Analytical Laboratory

Our analytical laboratory is an integrated research facility that contains a comprehensive set of processing and characterization tools that are readily accessible to users.

We offer a very wide of range testing capabilities and techniques for general and specific materials characterization. Capabilities include analysis in the solid, liquid or gaseous state. Tools and analytical methods can be readily used to probe, measure, and determine the physical and chemical properties of any material, as well as the structure of your material.

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Section Contents

Equipment

User Fees

  • Analytical
    • Vanderbilt personnel hourly rate: $20
    • VUMC, Fisk, TSU and Meharry hourly rate: $20
    • External universities & non-profit partners hourly rate: $22
    • Industry and external for-profit partners hourly rate: $32
  • Professional Services

    VINSE offers staff support for users who wish to use the facilities remotely. VINSE professional staff are able to perform your measurements, imaging, and analysis in your absence for a service fee.

    Professional Staff Hourly Service Fees:

    • Internal: $50
    • External universities & non-profit partners hourly rate: $55
    • Industry and external for-profit partners hourly rate: $80

Facility Details

  • General and Specific Characterization

  • Optical Spectroscopy Analysis

  • Surface Analysis

  • 14 Benchtop Tools

  • Processing

  • Biomaterials Characterization

Our suite of high performance analytical instrumentation facilitates the investigation, with the capabilities for complete chemical and structural characterization, of both individual nanoparticles and bulk materials. This unique combination of materials processing and comprehensive specimen characterization supports the rapid development of novel multifunctional materials, including nanomaterials.

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Demonstration of the thermochromism phenomenon. (Emma Barelsen and Jeb Buchner, Interdisciplinary Materails Science).
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