• Surface Analysis and Physical Methods of Materials Characterization
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
• X-Ray Diffraction
• Auger Electron Spectroscopy
• Rutherford Back Scattering
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Differential Thermal Analysis

• Mechanical Testing
• Servohydraulic Cyclic Loading, Biaxial Testing Machine
• Rotating Beam Fatigue Testing Machines

• Physical Chemical Methods
• Gas Sorption Analysis
• Electrokinetic Analysis

• Solution Chemical Analysis
• Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• UV - Visible Light Spectrophotometry

• Wet chemical facilities, including:
• fume hood
• refrigerators
• -70°C freezer

• Electrochemical analysis
• Potentiostat

• Light Microscopy
• Combined transmitted and reflected light microscope
• Stereo microscope
• Image analysis system
• Confocal microscope

• A general purpose laboratory with
• desk top computers
• glove box
• particle sieves
• sonicator
• three slowly rotating diamond saws
• grinding and polishing table

• A fully equipped cell culture facility with:
• Incubators
• Biological hoods
• Laminar flow hoods
• -70°C freezer
• NASA cell culture vessels for studies in simulated microgravity

• Various on campus facilities for in vivo studies

Comments to: Paul Ducheyne -- ducheyne@seas.upenn.edu

last updated December 23, 2002