Overview

Our lab is equiped with good facilities, including benches for general use, softlithography instruments, imaging instruments, and tissue culture instruments.

Lab layout
Bench #1
Bench #2
Tissue culture room
PDMS working area

Microfabrication facilities

  • PDMS soft lithography
    • Vaccums for degasing
    • Ovens for baking
    • UV-Ozone cleaner for surface activation
    • Syringe pumps
    • Plasma cleaner for surface activation
  • Laser cutter (access)
  • Critical point dryer (Leica, access)
  • Stardard photolithography (SU-8, silicon etching; outsource)
  • Nanoscale materials characterization tools (access)
  • Micro/Nanofab Center at SUSTech (access)

Some instruments are shown below.

UV-Ozone cleaner
Oven
Vacuum chambers
Syringe pumps
Plasma cleaner
Dark room for UV curing

Imaging Facilities

  • Inverted phase contrast microscope (Nikon Ts2)
  • Stereomicroscope (Motic SMZ)
  • Digital microscope (Dino-Lite)
  • Inverted fluorescence microscope (Nikon Eclipse Ti2-E)
  • Laser confocal microscope (Leica TCS SP5, access)
  • Scanning electron microscope (access)
  • High-speed camera (Phantom, access)

Some instruments are shown below.

Nikon Ts2

Motic Stereomicroscope

Nikon Eclipse Ti2-E Fluorescence Microscope

Motic AE2000 Inverted

Phantom VEO High-speed Camera

Tissue Culture Facilities

  • Cleanroom
  • Biosafety cabinets, clean benches, etc.
  • 4, -20, and -80 ℃ fridges/freezers
  • Autoclaves
  • Incubators
  • Bio-analysis instruments (access)

Some instruments are shown below.

Tissue culture room
Tissue culture room