Nanoscale Imaging Center (NIC)

 

 

Overview

The Nanoscale Imaging Center (NIC) completes the existing biomedical imaging capabilities at IUPUI, the Indiana Center of Excellence in BioMedical Imaging (IN-CEBI) with its whole body imaging focus and the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy with its cellular level imaging focus. The NIC anchors a campus effort to investigate the behavior of single molecules and nanostructures, with an emphasis on medical, biological, and materials science applications.

NIC is operated as a highly multidisciplinary facility bridging medicine, science, materials science, and engineering disciplines integrated within existing interdisciplinary campus-based efforts. The NIC, located in the School of Science, provides IUPUI researchers with state-of-the-art single molecule imaging and nanoscale characterization and manipulation tools, such as wide-field single molecule fluorescence microscopy, near-field optical microscopy, a BioScope AFM (combined atomic force and optical microscopy), magnetic force microscopy, and confocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). The operation of the NIC is the responsibility of the NIC co-directors. Part of NICÕs objective is not only to provide cutting-edge technology and expertise concerning nanoscale-level imaging, but also to develop next generation techniques in this highly perspective discipline.

NIC focus includes the broad areas of:

á      Subcellular imaging

á      Biomimetics for biomaterials and biosensors

á      Nanotechnology and development of next generation nanoscale imaging probes and instrumentation