Laboratory Equipment Access
We help science-led businesses access the infrastructure they need to truly accelerate growth.
Our shared laboratory facilities provide businesses with access to high-quality analytical equipment without the burden of heavy investment to purchase. Through our easy and affordable pay-as-you-go model, businesses can carry out their own research and development using calibrated, well-maintained equipment in a safe and professional environment.
This provides businesses with full control over the analysis and the results, empowering them to carry out research and development while keeping costs manageable.
With a diverse community of businesses using our equipment, there are also valuable opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange, helping drive innovation across sectors.
Shared equipment list in Daresbury Facilities
The Science and Technology Facilities Council provides specialist equipped laboratory facilities to give ambitious entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs in biology, chemistry and engineering sectors the space and support to grow.
The fitted laboratories offer an affordable mechanism for businesses to access an impressive array of technologies, equipment and technical & business expertise on a flexible basis, reducing the risk associated with research and development.
In addition, companies benefit from locating on a leading science and innovation campus; accessing a world renowned business address and a large and flourishing network of science and industry.
Biology Laboratories
Our biology laboratories are designed to support biotech companies developing innovative ideas in biotechnology, health & life sciences with class II laboratories. Equipment includes fume cupboards and Biosafety cabinets, as well as a wide range of instrumentation including high specification analytical equipment for UVVIS spectrophotometry and fluorimetry.
Biology equipment list
| Analog Vortex Stirrer | Deionised Water System (15 MΩ & 18 MΩ) | Analogue Tube Rollers |
| Autoclaves (large autoclave & small bench top autoclave) | Drying Cabinet | Magnetic Stirrer |
| Balances | Hot Plate Stirrer | PCR (Applied Biosystems™ ProFlex™ 2 x 96- well PCR System, Range: 10-100μL) |
| Centrifuges (a range of Beckman high speed and ultracentrifuges as well as bench-top models (ultra and low speed are available) | Ice Machine | Shaking Incubators (Multitron infors) (30° - 240°) |
| Centrifuge Rotars | Light Boxes | Sonication Water Bath |
| ChemiDocIt2 510 System (with UV to white converter plate) | Microbalances | Synergy H1 Microplate reader UV/VIS |
| Class 2 Bio Safety Cabinets | Microplate Shakers | Spectrometer (Lambda 25 & Lambda PH Meter 35) |
| Cold Storage (-20°c Freezer; -80°c Freezer; 5°c Fridge) | Microscopes | Water baths |
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Chemistry Laboratories
Wet chemistry and materials laboratories are provided for companies working in material chemistry, nanomaterials and more.
Laboratories are equipped with fume cupboards and deionised water, and also benefit from access to compressed air, CO2, nitrogen and natural gas. The suite of equipment includes essential laboratory apparatus, high precision analytical equipment and facilities.
Chemistry equipment list
| Cold Storage (-18 Freezer; -80 Freezer; 5°c Fridge) | Microbalance | SEM (Hitachi TM3030 & TM3000 tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope) |
| Deionised Water System (15 MΩ & 18 MΩ) | Microscopes (Olympus BH2-UMA (5 optic microscope) with light box; Keyence Digital Microscope) | UV Spectrometer (PerkinElmer Lambda 35) |
| FTIR (Perkin Elmer Spectrum two part two, Wavelength Range: 8,300 – 350 cm-1 optimised) | Temperature controlled ovens | Vacuum Oven |
| Fume Cupboards | pH Meter | Bruker D2 Phaser PXRD desktop instrument |
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