Support Labs

There are several support labs in the Spectroscopy Village shared labs between I18, B18, I20-scanning and I20-EDE. I08 has an additional support lab due requirements to be in proximity to the beamline for cryogenic specimen preparation.

The shared labs consist of two wet labs (92, 94), one dry "equipment" lab (93) and a characterisation lab (91).

For general enquiries on the Spectroscopy Village labs, please contact your local contact or  Diamond laboratory access

In addition a clean room and a radionuclide lab are available on special request. Please contact Fred Mosselmans about these two labs in the first instance.

The Wet labs have two fume hoods each and a deionised water supply.  There is a selection of basic equipment such as hot plate, balances, calibrated pipettes,  glassware, pestle and mortar, tweezers, spatulas etc. in the labs . A small portable O2-free glove box is also available.

Characterisation Lab 91 is also equipped with: 

• Thermo FT-IR Microscope
• Perkin Elmer UV spectrometer
• Renishaw Raman Microscope
• Zeiss AxioVision Optical Microscope
• Nikon Polarised Microscope

Wet Lab 92 has: 

• Pellet Press
• Dry but solvent tolerant Ar glove box.
• Drying Oven
• Large Centrifuge
• Microbiological Safety cabinet (class 2)
• Vaccuum line in fume hood

Dry "equipment" Lab 93 has space for equipment set-up/testing and :

• Microtome (Training required)
• Tube Furnaces (Please request in advance)
• High Temperature Furnace in Air
• Ball Mill

Wet Lab 94 has:

• Pellet Press
• O2-free but water tolerant glove box