The Georgia Tech Biocleanroom has five areas of specialization. For more application examples for each specialty click on each section's image.

Imaging

• Step height measurements
• Surface Roughness 
• Biological Sample Characterization
• Imaging of hydrated biogels
• Cell imaging
• Image semi-conductive or insulating materials

Spectroscopy

• Determine absorbance and transmission peaks for characterization
• Determine concentrations (metal ions in dispersant)
• Perform polymer and organic chemical analysis by FTIR Spectroscopy
• Investigate molecular structure (carbon double bonds, carbon chain information, etc.)
• Forensic Analysis
• Bond characterizations

Printing and Fabrication

• Useful for fabricating high precision devices e.g. microlenses
• Non-clogging micro-porous SU-8 filters
• Targeted drug delivery systems
• Fabrication of cell scaffolding to promote cell adhesion
• Manufacturing fractal-like architectures to attain various mechanical properties
• Allows for printing of arrays

Soft Materials and Bio-Technologies

• Perform sophisticated bio-analytical interaction experiments
• Can use SPR to increase sensitivity to Spectroscopic measurements
• Measure kinetics of polymer bonds
• Monitor sequential binding events in compounds
• Quantifiable methods to measure surface energy and surface tension
• Particle size, zeta potential, molecular weight, and concentration measurements

Thermal Analysis

• Widely used to measure polymeric materials to determine their thermal transitions. Important thermal transitions include the glass transition temperature, crystallization temperature, and melting temperature
• Measurement of small energy changes as a result of the matter transitions that occur during the solid to liquid crystal transitions. Can be used to characterize liquid crystals
• DSC and heat flow data are used to measure oxidative properties of materials as the phase transition from a material to the oxidized state will be recorded as heat flow baseline aberrations
• As TGA measurements commence, sample byproducts will be incinerated/evaporated, these byproducts can be characterized by the FTIR via the TGA/FTIR adapter