Shared Facilities

Facility Director: Prof. Stephen J. Eyles (eyles@polysci.umass.edu)
The Mass Spectrometry Facility was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between the Departments of Polymer Science & Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Over the years the facility has been augmented significantly by contributions from MRSEC, external funding agencies (NSF, NIH), and equipment donations by […]

High resolution field emission cold cathode scanning electron microscope with semi-in-lens detector configuration achieving resolution down to 2 nm. It is equipped with BE (backscattered) detector and thin window energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) from Princeton Gamma-Tech for compositional analysis, imaging and mapping. Fully digital image acquisition.

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center operates eleven Central Facilities as Shared Experimental Facilities, each being key to the efficient and timely execution of the research and education programs. Ten of these facilities are currently operational and upgrades to these facilities are underway and outlined below. A Shared Facility on Nanoscience has recently been […]