Materials science and engineering facilities at UCSC are equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and advanced instrumentation, offering an exceptional environment for exploring the properies, synthesis, and applications of materials at the nanoscale and beyond. Researchers and students benefit from access to specialized equipment, collaborative spaces, and interdisciplinary support, fostering groundbreaking discoveries and addressing critical challenges in the field.

Multifunctional Materials Laboratory

The MML consists of four separate laboratories, comprising approximately 3000 square feet of clean space and an additional 1800 square feet of standard lab space housing materials growth and characterization facilities. These facilities are located at a newly refurbished space in the UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park.

W.M. Keck Nanofabrication Laboratory

Researchers and students benefit from access to specialized equipment, collaborative spaces, and interdisciplinary support, fostering groundbreaking discoveries and addressing critical challenges in the field.

Baskin Engineering Cleanroom Facility

Baskin Engineering Building houses microfabrication equipment for photolithography, reacting ion etching, and deposition that complements the nanofabrication capabilities in the W.M. Keck Center Nanofabrication Facility.

X-ray Diffraction Facility

The UC Santa Cruz X-ray Facility, which contains a Rigaku SmartLab XRD and a Bruker APEX II single crystal XRD is available on a recharge basis in the Physical Sciences Building on the main campus.

NMR User Facility

This facility, located in the Physical Sciences Building on the main campus, houses four NMR spectrometers. The NMR facility has expert staff to assist with experiments and data interpretation.

Computational Facilities

Professor Yuan Ping’s group has a group computer cluster with 384 Intel cores and infiniband interconnection. Ping has external computational resources as well as access to a high-performance computer facility funded by a NSF-MRI grant.

UC Santa Cruz Life Sciences Microscopy Center

This is a shared user facility that provides cutting-edge imaging techniques for advanced biomedical research, and is supported by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3).

UC Santa Cruz Flow Cytometry Facility

This facility houses a high-speed cell sorting and analysis system, including a BD Biosciences FACSAria cell sorter and a BD Biosciences LSRII cell analyzer. It also provides licensed FlowJo software for data analysis and display.

UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center

The Chemical Screening Center houses high-throughput screening (HTS) robotics that are used to search for biologically active compounds and siRNA targeted toward a variety of biological systems. Investigators can test up to 30,000 chemical compounds per day for biological function and/or usefulness in fighting diseases.

UC Santa Cruz Earth and Planetary Sciences Scanning Electron Microscopy

UC Santa Cruz Earth and Planetary Sciences scanning electron microscope (SEM) facility is home to the Thermoscientific Apreo SEM, capable of electron imaging down to nanoparticle scales, boasting novel compound lenses and the latest technologies in electron microscopy.