⇓Expertise: Organic-inorganic hybrid materials; sol-gel chemistry; nanofibers; nanocrystalline polysaccharide materials; adsorption processes at interfaces; inorganic nanoparticles in polysaccharide shells; multi parameter surface plasmon resonance; small and wide angle X-ray diffraction; thin films; non-classic polysaccharide materials.

⇓Equipment: • Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D); Q-Sense
• Electrospinning apparatus using rotating drums with different electrode geometries, El Marco
• AFM Agilent 550
• Scanning electron microscope Fesem Supra 35VP
• KS 300 Rel. 3.0. image processing and analyses
• Optical microscope Carl Zeiss; Oxford Ins. EDX
• TOC TN-2100 Jena Analitic; Perkin Elmer spectrum GX FT-IR with Raman attachment and
   microscope
• Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer
• Wide Angle WAXS and Small Angle SAXS X-ray Apparatus
• Titrators DL 35; Particle Charge Detector; Electrokinetic Analyzer
• UV/Vis spectrophotometer
• Franz cells
• Tensiometer K12
• Goniometer OCA 35
• Spin coater Polos
• Martindale Abrasion and Pilling tester
• Lenzing Dynamometer; Electronic Dynamometer
• Apparatus for determination of water vapor and air permeability
• Apparatus for LOI index determination
• Heraeus Xenotest
• Datacolor Spectra Flash SF 600 Plus
• Perkin Elmer Lambda 900
• PELA 1020; Minolta- CM 512m3
• Fungilab viscometer
• Access to Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, XPS, TEM