Facilities

The Triangle MRSEC operates facilities dedicated to the study and development of the programmed assembly of soft matter. Center affiliates also have access to each of the facilities below at rates posted on the facility's website.

Duke

MRSEC Soft Matter Lab

Duke’s MRSEC Soft Matter Lab contains instrumentation for synthesis of colloids and syntactomers and for characterization of their assemblies. These include capacity for synthesis and purification of recombinant biopolymers, microfluidic production of colloids, high throughput production of nanoparticles.

SMIF 

Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) includes advanced characterization facilities and clean rooms for analysis and fabrication of advanced materials and devices. 

Small Molecule Synthesis Facility

Small Molecule Synthesis Facility provides synthetic organic chemistry capabilities including custom synthesis of linkers, monomers and initiators.

North Carolina Central University

BRITE

The Center for Biomanufacturing Research Institute & Technology Enterprise (BRITE) is a new state-of-the-art facility for biomolecular research, recombinant synthesis, purification and characterization of biopolymers.

North Carolina State University

NC State Soft Matter Computational Resource

NC State Soft Matter Computational resource is a state of the art high performance computational cluster with quad core processes and distributed memory stationed at NCSU HPC center.

AIF

Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) operates and maintains and develops state-of-the-art materials analysis instruments. 

NNF

Nanofabrication Facility (NNF) provides users with a broad range of nanofabrication and houses all standard thin film processing tools.

HPC

High Performance Computing (HPC) facility offers a number of high quality services to support materials research with high-end computational hardware and software packages. 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

CHANL

Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory (CHANL) houses facilities for materials characterization and a versatile suite of instrumentation for micro and nanofabrication.

CISMM

Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM) offers custom 3D force microscopy systems; electron, fluorescence and atomic force microscopes; nanoparticle synthesis; and facilities for graphics and virtual reality display.