Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - Research Laboratory (RL)

The laboratory is equipped with apparatus for Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films – the premier technology and research method for supramolecular architecture. This is a leading method in the field of organic nanotechnology, which is a "key enabling technology" in the EU's Horizon-Europe R&I program for research and innovation. The upgrade process of the LB system includes a Brewster Angle Microscope (BAM) and a surface potential sensor with a Milli-Q IQ ultrapure water system, a vertical laminar flow clean box (class ISO3), and a cryostat system for temperature control. Currently, the system is being further upgraded with the acquisition of a Zeiss epi-fluorescence microscope, a sensitive Andor video camera capable of super-resolution up to 50 nm, and a spectral channel for measuring fluorescence kinetics with picosecond resolution. These tools are used for studying insoluble molecular layers at the "air-water" interface (Langmuir films) and those deposited onto solid substrates as LB films, including the capability to observe the "air-liquid-solid" triple contact point.

First and second-year students from the "Water Supply and Sewerage" (WS) specialty participate as research circle members in the "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" Research Laboratory.