Pisa Instruments

The main instruments available at the Pisa Secondary Site and the reference laboratories or researcher are listed below.

CHROMATOGRAPHY

2 ThermoFinnigan HPLC systems with gradient pump (P2000 and P4000), UV-Visible Diode Array detector (UV6000) and fluorescence detector (FL3000,) and microbore HPLC pumps (Jasco) for inline derivatization (IAC Lab).
Gas chromatograph CG / MS coupled with 5975C MSD (Agilent Technologies) mass detector (IAC Lab).
Agilent Technologies 1260 Infinity GPC with Refractive Index Detector (PMC Lab).
Prototype of dynamic surface tension detector (DSTD) for the analysis of water-soluble surfactants, proteins and polymers by flow injection (FIA) and HPLC techniques (IAC Lab).
Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC (G1311B quaternary pump) equipped with Infinity High Performance Degasser, Agilent UV DAD / vis diode array (1260 DAD G4212B) and fluorimetric detector (IAC Lab).
HPLC Agilent 1260 Infinity (quaternary pump G1311B) equipped with Infinity High Performance Degasser, coupled to ICP MS series 7700 Agilent Technologies for metals and organometallic compounds speciation (ABC-Lab).
DIONEX Ionic Chromatograph with quaternary pump, electrochemical conductivity detector and UV/Vis detector for the analysis of anions, cations and Cr(VI) (ABC-Lab).

THERMAL, CALORIMERIC AND THERMOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS (PMC Lab)

MODIFICATION OF MATERIALS (PMC Lab)

SYNTHESIS OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS

Reactor for the evaporation of metals with the “Metal Vapor Synthesis” technique (ADCA01M) equipped with two evaporation sources (C. Evangelisti)

OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY

Perkin Elmer Spectrum 100 FTIR spectrophotometer equipped with ATRU and Perkin Elmer Frontiers (ABC-Lab)
FT-IR spectrophotometer ATR Spectrum two Perkin Elmer (PMC-Lab)
UV-Visible Lambda 25 spectrophotometer Perkin Elmer (ABC-Lab)
Moravian Multispectral Camera for UV / Vis / IR imaging (ALS-Lab)
FTIR microspectrometer (ALS-Lab) Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System (ALS-Lab)
Perkin Elmer Spectrum Two FT-IR spectrophotometer equipped with ATR accessory (PMC-Lab)
Jasco V-750 UV-Vis spectrophotometer equipped with integrating sphere (PMC-Lab)

MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIES (MARS Lab)

Bruker Avance NEO 500 spectrometer (500 MHz Larmor 1H frequency) equipped with 4 CP-MAS double / triple resonance probes for solids (rotor diameters 1.3 mm, 2.5 mm, 3.2 mm, 4.0 mm), including a fast-MAS ( 70 kHz), one for low-γ cores and one for semi-solids (HR-MAS), capable of operating between -50 ° C and 80 ° C (@ CISUP / DCCI UNIPI)
Varian InfinityPlus 400 spectrometer (400 MHz Larmor 1H frequency) equipped with 2 CP-MAS double resonance probes for solids (rotor diameters 3.2 mm and 7.5 mm) and 1 static goniometric probe (@ DCCI-UNIPI)
Stelar Spinmaster FFC-2000 Fast Field-Cycling NMR relaxometer, operating at Larmor 1H frequency ranging from 0.01 to 40 MHz) in the temperature range between -140 ° C and 110 ° C (@CNR)
Relaxometer consisting of a Lodge magnet (Larmor 1H frequency of 20.7 MHz) interfaced with PCNMR console, capable of operating between -50 ° C and 90 ° C (@CNR).

RAMAN AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES

Renishaw inVia Raman spectrometer (three laser lines + mapping) (ALS-Lab)
B&W iRaman + portable Raman spectrometer (ALS-Lab)
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Spectrometer (ALS-Lab)
Mobile LIBS spectrometer Marwan Modì + mapping (ALS-Lab)
Bruker Elio portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer (ALS-Lab)
1 prototype atomic fluorescence spectrometer (AFS) with chemical or photochemical generation of vapors (CVG), with flow injection (FIA) or coupling with HPLC (ABC-Lab)
Horiba FluoroMaxPLUS-TCSPC (PMC-Lab) spectrofluorimeter acquired as part of the “FELIX” project “Integrated photonics and electronics for industry” co-funded by the POR FESR Tuscany 2014-2020. Line of Action 1.5.1
Perkin Elmer LS45 Spectrofluorimeter (ABC-Lab)
Multispectral camera Chroma C4 (450 nm, 550 nm, 600 nm, 1050 nm) (ALS-Lab)

CALCULATION CLUSTER (ThC2-Lab)

SoBaSV cluster (440 cores + 30 TB of disk space)
- 4 nodes / 128 cores 2.10 GHz Intel® Xeon® Silver 4216 CPU, 128 GB RAM, 1 TB SATA HD (Vanz1-4)
- 4 nodes / 112 cores Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v4 CPU at 2.40 GHz, 128 GB of RAM, 2 TB SATA HD (Lot1-4)
- 4 nodes / 64 cores Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2640 v3 CPU at 2.60 GHz, 128 GB of RAM, 2 TB SATA HD (Baleno5-8)
- 4 nodes / 64 cores Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 CPU at 2.60 GHz, 128 GB of RAM, 2 TB SATA HD (Baleno1-4)
- 6 nodes / 72 cores Intel® Xeon® CPU E5650 2.67 GHz CPU, 48 GB RAM, 250 GB SATA HD (Sun)
MODULE Cluster
- 16 nodes / 128 Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2380 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 250 GB SATA HD
GROWTH Cluster
- 12 nodes / 96 CPU AMD Opteron 2354 processor, 16 GB of RAM, 250 GB SATA HD
- 4 nodes / 16 CPUs AMD Opteron 265 processor, 8 GB of RAM, 250 GB SATA HD
FORM and NEWGROWTH clusters
- 16 nodes / 128 Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2380 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 250GB SATA HD – InfiniBand connection
- 4 Nodes / 16 × 2 cores – 2 Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz – 256 GB RAM – 200GB SATA HD + 4 Nodes / 26 × 2 cores – 2 Intel (R) Xeon (R) Gold 6230R CPU @ 2.10GHz – 192 GB RAM – 100GB SSD + 3 Storage Areas 3.5 TB SATA HD – InfiniBand Connection

OTHER INSTRUMENTS

Varian E112 X-band EPR spectrometer equipped with CW and pulsed accessories for ENDOR and LOMENDOR (MaRS-Lab).
MW FKV Milestone StartD Digester with temperature control (ABC-Lab)
Eppendorf 5804R Centrifuge and freeze dryer (ABC-Lab)
Drone for aerial photogrammetric 3D reconstructions (ALS-Lab)
Generation of hydrides coupled to AAS Perkin Elmer 2380 spectrometer (ABC-Lab)
Perkin Elmer Optima 8000 ICP OES spectrometer (ABC-Lab)
Direct mercury analyzer (DMA 80, Milestone) (ABC-Lab)
ICP MS 7700 Series Agilent Technologies (ABC-Lab)

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