Biomaterials Laboratory

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Data-physics OCA-20 contact angle analyser

The high incidence of infections caused by the use of implanted biomedical devices, including catheters, bone fracture fixation pins and heart valves etc. has a severe impact on human health and health care costs with increased morbidity and mortality.

This facility is to allow you to develop and evaluate new biomaterials and coatings with anti-bacterial properties and to design and evaluate new anti-infective biomedical devices and implants. 

Equipment and facilities

• Advanced coating systems
• Dataphysics OCA-20 contact angle analyser
• QCMD 300 quartz crystal microbalance
• Fluorescence microscopes
• Cell culture and bacterial adhesion test rigs
• Incubators
• Autoclave
• Flow chambers and urine flow systems;
• Dipping device for biofilm adhesion strength assays
• CorrTest Electrochemistry Workstation 
• UV-spectrometer
• Fume cabinet
• Biological safety cabinet