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DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Bio Materials Lab

We offer a wide variety of bio-nanofabrication and materials characterization facilities available in the Biomaterials Lab (IST, Islamabad) for students, faculty, and professionals outside of IST. Our services include the following:

  • Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing and Electrospinning)
  • Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD)
  • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
  • Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area analyzer (BET)
  • Nanoindentation
  • UV-Vis Spectroscopy
  • Adhesion Testing of coatings
  • Wettability (Water/Ethanol/Body Fluid Contact Angle Measurement)
  • Profilometry (Surface Roughness)
  • Scratch tester
  • Corrosion and Wear tests
  • Biological characterization (Antibacterial Tests, CAM Assay, Bioactivity, Biodegradation, Drug Release, Protein Adsorption, etc.)
  • Room temperature and subzero (-80°C) storage facilities
  • Incubators and Centrifuges
Other facilities, including SEM/EDX, XRD, AFM, Hardness testing, Tensile test, Particle size analysis, Furnaces, etc., are also available at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IST.