INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica
Biomaterials Division, Biointerfaces Laboratory
Rua do Campo Alegre, nº 823
4150-180 Porto

The facilities of the Biomaterials Division of INEB include the techniques listed below, which are complemented with those existing at CEMUP - Centro de Materiais da Universidade do Porto and IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular for the advanced study of the physical, chemical and structural characterization of material surfaces and cell-material interactions, down to the microscopic and nanoscopic levels.

Equipment available for research at INEB – Biomaterials Division:

Atomic Absorption (flame and electrothermal atomisation)
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) with Inverted Fluorescence Microscope
AFM with Force spectroscopy and Molecular Recognition
10 and 100 Micron scanners for AFM
Cell culture equipment
Ceramics processing equipment (furnaces, mills, sieves)
Confocal Raman Microscope
Contact Angle and Surface Tension Equipment
Critical Point Dryer
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA)
Electrochemistry equipment
Four-point cyclic bending and rotating beam fatigue equipments
Fourier Transformed Infra-Red Spectroscope (ATR-FTIR, IRRAS)
Freeze Dryer
Gel Permeation/Size Exclusion Chromatographer, with triple detection (GPC/SEC)
Imaging Ellipsometer
Inverted Fluorescence Microscope
Particle size, Zeta Potential and Molecular Weight Equipment with automatic titration
Quartzo Microcrystal Scale
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Spin Coater
Zeta Potential Equipment with automatic titration

Note: This equipment is available to the scientific community and some may be used as part of our rendering services unit (SUIM).

At IBMC (same building):
Confocal Microscopy
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Radioactive labeling facilities
X-rays diffraction
Animal house

In the same campus, at CEMUP (50-100 m distance):
Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray microanalysis (FEG/ESEM/LVSEM/ CryoSEM– EDS EBSD))
Surface analysis by Electron spectroscopy (XPS AES/SEM/SAM)
Scanning Probe Microscope (AFM/MFM/STM)
Solution NMR (200 MHz)

How to have access to the equipment:
To check the availability of the equipment, please contact:

Technician-in-Chief: Manuela Brás
E-mail: info.suim@ineb.up.pt
INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica
Biomaterials Division, Biointerfaces Laboratory
Rua do Campo Alegre, nº 823
4150-180 Porto
Phone: + 351 226 074 983, ext: 2612, Fax: + 351 226 094 567