We have labs at the Imperial College White City campus (Molecular Sciences Research Hub) and at the South Kensington campus (ACEX building). If you would like to use our equipment feel free to get in touch to initiate a collaboration.

Microfluidics & Rapid Prototyping

• Soft lithography station

• Spin coater (Laurell)

• Low-pressure plasma system (Diener)

• PDMS chip fabrication station

• 3D printer (Ultimaker 3)

• 3D bioprinter

• Selection of programmable pressure pumps (Elveflow) and syringe pumps (Harvard)

• Commercial Dolomite microfluidics setup

• Dolomite Mitos Dropix system for droplet sequence production

• Home-built bespoke microfluidics rigs for the production of droplets, liposomes, beads, giant vesicles, mesophase particles, and nanoparticles.

Microscopy & Analytical Instruments

• High-end automated inverted fluorescence microscopes (Nikon)

• Programmable microscopy Peltier heating/cooling stage (-20 °C to 150 °C)

• Confocal microscope (Leica)

• 2x stereoscopes, with fluorescence

• Optical trapping microscope

• Magnetic induction coils for nanoparticle heating (Ambrell)

• Well-plate reader for fluorescence, UV-VIS, FRET, luminescence. With temperature functionality (>60 °C) and gas control for hypoxia studies (Calriostar).

• Electrophysiology rig

Vesicle Preparation Instruments

• Extruders (for SUVs and LUVs)

• Electroformation setup

• Bath sonicator

• Tip sonicator

• Home-built bespoke microfluidic setup for GUV manufacture

General Lab Facilities

• Bacterial cell culture facilities

• Osmometer

• Turbidity meter

• Vacuum ovens

• Lyophiliser

• Selection of lasers, LEDs and irradiation chambers

• 2 x Benchtop centrifuge, temperature-controlled, including rotors for well-plates

Other Equipment with Group Access

• Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC)

• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

• Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS; Malvern)

• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)

• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

• TEM

• Cryo-EM

• Flow cytometer