-Vis spectrophotometer, Shimazu flow-through spectrofluorometer, microtiter-plate spectrofluorometers with capability of fluorescence polarization and fluorescence lifetime, flow-injection analysis set-up, analytical balances, hot-plate stirrer, pH meter, bench-top centrifuges, Bio-Rad i-cycler, New Brunswick Scientific Bioflow 3000 and Celligen Plus fermentors with pH, DO, temperature, agitation and gas feed controls, an autosampler, incubator-shakers, refrigerators, -20 oC freezer, incubators, Virtis sonicator, gel electrophoresis equipment, a microplate reader, refrigerated water baths, hot plate/stirrers and vacuum oven.

 

Other facilities available as shared facility in the Department include cold-rooms, an autoclave, -70 oC freezer, Beckman J-21 refrigerated centrifuge, biological hoods, GC/MS, GCs, HPLC, Perkin Elmer’s AAnalyst 800 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), microscopes, photodocumentation equipment, French press and water purification system.

 

Facilities for micro- and nano-device fabrication are available at the UCR Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

 

SEM, TEM, confocal fluorescene microscope and necessary infrastructure for sample preparation are available at the UCR Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis.

 

The biotechnology Instrumentation Facility on campus performs micro-amino acid analyses, sequencing, as well as DNA sequencing and synthesis. The Analytical Instrumentaton Research Facility that is maintained by the Chemistry department has 300 MHz and 500 MHz NMRs, FTIR, MS, etc.

 

Additional equipment such as induction coupled plasma for simultaneous analysis of multiple metals, scintillation counter, luminometer and ultracentrifuges are available on the campus.