ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
The present collaboartion is a cooperation effort between Department of Cemistry at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who have strong expertise in quantum chemistry and Analytical Chemistry and Department of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain who have strong background in the areas of bioelectrochemistry and physical chemistry, molecular biology and nanotechnology/materials science.
King Abdulaziz University
King Abdulaziz University is a public university located in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
KAU is a well-known university, recognized for its excellence by the ministry of Education of the autonomous government of Saudi Arabia. The research team combines long experience in Quantum Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Electroanalytical and spectroscopic techniques, bioelectrochemistry and physical chemistry and nanotechnology/materials science.
King Abdulaziz University is a public university located in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
KAU is a well-known university, recognized for its excellence by the ministry of Education of the autonomous government of Saudi Arabia. The research team combines long experience in Quantum Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Electroanalytical and spectroscopic techniques, bioelectrochemistry and physical chemistry and nanotechnology/materials science.
King Abdulaziz University
Interfibio research Group
Interfibio is a research group formed in 2004 to create a critical mass of researchers of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the URV working at the bio/material interface. The team combines long experience in bioelectrochemistry and physical chemistry, molecular biology and nanotechnology/ materials science.
Interfibio is a “consolidated research group” recognized for its excellence by the ministry of Education of the autonomous government of Catalonia.
Interfibio research Group
Interfibio is a research group formed in 2004 to create a critical mass of researchers of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the URV working at the bio/material interface. The team combines long experience in bioelectrochemistry and physical chemistry, molecular biology and nanotechnology/ materials science.
Interfibio is a “consolidated research group” recognized for its excellence by the ministry of Education of the autonomous government of Catalonia.
Significant infrastructure Interfibio
At present, the group works in 4 laboratories of 200 m2 total research space, each specialised in infrastructure in a matrix-like organisation.
The facilities include a dedicated synthesis/materials laboratory, microbiology (class 2) and a cell biology lab, an analytical lab, a molecular biology lab and a measurements (electrochemistry) laboratory.
Equipment include potenciostates/galvanostats with impedance and coulometry modules, an electrochemical SPR, a BIACORE, a spectrofluorimeter with a Peltier module, a zeta-sizer, screen printer and surface tension measurement apparatus.
The group has co financed and has direct access to characterization equipment such as AFM, SEM, TEM, DNA sequencer, real-time PCR, NMR, MS, MALDI-ToF-MS. The group also has direct access to a fully equiped microfabrication clean room containing sputtering and laser equipment as well as a DRIE. Additionally the group has access to a milling machine as well as a rapid prototypes and 3-D printer for microsystem manufacture.
King Abdulaziz University has the software used for data acquisition on the used instruments e.g. An Autolab PGSTAT302N potentiostat/galvanostat (Metrohm, Netherlands) connected to 663 VA Stand and operated with General Purpose Electrochemical System software (GPES v 4.9007) and Frequency Resonance Analysis software (FRA v 4.9007); a Metrohm 757 VA trace analyzer and 747 VA stand (Basel, Switzerland); a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (JEOL-JSM6301-F) (Peabody, MA, USA); An Agilent HPLC Technologies 1200 Series, USA, G1361A pump, G1315B DAD UV detector, analytical reversed phase symmetry C18 waters column (4.6×150.0 mm, 5 µm), A Milli-Q Plus system (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA), a Perkin-Elmer LS 55 spectrofluorimeter (UK), equipped with a xenon lamp and a 10 mm quartz cell. This spectrofluorimeter has the data acquisition software compliant with the 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.