Testing facilities
NIOM possesses modern and well-equipped laboratory facilities for testing of dental biomaterials, including acclimatized laboratories. The staff has the necessary qualifications, training and experience to perform the tests to the highest professional standards.
Instrumentation
- Dynamic mechanical testing (3 kN)
- Flow cytometry
- Hardness tester
- High sensitivity analytical instrument (UHPLC-MS)
- Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC/MS)
- Material characterization (FT-IR, TMA)
- Microscopy
- Confocal laser scanning microscope
- PCR
- Western Blotting
- Microplate reader
- Sample preparation (casting machines, firing furnaces, micro cutter, grinding and polishing)
- Speed mixer
- Thermocycling
- Universal testing machines (≤10 kN)
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscope