This Materials Science Central Facilities is a group of laboratories that supports a range of materials science teaching and research activities. The teaching laboratories serve many of our students throughout the year and they also host several outreach and summer programs. The research laboratories provide researchers with access to and support in using a number of advanced materials characterization instruments, including a high-resolution scanning electron microscope with EDS and EBSD analytical capabilities, a standard LaB6-based SEM which also has digital image acquisition and EDS capabilities, two transmission electron microscopes for materials and non-materials analyses and a computer-controlled x-ray powder diffractometer. These instruments and their users have the support of a well equipped laboratory for preparing metallographic, SEM and TEM specimens. In addition, the facility has an x-ray radiography system, an acoustic microscope, optical microscopes equipped with digital cameras, a thermal analysis laboratory which includes Perkin-Elmer's DCS 7, TGA 7, DMA 7 and DTA 7 plus a computer laboratory which includes excellent document and image printing capabilities. The facility also offers access to the ICDD-PDF database and the ICSD inorganic crystal structure database. A more complete description of the instrumentation and the services this facility offers is described in the facility's web site at www.matscicf.ucdavis.edu.
| Bioprocess Engineering Laboratories |
