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Instrument Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n

Category I: Materials Synthesis and Manufacture<\/h3>\n

Instruments used for simple chemical synthesis, ceramic sintering, heat treatment, press, monomer infiltration and polymerization.<\/p>\n

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  1. Wet chemistry: Glassware, vacuum desiccator, magnetic stirrer, hotplate, pH meter\/ion analyzer, glassware, filter, refrigerator, microwave, thermal couple meter, thermometer, vacuum gauge, UV light source, desiccator, vacuum desiccator.<\/li>\n
  2. Furnaces: 5\u00d7 Dental ceramic vacuum furnace (up to 1200o<\/sup>C), 2\u00d7 Thermolyne tube furnace (800-1700o<\/sup>C), 4\u00d7 Vulcan box furnace (50-1100 o<\/sup>C), 2\u00d7 Vita Zirconia furnace (1300- 1600o<\/sup>C), 2 Thermolyne regular furnace (100-1093 o<\/sup>C, one in X building), Zircar (500-1600o<\/sup>C)<\/li>\n
  3. Ovens: Incubator (37o<\/sup>C), General oven (RT-160o<\/sup>C), burn out oven (200-500o<\/sup>C), 2\u00d7 VWR vacuum oven.<\/li>\n
  4. Isopress: 1\u00d7 50 ton, and 2\u00d7 12 ton hydraulic press units<\/li>\n
  5. Resin infiltration: 0.4 Torr vacuum, ~200 mL infiltration volume<\/li>\n
  6. Light curing unit: UV light curing, Blue light curing unit, pressurized curing pot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Category II: Materials Processing<\/h3>\n

    Instruments used to process raw materials for research use via physical processes.<\/p>\n

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    1. Polishing machine: Buehler EcoMet 250\/AutoMet 250; RedWing; Model trimmer<\/li>\n
    2. Wear machine: motor driven 2- and 3-body brushing wear tester<\/li>\n
    3. Fatigue machine: pneumatically driven, 8 single unit medium (\u00d77.86), 2 large five unit assembly (\u00d7 21.84), 2 medium five unit assembly (\u00d77.86) and 2 X-small five unit assembly (\u00d7 1.364).<\/li>\n
    4. Sectioning machine: Buehler Isomet 5000 linear precision saw, 11-180 low speed saw, with diamond blade.<\/li>\n
    5. Sonicator: 4\u00d7 Ultrasonicator bath, 2\u00d7 Ultrasonicator probe processor<\/li>\n
    6. Bur cutting tester: home made by Pober.<\/li>\n
    7. Dental material processer: Light curing unit, 8x, hand piece station, Allure Bleach light station, Oral plasma generator, denture pressurized curing oven<\/li>\n
    8. CAD\/CAM: Object scanner (Eos, Eos Blue, Omni, Blue light, Lava Chairside Oral scanner), Milling machine (Sorina inLab MC XL, inLab MC, CEREC MC XL, inLab, CEREC 3)<\/li>\n
    9. Separation: bench-top centrifuge<\/li>\n
    10. Mixer: motor mixer, Rotary mixer<\/li>\n
    11. Thermocycling machine: lab-made<\/li>\n
    12. Sandblaster machine: PrepStar, Renfer Basic sand blaster<\/li>\n
    13. Ball milling machine: Jar miller<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Category III: Physical properties analysis<\/h3>\n

      Instruments used to test physical properties of materials and output data.<\/p>\n

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      1. Microstructure imaging: Field emission electron microscope (FESEM) with energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), Optical microscope including stereomicroscope, metallurgical polarized microscope, phase contrast microscope (at X lab), bright field microscope.<\/li>\n
      2. Mechanical tester: Universal Mechanical Testing Machine, Microhardness tester<\/li>\n
      3. Color testing: Colorimeter, i5 Spectrophotometer, Digital shade guide (Vita Easyshade, Vita Easyshade Compact), Viewing booth, Gloss meter.<\/li>\n
      4. Spectrometer: FTIR spectrometer, i5 spectrophotometer.<\/li>\n
      5. Weight measurement: Balance, Scale.<\/li>\n
      6. Dimension measurement: Micrometer, Caliper, Profilometer.<\/li>\n
      7. Other physical properties tester: Radiometer, tachometer, multimeter (Volt-Ohm meter), digital camera.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Category IV: Tissue culture instruments<\/h3>\n

        Instruments used to perform cell culture, cell biology and molecular biology assay.<\/p>\n

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        1. Cell culture essential equipment: Class IIA\/B3 biological safety cabinet, autoclave, CO2 controlled incubator, liquid nitrogen dewer, water bath, -80\u00b0 C freezer, -20\u00b0 C freezer, 4\u00b0 C refrigerator, tissue culture centrifuge, electronic cell counter.<\/li>\n
        2. Bio Lab instrument: Water ultra-purification system, high speed centrifuge, low speed shaker, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, UV transilluminator, balance, pH meter, and stirrer.<\/li>\n
        3. Microscopes: Tissue culture inverted microscope, reflected-light differential interference contrast microscope, bright light microscope.<\/li>\n
        4. Molecular biology: Electrophoretic gel system, Bio-Rad power supply, electrophorectic systems, pressure blotter, slot-blot apparatus, PCR machine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Category V: Machining Tools<\/h3>\n

          Instruments used to cut, trim, or drill hard materials into desired geometry. Please note most machinery requires special training and students are not allowed to operate for safety reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine, Compact 5 (EMCO Maier, Austria)<\/li>\n
          2. Unimat lathe (EMCO Maier, Austria)<\/li>\n
          3. Drill press, milling machine, band saw, biopsy saw, air abrasion units, casting machines,<\/li>\n
          4. Gypsum trimmers, disc saw cutter.<\/li>\n
          5. Soldering machine: Soldering station, Thermal couple welder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Instrument Overview Category I: Materials Synthesis and Manufacture Instruments used for simple chemical synthesis, ceramic sintering, heat treatment, press, monomer infiltration and polymerization. Wet chemistry: Glassware, vacuum desiccator, magnetic stirrer, hotplate, pH meter\/ion analyzer, glassware, filter, refrigerator, microwave, thermal couple meter, thermometer, vacuum gauge, UV light source, desiccator, vacuum desiccator. Furnaces: 5\u00d7 Dental ceramic vacuum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10461,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/66"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/yuweifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}