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We have several state-of-the-art research facilities operated by people with the requisite technical expertise. We will process your samples and give you high-quality output to take your research to the next level.

You can see below a list of some of the instruments available at IISER Pune. Write to skills@iiserpune.ac.in for availing any of these facilities for your experimental measurements and analyses.

Some of the instruments available at IISER Pune:

  • Infrared Image furnace for single-crystal growth of oxides and intermetallics
    Temperatures up to 2400 oC, Pressure up to 10 bar, Vacuum down to ~ 10-5 mbar Crystal growth under Ar, O2 and Ar/O2 mixtures
  • Physical Property Measurement System
    For measurement of electrical transport, thermal transport, and magnetisation.
  • Magnetic Properties Measurement System
    For sensitive measurements of Ac and Dc magnetization up to 7 Tesla magnetic field.
  • Powder X-ray Diffractometer
    For x-ray diffraction up to 1300 degrees.
  • Single Crystal Laue Diffractometer
  • State-of-the-art, commercial (Omicron) ultra high vacuum (UHV) scanning tunnelling microscope (STM)
    Capable of operating at low temperature (LT), (77 K and 4.2 K) and room temperature (300 K). The UHV-LT-STM and can be used for imaging, tunnelling spectroscopy, and single atom and single molecule manipulation on conducting samples.
  • Commercial (Nanosurf) STM operating in ambient environment (at room temperature and in air)
  • Commercial (Nanosurf) Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) operating in ambient environment (at room temperature and in air)
    For imaging of conducting as well as insulating samples.
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Machines
    Bruker ADVANCE III HD ASCEND 14.1 Tesla/600 MHz
    Bruker ULTRASHIELD WB 11.7 Tesla/500 MHz
    Bruker AVANCE III HD ASCEND 9.4 Tesla/400 MHz with Autosampler
    Jeol 9.4 Tesla/400 MHz with Autosampler
  • Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer (SCXRD)
    For three dimensional structure solution from single crystals. Instruments are equipped with state-of-the-art intense microfocus X-ray sources (Cu and Mo radiation) and latest CMOS based area detector. Crystal temperature control from 100K to 500K.
  • UPLC-HRMS
    For high resolution liquid chromatographic separation and high resolution mass spectrometry. Equipped with Ion mobility mode for structural analysis.
  • MALDI-TOF-TOF
    MS-MS studies on lipids, carbohydrates and synthetic polymers etc.
  • HPLC
    High resolution liquid chromatographic separation
  • DSC-TGA-DTA
    Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Thermal Gravimetric Analysis, Differential Thermal Analysis
  • Particle Size Analyser
    Measurement of particle sizes using dynamic light scattering
  • Adsorption measurements
    Specific surface area, pore size distribution, vapor adsorption and chemisorption (OP) can be measured.
  • CHNS analyser
    Determination of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Sulphur in organic matrices or other materials.

We also offer expert technical services for carrying out Next Generation Sequencing and High Throughput Bioinformatics Analysis of your samples / data sets.
 
Write to skills@iiserpune.ac.in for availing any of these facilities for your experimental measurements and analyses.