This is a list of the major equipment in the Pollack Lab. If you are UNSURE IN ANY WAY about how to use the particular piece of equipment, ask the following individuals listed next to the equipment piece. Pictures of lab instruments are included here to allow a new lab member to gain familiarity with the equipment. YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY speak to a staff member if you plan to use the equipment that is bolded.

EXCLUSION ZONE/SUSPENSIONS/GELS
- Nafion usage (everyone)
- obtaining Nafion sheets/tubes (mina/kurt)
- Barnstead water purification system (everyone/hyok, pic, pic)
- microspheres (everyone)
- PAA/PVA/polyHEMA gel making (mina/rainer)
- turbidimeter (kurt/rainer)


IMAGING
- UV/Vis spectrometer (hyok, pic)
- microscope station/connected equipment (mina/rainer, pic, pic)
- polarizing microscope/connected equipment (kurt, pic)
- vertical compound microscope (hyok, pic)
- vertical stereoscope (rainer, pic)
- yellow stereomicroscope (hyok, pic)
- amscope camera/stereomicroscope (kurt, pic)
- pike camera (everyone)
- scion camera (rainer, pic)
- 30-500 fps high speed camera (mina, pic)
- forward looking IR (FLIR) camera (hyok/rainer, pic)


MECHANICAL
- specific chamber/precision chamber making for experiments (jeff)
- general glass chamber making (hyok/rainer/jeff)
- UV lamp for chamber curing (jeff/kurt)
- Sutter glass electrode puller (mark, pic)
- microtome cutter (hyok, pic)
- precision micropositioners/translators (jeff)
- automated syringe pump (hyok, pic)
- small optics (jeff)
- drillpress (jeff)
- bansaw (jeff)
- lathe (jeff)
- substrate/raw materials, major hardware (jeff)


CHEMICAL
- fume hood (everyone/hyok, pic)
- general chemical bench (everyone, pic)
- sensitive weigh scales (everyone, pic)
- chemical bench pH meter (rainer, pic)
- micro pH meter (rainer/hyok, pic)
- oven (rainer, pic)
- water cooling system (rainer, pic, pic)
- precise thermometers (rainer/everyone)
- PDMS/microfluidic/surface coating techniques (rainer, pic)
- O2, N2, high pressure gas tanks (hyok, pic)
- chemical disposal (everyone)


ELECTRONICS
- general electronics/design/implementation/software (bob/mark)
- electrode wire (jeff)
- 30 kV power supply (mark)
- WPI electrometer (hyok/rainer, pic)
- Kesley electrometer (mark/bob)
- new electrometers (mark, pic)