Participating Shared Facilities

Analytical Lab, Marine Science Institute

The MSI Analytical Lab offers comprehensive analytical services including seawater nutrient analysis; elemental carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen (CHN) analysis; and stable isotope analysis of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.

Facility Link: UCSB Marine Science Institute
Location: Bldg 520

CNSI Facilities – Innovation Workshop, Quantum Structures Facility (QSF), Biological Nanostructures Laboratory

Innovation Workshop: The CNSI Innovation Workshop – a makerspace facility – enables its users to build and test prototypes of their inventions. The Workshop fills a vital gap in campus resources: a place where UCSB researchers and employees from local companies can fabricate and test their ideas with the support of experienced staff.

Facility Link: Innovation | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings

Biological Nanostructures Laboratory: The BNL provides access to complex, high value instrumentation to support and enhance interdisciplinary research at the interface of life science and engineering, and scientific expertise in the theory, operation, and analysis of data generated from such instruments.

Facility Link: Biological Nanostructures Laboratory | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings

Quantum Structures Facility (QSF): Formerly known as the CNSI Nanostructures Cleanroom Facility (NCF), the Quantum Structures Facility (QSF) features cleanroom-based tool sets and processes that complement research in quantum materials and devices enabling unique capabilities in the pursuit of controlling and manipulating materials at the nanoscale.

Facility Link: Quantum Structures Facility (QSF) | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings

Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering

The mission of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering at UC Santa Barbara is to foster an interdisciplinary program of stem cell research and teaching to develop new technologies in the field of regenerative medicine. To accomplish these goals the Center is home to research efforts in three areas: Molecular Mechanisms of stem cell pluripotency, proliferation, and differentiation; Biotechnology and Bioengineering of stem cell fate, sorting and delivery; and Regenerative Medicine to translate discoveries to the clinic.

Facility Link: Overview | William K. Bowes Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
Location: Bio2

Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry Lab

This Plasma facility enables LASS (laser ablation split-stream) analysis: simultaneous geochronology and trace-element geochemistry with 10-50 micron spatial resolution.

Facility Link: Preston Cloud Lab - UC Santa Barbara
Location: Cloud Lab

NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility

Founded in 1990, is jointly maintained by the Neuroscience Research Institute and the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  The Facility’s mission is to promote microscopy education and facilitate microscopy in research for research groups campuswide. To achieve this mission the Facility houses state-of-the-art instruments, supports expert full-time support staff and provides individual, course and workshop based training in microscopy.

Facility Link: NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility | UC Santa Barbara
Location: Bio2

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the analysis of molecular structure and function. Its familiar application in the public domain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), is widely used in macroscopic tissue and organ imaging for disease diagnosis or functional studies. The NMR Facility at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is home to five high-resolution, solution-state NMR spectrometers

Facility Link: NMR Facility, UCSB Chem and Biochem
Location: PSBN

Polymer Facility

With equipment for the synthesis of polymers, and monomers (Schlenk lines) as well as polymer analysis equipment: TA Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) Q2000 temp. -150 °C to 400 °C, (check thermal stability of your sample by TGA) Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) using chloroform with 0.25% TEA as a solvent (Analytical and Preparative), GPC using DMF with 0.1% of LiBr as a solvent, Two Microwave Reactors (Biotage and CEM), Two Rheometers (with the oven and the water bath), Wyatt DynaPro NanoStar DLS, Nano ITC (Isothermal Titration Calorimeter), and Gas Chromatograph (GC).

Facility Link: Overview | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL

Research Computing and Data (RCD) Presentation

A presentation on resources offered by the Center for Scientific Computing and General Research IT (GRIT).

Location: Elings

Spectroscopy Facility

The Spectroscopy facility of Materials Research Laboratory is the home to the state-of-the-art magnetic resonance instruments in solution NMR, solid-state NMR, MRI, Rheo-NMR, PFG-Diffusion, DNP-NMR, and EPR. Applications range from structure determination, imaging, dynamics/kinetics monitoring, to physical property measurement of a variety of sample systems from inorganic, organic, biological, to their hybrids, and from small molecules to macromolecules like proteins and polymers.

Facility Link: Overview | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL

TEMPO Facility

The MRL TEMPO Laboratory has advanced instrumentation for the characterization of materials and chemical samples. A wide range of instrumentation is available for Thermal, Electronic/Elemental, Magnetic, Porosity, and Optical measurements.

Facility Link: Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL

Terahertz Facility

The Terahertz Facility of the Institute of Terahertz Science and Technology (ITST) offers a wide range of one-of-a-kind and state of the art instrumentations. The instrumental capabilities commonly rely on radiation frequencies at the heart of the electromagnetic spectrum in the terahertz (THz) and sub-terahertz range. 

Facility Link: Terahertz User Facilities | ITST
Location: Broida

X-Ray Facility

The MRL X-ray Facility provides state-of-the-art x-ray diffraction tools for characterizing structural properties of a wide range of materials including metals and composites, polymers and biological materials, and electronic and optoelectronic materials in the length scale range of 0.1 nm - 100 nm.

Facility Link: Welcome to the X-Ray Facility | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL