Nano lab

🧪 Nanolab – A Safe Space for Nanoparticle Handling

The Nanolab is the area of our platform dedicated to the safe handling of nanoparticles. Equipped with chemical fume hoods and essential infrastructure, this space allows researchers and students to work with these extraordinary materials under proper safety conditions.

Even without heavy synthesis or characterization equipment, the Nanolab represents a key step: it provides the right environment to prepare, manipulate, and explore nanoparticles before accessing the advanced facilities located nearby.

By providing this space, we enable:

  • the learning of best practices for handling nanomaterials,

  • the preparation of samples for further analysis,

  • the implementation of pilot experiments paving the way for research in health, energy, electronics, and advanced materials.

The Nanolab thus serves as a gateway to the nanoscale world, where safety, accessibility, and innovation potential come together.

EQUIPMENT

An overview of the equipment available for experiments

MRI

The facility is equipped with a Siemens Prisma 3T

Motion tracking and Goggles

In collaboration with the VR facility, we have installed motion tracking cameras inside the MR room that can be used in combination with a stereoscopy HMD to create virtual scenarios.

Mock Scanner

We can train participants inside the mock scanner and measure their head motion.

TMS/tES

The collaboration with the Neuromodulation Facility made it possible to stimulate non-invasively and concurrently acquire functional brain images.

EEG

Thanks to the collaboration with the EEG-BCI facility, we can simultaneously acquire EEG signals and MRI images. We currently have two MR-compatible EEG systems: the 64-channel BrainAmp and the 256-channel EGI EEG system 400 MR.

Biopac

Several physiological signals can be acquired during the MRI acquisition to have a better picture of the effects of the stimulation protocol.

Click here for the complete list of MRI equipment available at Campus Biotech.

PROJECTS

A few examples of various projects performed at the Human Neuroscience Platform