University of Pittsburgh
Joel Gillespie
219 Parkman Ave
311 Chevron Science Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
https://researchservices.pitt.edu/facilities/materials-characterization-lab
RRID: RRID:SCR_025127
Thermo Fisher ESCALAB 250 Xi X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS)
surface, elemental, and chemical state analysis including XPS, UPS, ISS, REELS, TPD/TPRS, small spot XPS, XPS imagining, ARXPS, and thin film depth profiling
Atomic Force Spectroscopy
FT-IR
HPLC
HPLC-UV
Lyophilization
Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM)
Optical Spectroscopy
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Shared Instrumentation Oversight & Maintenance
Spectroscopy
1.) Kundu S, Li L, Liu H (2026 Mar 10). Intrinsic Wettability of Talc. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 42(9), 6637-6642. . PMCID: 12980818.
2.) Westbay JH, Bigley DP, Sappa S, Ayalon A, Aweidah H, Dignam LD, Martel JN, Beltran WA, Sahel JA, Byrne LC, DiLeo MV (2026 Mar 4). Synthesis and characterization of an injectable telechelic material for the epiretinal delivery of retinal gene therapies. Journal of materials chemistry. B, (), . . PMCID: 12958304.
3.) Shiby E, Sun R, Bloom BP, Albro JA, Sun D, Waldeck DH (2025 Oct 7). Interplay between Chiro-Optical and Spin Transport Properties in Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots. ACS nano, 19(39), 35119-35126. . PMID: 40982633.
4.) Mandato A, Moriglioni NA, Saxena S (2025 Jul 7). Q‑Band Double Quantum Coherence ESR for Sensitive Nitroxide-Based Distance Measurements The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, 129(28), 7108-7118. . PMCID: 12278208.
5.) Eckhart KE , Arnold AM , Starvaggi FA , Sydlik SA (2021 Apr 7). Tunable, bacterio-instructive scaffolds made from functional graphenic materials. Biomaterials science, 9(7), 2467-2479. doi: 10.1039/d0bm01471k. PMID: 33404025.
6.) Mandal A, van der Wel PCA (2016 Nov 1). MAS (1)H NMR Probes Freezing Point Depression of Water and Liquid-Gel Phase Transitions in Liposomes. Biophysical journal, 111(9), 1965-1973. . PMID: 27806278.
7.) Gao Y, Osman S, Koide K (2014 Aug 14). Total Synthesis and Biological Studies of TMC-205 and Analogues as Anticancer Agents and Activators of SV40 Promoter. ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 5(8), 863-7. . PMID: 25147604.
This facility maintains a large array of instrumentation for the production and analysis of complex materials, including nanoparticles, thin films, polymers, ceramics, and molecular electronics. In addition, the MCL oversees the operations of the Department's Biological Instrumentation Cluster which provides access to specialized equipment used in molecular biology and biological chemistry.
