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Shared Research Facilities

Mission

West Virginia University Shared Research Facilities offer high-technology research instrumentation to WVU faculty, staff and students; as well as to other researchers within academia and the public and private sectors. Our experts can either train you to operate the instruments or run samples for you, at reasonable hourly rates. We welcome you to take advantage of any or all of our four facilities.

Resources

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Areas of Focus

  • BioNano Research Facilities (BNRF) include a Thermofisher Q Exactive Mass Spectrometer with Orbitrap, useful for drug discovery, proteomics, environmental and food safety, clinical research and forensic toxicology. Additionally, BNRF offers two inverted fluorescent microscopes with and without a camera, a synchronized video fluorescent microscope, and 1-D and 2-D electrophoresis systems with a CHEMIDOC MP imaging system. BNRF also offers BioPharma Finder Mass Informatics software for protein characterization.Cleanroom Facilities include two locations.
  • The Cleanroom Facilities located Evansdale, are designed for fabricating electrical and photonic devices. There are 2,100 square feet of clean space, including class 100, class 1,000 and two class 10,000 rooms with photo- and e-beam lithography, wet-chemical processing, metallization and deposition, reactive ion etching, thermal processing and sample packaging. The Cleanroom Facilities located Downtown consist of one class 1,000 room and one class 10,000 room with photolithography, deposition, MBE and wafer dicing capabilities.
  • Materials Characterization Facilities are available on both the Evansdale and the Downtown Campus. The collection includes three XRD instruments with separate configurations, an XPS, a Raman Spectrometer, FTIR, a white light ellipsometer, two AFMs, an optical profiler and a confocal microscope. The instruments elucidate the proportion and locations of atoms that make up molecules of various materials such as rock cores, batteries, sensors and photovoltaic cells.
  • Electron Microscope Facilities are located on the Evansdale area of campus. The facilities allow structural analyses of different materials from bulk samples to biologicals. Major instruments include two scanning electron microscopes to magnify samples from 25X to 1,000,000X and a transmission electron microscopy to magnify samples from 2,000X to 1,500,000X. A precision polishing system, substrate dicing saw, CO2 critical point dryer, ultramicrotome ultracut E, metallurgical microscope and Denton Desk V sputter are used to prepare samples on-site.
  • The West Virginia University Microscope Imaging Facility (MIF) supports various research endeavors and is well-equipped to support various research endeavors for both internal and external collaborations. WVU MIF houses multiple optical and fluorescent microscopes, including an Olympus VS120 Slide Scanner and the Nikon A1R Confocal Microscope with an N-SIM E super-resolution platform. The Animal Models and Imaging Facility (AMIF) provides additional resources useful for a broad range of applications, including a Vevo 2100 micro-ultrasound, SkyScan 1272 micro-CT, and XenX irradiator.

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