Centro de Instumentación Científica – University of Granada

The CIC has a complete set of state-of-the-art analytical equipment and research services used/offered and maintained by specialised technical staff (most of them with PhD degrees). Over the last decades, the CIC has purchased and installed new equipment including different electron microscopes, X-ray diffractometers, analytical chemical tools, structural and molecular analysis tools, as well as fluorescence and laser confocal microscopy, AFM, nanoindentation, and X-ray micro-CT, just to name a few, of extensive use in earth science, material science, chemistry, physical-chemistry, heritage science and biomedical research. Importantly, the CIC includes a sample preparation unit (microtome, metal-sputtering and ion-beam thinning). This ensures solving complex problems or sample-related issues prior to analysis.