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Composite Materials and Structures Center
The Composite Materials and Structures Center is one of the
largest integrated facilities for polymer and composites research
and development in a non-industrial environment. With $9 million
in equipment, the facility provides processing equipment and
rheological, mechanical, adhesion, and surface evaluation.
The facilities are available to researchers from across campus
and from outside the MSU community. Contact Larry Drzal, drzal@egr.msu.edu,
(517) 353-7759, or visit http://www.egr.msu.edu/cmsc/.
Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction Facilities
Electron Microscopy Facilities include a scanning electron
microscope and a 200kV transmission electron microscope. Microanalytical
characterization is available using energy dispersive x-ray
anaylsis while microcrystallographic analysis can be carried
out using electron back scattering diffraction and/or selected
area electron channeling patterns. The department also has
equipment for X-Ray diffraction. The facilities are available
to researchers from across campus and from outside the MSU
community. For more detailed information visit http://www.chems.msu.edu/resources/analyticalfac.htm.
For access to the facilities and/or additional information,
please contact Prof. Martin Crimp at crimp@egr.msu.edu
or (517) 355-0294.
Protein Expression Laboratory
A Protein Expression Laboratory was funded by the Michigan
Life Sciences Corridor. The mission is to use genetically
engineered microbes to manufacture proteins needed for research.
The lab has two 10-L computer controlled bioreactors and plans
to add a third, 100-L bioreactor in 2003. The facilities are
available to researchers from across campus and from outside
the MSU community. Contact Mark Worden, worden@egr.msu.edu,
(517) 353-9015, or visit http://www.egr.msu.edu/pel/
Biological Wet Laboratory
During 2002-2003, classrooms 2125 and 2135 (approximately
4,000 square feet) were renovated and converted to very high
quality biological wet laboratory space. The adjacent classroom
2150 has been identified for renovation to laboratory space
to complete the new facility. The cost for renovation was
about $1.5 million. This new facility consists of wet lab
space for tissue scaffold fabrication and characterization,
a separate cell culture room for culture, testing and maintenance
of cell lines that currently include osteoblasts, hepatocytes,
neuronal cells and fibroblasts, and a separate Class 10,000
clean room, which will house equipment necessary for biomedical
engineering device fabrication.
Clean, well-controlled, sterile conditions are requisite
for cell and tissue culture experiments. Six separate hoods
are provided in the tissue culture room for specific cultures
including osteoblasts, hepatocytes, fibroblasts and neuronal
cells. The Laboratory will also house equipment necessary
to support the characterization of cellular function such
as an HPLC, an electrokinetic sonic amplitude analyzer, plate
readers, electrophoresis equipment, spectrophotometer, incubators,
autoclave, centrifuges, optical and fluorescence microscopes,
nitrogen storage tank for cell lines, -80ºC freezer,
-20ºC freezer and refrigerators. This equipment is specialized
for cell work and great care will be taken to prevent contamination.
Often experiments run for several weeks and it is vital that
the lab environment be controlled and monitored in order to
collect long-term data. In part to protect our ability to
monitor this lab, security devices were installed that will
enable us to allow only necessary personnel into the lab.
Engineering faculty in collaboration with faculty from the
departments of Physiology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry
and Small Animal Clinical Science/Orthopedics will use these
facilities for their research activities. Contact Melissa
Baumann, mbaumann@egr.msu.edu,
(517) 432-1243, Chris Chan, krischan@egr.msu.edu,
(517) 432-4530.
Ambient and Elevated-Temperature Creep and Fatigue Testing
Within the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, there are 6 creep frames and one state-of-the-art thermomechanical testing machine capable of performing experiments at temperatures up to 1200 C and loads up to 10kN in vacuum (10-8 torr), inert gas, or air environments. The facilities are available to researchers from across campus and from outside the MSU community. Contact Carl Boehlert, boehlert@egr.msu.edu, (517) 353-3703, or visit http://www.egr.msu.edu/~boehlert/GROUP/.
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