Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information

The Centre

• About the Centre
• Facilities
  • Virtual Tour of NSQI
  • Low noise lab
  • Ultra low noise lab
  • Class 1000 (ISO 6) cleanrooms
  • Wet lab
  • Seminar rooms
  • Vibration Recording
  • NSQI @ Langford
• NSQI Research
• Who is using the Centre?
• Who to contact

UoB members

• Using the Centre
• Code of Practice
• ICT User Guide
• NI LabVIEW
• CNT Workshop

Related Activities

• HS-AFM & PFM EPSRC Guided Access
• Wolfson Bioimaging Facility
• Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN)
• Science City Bristol
• Useful links

Wet Lab

The Wet Lab is a true interdisciplinary space, where engineers, physicists, chemist and biochemists rub shoulders. NSQI Centre equipment has been augmented by pieces brought in by resident researchers, these are then made available for general use (under certain conditions) by the NSQI community.

Features

Labs & facilities:

• The Wet lab actually comprises four labs: the main lab space with individual benches, some communal equipment and chemicals; a microscopy lab with two microscopes; a bacterial culture room and a tissue culture room. 

• The main lab comes with all the standard biological and chemical facilities, including mixers, balances, heaters, stirrers, incubators, fridges, freezers, pH meters, ice machine, ovens, a -80 ºC freezer & cryogenic storage, triple distilled water supply, three fumehoods and a glovebox for handling dry nanoparticles.

• The main wet lab area (2.04), bacterial cell culture (2.04A) and the microscope room (2.04B) are designated as biological Containment Level 1 areas. We have two Containment Level 2 labs on site, tissue culture within the wet lab (2.04C) and LG.13 in the basement. Access is restricted to both areas. Both have laminar flowhoods (with an additional fumehood in the basement lab). The Wet lab tissue culture room also has a CO₂ supply for an incubator.

Equipment:

• NSQI equipment -

  • Leica Inverted fluorescence microscope
  • Leica polarising microscope
  • Time-lapse & video capability on both microscopes
  • Spectrum 100 FT/IR
  • UV/vis spectrophotometer
  • Plasma cleaner (Femto model)
  • Vacuum oven
  • IVUM potentiostat
  • Gel running area with Biospectrum UV transluminator and gel-doc system
  • Rotary Evaporator
  • Beckman-Coulter Avanti JE centrifuge
  • SpectraMax Plus – absorbance plate reader
  • SpectraMax Gemini – fluorescence plate reader
  • Cell counter
  • Heated stirrer
  • Shaking incubator

• User-owned equipment -

  • AKTA purifier (belonging to W. Schwarzacher)
  • Ultrasonic probe (belonging to H-X. Peng)
  • High shear mixer (belonging to H-X. Peng)
  • Titrator (belonging to W. Schwarzacher)

Health & Safety

Chemical, biological, nanoparticle, gas and cryogen safety along with information on PPE and waste disposal are available from the Centre's Health and Safety pages.

Booking of equipment

You can check the usage and book slots on the NSQI equipment using the University Calendar.

To access the relevant pages:

1. Log on to Oracle Calendar using the link above and your UoB username and password.
2. Click 'View Agendas' (the icon to the immediate left of your name at the top) and select 'Resources'.
3. Enter the Resource Name as NSQI and then click 'Find'.
4. This should bring up a list of equipment.
5. Select the appropriate item and click 'View'
6. Check the availability of the dates of interest.
7. Click on the time required and add your name and required duration.

For any questions, contact Stuart.Bellamy@bristol.ac.uk.

 

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