Nanomaterials Core Characterization Facility

The NCC is a research core facility of the VCU Office of Research and located in the Institute for Engineering and Medicine. The NCC is also a partnership between the VCU School of Engineering and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. As a core research facility, resources and services are available by contract to not only university faculty but industry as well. Click here to see a visual overview of the NCC.

The NCC offers technologies that benefit multi-disciplinary industrial and scholarly research in a broad range of sciences to modify, manipulate or tailor the surface, size, or shape of a particular material.

With the NCC you gain access to over $11 million in sophisticated materials characterization equipment and analytical services unique to the mid-Atlantic region.

Image of Bruker SkyScan 1173 High Energy Micro-CT [View Image]

Bruker SkyScan 1173 High Energy Micro-CT

Image of Hitachi SU-70 FE-SEM [View Image]

Hitachi SU-70 FE-SEM

Image of ThermoFisher ESCAlab 250 [View Image]

ThermoFisher ESCAlab 250

Image of Zeiss Auriga FIB-SEM [View Image]

Zeiss Auriga FIB-SEM

Image of Zeiss LSM 710 Laser Scanning Microscope [View Image]

Zeiss LSM 710 Laser Scanning Microscope

Image of Nikon Eclipse LV100D [View Image]

Nikon Eclipse LV100D

Image of Horiba LABRam Spectrometer [View Image]

Horiba LABRam HR Evolution Confocal Raman Spectrometer

Image of PANalytical Epsilon 3XL [View Image]

PANalytical Epsilon 3XL

Image of Quantum Design VersaLab [View Image]

Quantum Design VersaLab

Image of Dimension ICON AFM [View Image]

Dimension ICON AFM

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PHI VersaProbe III Scanning XPS Microprobe

Bruker Dimension FastScan Scanning Probe Microscope [View Image]

Bruker Dimension FastScan Scanning Probe Microscope

JEM-F200 Cold FEG Electron Microscope [View Image]

JEM-F200 Cold FEG Electron Microscope

DynaCool Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) [View Image]

DynaCool Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)

SkyScan 2214 multi-scale X-ray Nano-CT [View Image]

SkyScan 2214 multi-scale X-ray Nano-CT

Empyrean Multipurpose X-Ray Diffractometer [View Image]

Empyrean Multipurpose X-Ray Diffractometer

M-2000 J.A.Woollam Spectroscopic Ellipsometer [View Image]

M-2000 J.A.Woollam Spectroscopic Ellipsometer