Here are just a few of the many tools that the Martin Research Group uses to characterize and develop polymer systems and to investigate interactions between novel polymer biomaterials and living cells and tissues.
Low
Voltage Electron Microscope
Nikon
Optiphot2-POL Optical Microscope and Spot CCD camera
Accelrys
Molecular Modeling Software
Scanning Electron
Microscopes (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM), Nanoindentor, Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM), SEM equipped with Focused Ion Beam (FIB), and Xray
Photometric Spectroscopy (XPS) at the University of Michigan Electron
Microscope Analysis Laboratory (EMAL).
Fluorescence microscopy,
real-time/time-lapse microscopy, laser scanning confocal microscopy, and TEM
at the University of Michigan Microcopy
and Image Analysis Laboratory (MIL).
Tissue preparation/sectioning,
cryostat, microtome, and vibratome at the University of Michigan Organogenesis
Morphology Core.
Autolab for Electrical
Impedance Spectrocopy, Cyclic Voltammetry, and Electrochemical polymerization
procedures.
