By Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
Partnered with MCN, Swinburne University of Technology provides open-access to its Biointerface Engineering Hub which is focused on modifying the surface of materials and devices to control the behaviour or proteins, bacteria and cells. With expertise in plasma polymerisation, spin coating, self-assembly processes and photolithography, the Hub features a wide range of capabilities that are valuable for applications such as implantable devices as well as biosensing. Equipment The hub features a range of instrumentation, including but not limited to: - Plasma polymerisation with six custom-made reactors, able to etch, treat and deposit surfaces - Langmuir blodgett surface coatings and analysis - Multi vessel dip coating can dip up to 10 samples simultaneously and create layer-by-layer coatings from polyelectrolytes - Dip-pen nanolithography, able to write molecules directly onto surfaces while also integrating with photolithography processes - Quartz crystal microbalance for the kinetic studies of thin film formation and protein and drug interactions
