Equipment
The BMTF has a PC2 laboratory for high throughput biological testing and materials evaluation; as well as an ISO 7 clean room for materials synthesis, processing, fabrication, and surface coating. It also includes a wet lab for standard chemical processes and a robotically controlled high temperature furnace room for preparing ceramic biomaterials.
Our facility includes the following:
Biological Evaluation Laboratory
Two fully enclosed (HEPA filtered) Perkin Elmer automation platforms comprising:
- Janus automated liquid handling workstations (4/8-tip Varispan, 96-well MDT dispenser)
- 6-axis robotic handler with gripper arm for plate movement across workstations
- Ensight multi-mode reader with fluorescence well-imaging, bright field and digital phase-contrast imaging, ultra-sensitive luminescence, fluorescence, absorbance (filter/monochromator) and time resolved fluorescence (TRF) detection,
- Operetta high content imager with temperature & CO2 environmental control for live cell imaging, spinning disk confocal and a range of long WD objectives (D).
Chemical & Polymer Synthesis Equipment
- Vaportec Flow Reactor
- Polar Bear Flow Synthesiser
- Biotage Microwave reactor
- Radley Reactor-Ready Batch Reactor (1,3 & 5 litre)
- SARTOFLOW crossflow filtration system
Polymer Processing Equipment
- Twin screw Mini Laboratory Extruder
- Compression Moulder
- GeSiM Bioscaffolder 3D Printer (in a Class 2 Biosafety Cabinet)
Polymer Coating Equipment:
- Laurell Spin Processor
- Exactacoat Ultrasonic Spray Coating system
- SCS Precision Dip Coating system
- SCS Parylene Coater
- Diener Plasma Reactor
- MBraun Inert Atmosphere Glovebox
- Fusion Light Hammer UV Grafting System
Furnace room
- Robotically controlled facility for the synthesis of ceramic powders