AMGC - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Lab (ICP-MS lab) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A Neptune Multi-Collector ICP-MS also from Thermo Instrument is available in Ghent university in the framework of a joint purchase/project.
To be competitive we require a low temperature miscroscope and related nanotechnology diagnostics for addressing new programmes on quantum sensing, communication and computing and also quantum sensing by developing entanglement-based techniques as new activity opened by UH scientific works.
L-SCAN combines a low voltage SEM (LV-SEM) which allows for performant operation at acceleration voltages of a few kiloelectronvolts or less in combination with a state-of-the-art X-ray spectrometer
offering light element sensitivity down to the detection and mapping of Li K X-rays (ca. 55 eV). Top quality characterization of air-sensitive materials will be enabled by a specimen transfer vessel to bring samples from its control production environment under inert atmosphere to the analytical chamber of the LV-SEM.
Reactive and conventional extruders require side feeders with powder & liquid supply. To allow for polymer processing temperatures up to 400 °C are needed. Rotation speeds > 1000 rpm are useful. Temperature and pressure control/measurements along the equipment are desired. The envisaged equipment covers these aspects and allows multifunctional processing of several materials.
Since the introduction of confocal microscopy in the ‘80s, advanced light microscopy became indispensable in life science research. The wish to ever see more details has driven new developments in light microscopy. Although, the laws of physics predicted a fundamental limit to the maximal achievable optical resolution, Dr. Stephan Hell was one of the first to realize that this limit might not be as unsurpassable as it was believed to be. Thanks to advances in fluorescent labels and laser technology, he and others demonstrated that it was possible to visualize beyond the resolution limit of ...
NECROPOLIS UNITED is developing an integrated, sustainable, non-extractive and open-source database that inventories reported dead refugees in Europe. It is integrating and updating source data from three different databases, each providing a fragmented dataset, with specific metadata: the list compiled by UNITED Against Racism (data from 44,764 reported deaths, period 1993-2021), the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) of the IOM (International Organization for Migration) (more than 35,000 reported deaths, as of 2013) and the Deaths at the Border Database (DBD) developed within a completed ...
The SCIEX ZenoTOF 7600 mass spectrometer includes a new fragmentation method, being Electron-Activated Dissociation (EAD). For proteome analysis, fragmentation of peptides, protein fragments and intact proteins is essential to identify these biomolecules.
Among other things, the Gevaert lab (https://cmb.vib.be/labs/gevaert-lab) investigates the amino-(N)terminal parts of proteins via a specialized proteomic technique, being N-terminomics. The identity and modifications of the N-termini of proteins determine, among other things, the stability, localization and collection of ...
The discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo marked the beginning of new era in observing our universe and scientists are keen to fully open up this new window to the (dark side of the) cosmos.
ET will detect several hundred thousand gravitational wave signals per year and allow us listen to the sound of merging black holes across the entire universe. For the first time, researchers will be able to study the precise structure of neutron stars, the birth of black holes and the structure of the universe ...