FACILITIES: Soft Matter and Wetting group
The Soft Matter and Wetting research group is located in Nanotalo at the Otaniemi campus. We share laboratory facilities with Molecular Materials research group, and also have equipment of the Department of Applied Physics and the Nanomicroscopy Center (NMC) at our disposal.
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Equipment operated by Soft Matter and Wetting
Interested users are encouraged to contact the responsible persons listed below.
- Contact: Sakari Lepikko
- Model: J.A. Woollam M2000UI variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer
- Spectral range 245 – 1690 nm
- Accessories: Mapping stage and focusing probes
- Contact: Kai Liu
- Model: Biolin Scientific Attension Theta
- For measuring contact angles, surface free energies, interfacial tensions and rheology
- Camera resolution 1984 x 1264
- Pulsating drop module for measurement of surface dilational rheology
- Accessories: automatic liquid dispenser & tilting cradle
- Contact: Sourov Chandra
- Model: QuantaMaster 40
- UV-vis detector, wavelength range from 200 to 800 nm
- NIR detector, from 800 to 1400 nm
- Contact: Sakari Lepikko
- Model: Savannah S200 Atomic Layer Deposition system
- SAMS kit
- Accessories: In-situ QCM and Ellipsometry for monitoring film thickness
- Contact: Tommi Huhtamäki
- Model: Diener Pico
- Oxygen and water plasma
- 13,57 MHz, 100 W Generator
- Chamber width ~10 cm, length ~30 cm
- Contact: Mika Latikka
- Phantom Miro 310
- Phantom V1610
Sample preparation
We have access to a well-equipped wet chemistry lab with several fume hoods, high-vacuum ovens, pressure annealing ovens, electrospinning apparatus, spin-coating, centrifuge, automated LbL machine, sputtering, etc... Other sample preparation tools accessible to us include:
- Sample trimmer: Leica EM Trim
- Ultramicrotome: Leica 125 UCT with cryo: Leica EM FC S
- Sputter: Emitech K100X/K350/K950X, carbon and metal sputtering, glow discharge unit
- Vitrobot: automated vitrifying equipment for cryo-TEM sample preparation
- Spin coater: Headway Research PWM32 for making thin films
- Centrifuge: Beckman Coulter Allegra X-22R
- Sonicators, both bath-type and tip-type
- Ovens: vacuum, pyrolysis, pressure annealing etc.
- UV reactor: Rayonet RPR-200
- Automatic Layer-by-Layer deposition
Shared equipment
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