Main Equipment Available (January 2009)

1. Equipment funded by national Programme of Scientific  Re-equipment (PNRC – FCT – POCI 2010) 

• Dyode array spectrophotometer with fluorescence (more info)

• Elisa plate reader with fluorescence  (more info)

• Flash point CC tester (more info)

• Freeze dryer (more info)

• Ignition quality tester (more info)

• Image acquisition for gel analysis (more info)

• Microbalance system  (more info)

• Thermal dessorption unit   (more info)

2. Other

• AAS analyser

• AOX Analyser

• Autoclave (bench)

• Combustion calorimeter 

• Contact Angle/Surface Energy

• Corrosion assessment device (copper blades)

• Deep Freezer (-80 ºC) 

• DGGE system + image acquisition system 

• Epifluorescence Microscope (transmission and reflection)

• Gas Chromatograph with Electron Capture Detector

• Gas chromatograph with Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry

• High pressure reactor

• Horizontal Electrophoresis system

• HPLC with dyode array detector

• HPLC with fluorescence detection

• HPLC with flurescence detection + autosampler

• HPLC with UV/Vis detector + on line degasser

• Karl Fischer coulometric titrator

• Liquid Chromatograph with mass Spectrometric Detection

• Magnetic Suspension Balance (deactivated)

• Microbalance 0.1 mg

• Microwave for analytical extraction (2x)

• NOx continuous analyser

• Ozone continuous analyser

• Photometer (molecular absorption analyser)

• Refrigerated Bench Centrifuge

• Refrigerated incubator with orbital rotors

• Rotary evaporator (3x)

• Shredder

• Size reduction mills

• Solar Simulator

• Solids Carbon Analyser

• SPME unit

• Spray drier

• Suspended particles continuous analyser

• TG/DTA/TMA 

• TGA (Thermog-Gravimetric Analysis) 

• Thermocycler PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)

• UV/VIS Spectrophotometer

• VOC continuous analyser

1. Electronic Microscopes (SEM, AFM, ESEM) - with the Center for Materials and Microscopy (CEMMUP) of the University of Porto

2. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope - with the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) of the University of Porto

3. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) - with the Chemistry Center, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto