• Question: What devices, objects and substances are used in your job?

    Asked by _Bavzzz1256 to Valerie, Steve, Sean, Kath, Carmel, Alex on 8 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Alex Moldovan

      Alex Moldovan answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I use a large range of equipment:

      Scanning Electron Microscopes
      Optical Microscopes
      Atomic Force Microscopes
      Crystallisation Reactors
      Differential Scanning Calorimeters
      X-ray Diffractometers
      X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer
      [ALL THE TOYS]

      Substance-wise :
      Too many to name 😐

    • Photo: Stephen Lang

      Stephen Lang answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Blimey! That’s a question I hadn’t thought about.
      Computers, test machines, hand tools (screw drivers,files,saws etc), manufacturing machines. . . . It depends what type of work I am doing, design, analysis, making prototypes, even pencil and paper for initial concept sketches.
      I’m sure there’s more if I had longer to think about it. I hope this answers your question.

    • Photo: Carmel Howe

      Carmel Howe answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      so many thingggs! honestly I had to write a list of all the things i used in my thesis and it’s currently 5 pages long.
      Mainly:
      microscopes
      gold on glass coverslips (i get the gold on the glass by using a thermal evaporator)
      brains &everything they need (which is a lot)

    • Photo: Kathryn Thomas

      Kathryn Thomas answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      Wow ok, usually I used:
      – powders to make glass
      – glass
      – metal disks
      -polishing machine
      – sandblasting machine
      – coating machine
      – machines to test the coatings
      – cell media and test chemicals for human cells tests
      -bacterial media and chemicals for bacterial tests
      – optical microscopes
      – Electron microscopes which can zoom in more!

    • Photo: Valerie Bentivegna

      Valerie Bentivegna answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      What I’ve personally used, in terms of equipment:
      Optical microscopes (fluorescent, confocal, …), Atomic Force Microscopes, Ultrasound scanning systems, a lot of computers!!!!

      Other objects would be: a lot of “plasticware” for cell culture, coverslips and slides, …
      Substances: very often ethanol, deionised water, also cell media, PDMS, …

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