Research Interest and Goal:
Self-assembly of new mesoporous materials and their morphogenesis.

People:

Igor Sokolov, professor
Yaroslav Yu. Kievsky, Ph.D. student
 

Projects:

Morphogenesis of microshapes: Morphogenisis of meso (nano) porous silicas

Equipment:

• Polarm-L 213-TR a state-of-the-art polarizing optical microscope with working magnification up to 1600x, super-bright illumination system, capable of both orthoscopic and conoscopic studies of transparent birefringent samples. Has ability to image with phase contrast, dark-field, brightfield, and dispersion staining (central and angular).
• Kodak Digital Science microscopy documentation system
• Corning Distillation System
• Fisher incubator,
• American heat bath
• Corning 2200 oven,
• Orion pH meter with temperature auto compensation
• Centrifuge,
• Corning hot-plate magnetic stirrer with programmable temperature profile
• ultrasonic cleaners
• Optical Sony video system
• Optical stereo microscopes,
• Micromanipulator 6000 by Micromanipulator Inc.
• Furnaces
• Fume hoods