Tools & Facilities

A tool that allows users to bioprint a wide range of materials and cell types.

Digital light processing (DLP) printer for applications in microfluidics, cell-laden hydrogels, macroporous structures, and more.

Digital light processing (DLP) printer for applications in microfluidics, cell-laden hydrogels, macroporous structures, and more.

X-ray microtomography, like tomography and X-ray computed tomography, uses X-rays to create cross-sections of a physical object that can be used to recreate a virtual model (3D model) without destroying the original object.

An automated robotic synthesis platform for the synthesis of a range of biomaterials (Available Spring 2022; accepting proposals now).

The 2DCC Double Crucible Vertical Bridgman (DCVB) furnace, installed December 2022, is the first Bridgman system with a double crucible and a high‑pressure chamber for vacuum or inert atmospheres. It enables composition‑controlled crystal growth from incongruently melting materials by continuously feeding source materials to the growth crucible and suppressing volatilization.

The 2DCC Inert Atmosphere Cluster Tool enables the fabrication and characterization of air-sensitive van der Waals heterostructures and devices. It consists of three major pieces of instrumentation housed in two conjoined, argon gas-filled gloveboxes. The tool features a state-of-the-art transfer stage from HQ Graphene, an atomic force microscope from Asylum

High-speed, high-dynamic range momentum-resolved electron microscope pixel-array detector developed by Muller and collaborators

PARADIM’s electron microscopy (EM) facility leverages and expands on existing capabilities in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR, a research center that includes an NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC DMR-1719875) giving users access to a unique set of advanced analysis tools for materials characterization. 

A fully motorized tool in electronic microscopy typically operated at 120 kV.

This instrument is capable of imaging inorganic and organic materials at the nanoscale.

Rapid structural characterization of epitaxial thin films is available on-site with a Panalytical Empyrean four circle X-ray diffractometer (XRD), offering high-intensity θ-2θ scans, rocking curves, and a 2-D pixel detector for reciprocal space maps (RSMs).  XRD provides critical feedback of phase purity, film thickness, and structural information to aid in optimizing thin film growth parameters in the MBE

The four mirror halogen floating-zone furnace is a standard optical furnace with homogenous temperature distribution around the horizontal plane. Accessible via the PARADIM-IQM equipment sharing agreement, users can operate it under a pressure of up to 10 bar of gas with options for growing samples under Argon, Air, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and other gases at a temperature of 2200° C. Typical samples are rods, 4-8 mm in diameter and 1-10 cm in height.

The four mirror Xenon floating-zone furnace is a high temperature optical furnace that can be operated at an elevated temperature between 1500-3000+° C. Accessible via the PARADIM-IQM equipment sharing agreement, users can operate this furnace under a pressure of up to 10 bar of argon, air, oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases. Typical sample size that can be accommodated in this furnace are 4-16 mm in diameter and 1-15 cm in height.

The GlycoMIP user facility will provide all-atom molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations through a one-of-a-kind virtual user facility.

Initially pioneered by Peter Seeberger, the Glyconeer® is the first commercial, fully automated oligosaccharide synthesizer. This instrument, in combination with commercially available building blocks, enables users to quickly and reproducibly synthesize an array of higher order oligosaccharides.

Automated parallel syntheses of peptides, peptidomimetics, and peptide-polymer conjugates.

Compared with conventional atomic-resolution STEM imaging techniques, the mixed-state ptychographic approach simultaneously provides a four-times-faster acquisition, with double the information limit at the same dose, or up to a fifty-fold reduction in dose at the same resolution.