Infrastructure

CircuLab is a KAW-WISE technology platform hosted by the Department of Chemistry at Stockholm University. The platform is dedicated to the development and validation of circular and sustainable soft matter materials and organic compounds. With a strong focus on process automation, AI-supported analysis, and real-time monitoring, CircuLab enables fast, safe, and efficient materials synthesis and development tailored to specific needs. A new, purpose-built laboratory is currently under contruction and set to open in fall 2026, while many instruments are already available for use by academic researchers and external partners.

CircuLab at KAW-WISE

The platform is structured into four modular yet interconnected clusters covering functionalisation, catalysis, chemical analysis, and system integration. Users can utilize CircuLab either by exploting its holistic concept or by simply using its instruments stand alone.

Materials Processing

Mechanochemistry

Separation and Mass Spectrometry

Policy, fees and booking

For detailed information and a cost estimate, please contact the persons below. To book instruments, please use the LIMS booking system.

Link to the booking system

Contact information

• Principal investigator: Aji Mathew
• Principal investigator: Belén Martín-Matute

The Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) provides high-resolution imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopic analysis of both soft and hard materials using transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM and SEM), and thus supports a wide range of reserach fields, ranging from materials and solid-state chemistry, and engineering, to life sciences. EMC offers both routine and advanced analytical capabilities for structural and compositional studies.

Scanning Electron Microscopy instruments

Transmission Electron Microscopy instruments

Equipment for sample preparation

The EMC is integrated in the KAW-WISE "Electron Microscopy" technology platform and also part of the national "research infrastructure for advanced electron microscopy" network ARTEMI.

KAW-WISE Electron Microscopy technology platform

Swedish Research Infrastructure for Advanced Electron Microscopy – ARTEMI

Policy, fees and booking

Please review the EMC infrastructure policy before making a booking. All associated fees are detailed within the policy. A standard working day consists of two core sessions, each lasting 4 hours: the morning session runs from 09:00 to 13:00, and the afternoon session from 13:00 to 17:00. External service requests are accommodated depending on the availability of both instruments and operators. To book instruments, please use the LIMS booking system.

EMC policy June 2025 pdf, 227.3 kB. (227 Kb)

To reserve instruments, please use the LIMS booking system.

Link to the booking system

Contact information

• Principal investigator: Tom Willhammar
  

The Department of Chemistry hosts and co-hosts a broad collection of mass spectrometers with varying capabilities, supporting research in chemical and environmental analysis, metabolomics, pharmaceuticals, synthesis control, and materials science. Rather than being centralized in a single location, the instruments are integrated into three complementary platforms:

High-resolution mass spectrometry in the Department of Environmental Science 's laboratories

Mass Spectrometry instruments at CircuLab

Mass Spectrometry instruments at MACAL

Contact information

• Staff scientist: Claudia Möckel

The Materials Analysis Center at Arrhenius Laboratory (MACAL) offers a wider array of analytical techniques for both surface and bulk characterization of materials. The available methods and techniques include X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, surface and porosity analysis, as well as thermal and mechanical analysis. The equipment within MACAL is organized into the following units.

Optical Spectroscopy

Separation and Mass Spectroscopy

Soft Matter Characterization

Surface Analysis

Thermal Analysis

X-ray Diffraction

Policy, fees and booking

Please review the MACAL´s infrastructure policies before making a booking. 

MACAL policy 2025 pdf, 311.3 kB. (311 Kb)

MACAL Surface Analysis Facility policy 2025 pdf, 336.4 kB. (336 Kb)

MACAL Soft Matter Facility policy 2025 pdf, 330.3 kB. (330 Kb)

To reserve instruments, please use the LIMS booking system.

Link to booking system

Contact information

• Principal investigator: Ulrich Häusermann

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR) is divided into a liquid-state NMR (ls-NMR) unit and solid-state NMR (ss-NMR) unit.

Liquid-state NMR instruments

Solid-state NMR

The ss-NMR is embedded into the KAW technology platform “High-field Materials NMR and MRI” and is also part of the national NMR research infrastructure network, SwedNMR.

KAW technology platform “High-field Materials NMR and MRI”

The National Infrastructure for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance – SwedNMR

Contact information

• Principal investigator: Niklas Hedin

Spark Plasma Sintering Facility (SPS) enables rapid and precisely controlled sintering of advanced materials, including ceramics, metals, alloys, composites, and porous structures. The SPS facility is equipped with two high-performance systems, of which one is integrated with a glovebox, allowing for both small- and large-scale production as well as the processing of air-sensitive samples.

Spark Plasma Sintering instruments

Policy, fees and booking

Please review SPS facility policy before booking. All fees are listed in the policy.

SPS facility policy and fees 2024 pdf, 220 kB. (219 Kb)

To book instruments, please use the LIMS booking system.

Link to the booking system

Contact information

• Staff scientist: Mirva Eriksson

Albanova Nanofabricaton Facility

AlbaNova Nanolab offers access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication tools and processes. The facility is a collaboration between SU and the Royal Institute of Technology.

Albanova Nanofabrication Facility

Imaging Facility at Stockholm University – IFSU

IFSU is a core facility at the University for light- and electron microscopy. The facility offers a range of imaging equipment from advanced widefield, confocal to a transmission electron microscope. Techniques offered also include brightfield imaging, live imaging, spectral imaging, total internal reflection and image scanning microscopy.

Imaging Facility at Stockholm University – IFSU

Mechanical workshop services

The mechanical workshop at AlbaNova and the supporting workshop at the Department of Geological Sciences together constitute a core facility that offers high expertise and services in mechanical design and manufacturing.

Mechanical workshop services

SciLifeLab

SciLifeLab is a national infrastructure offering unique technologies and expertise available to life scientists in areas such as biomedicine, ecology and evolution. SciLifeLab is organized into platforms, each of which comprises a number of units that provide technologies and services to users. One of them is the Cryo-EM Swedish Infrastructure Unit which is hosted by the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

SciLifeLab

European Spallation Source – ESS

The European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS), currently being built in Lund, will be one of the largest and most advanced research infrastructures worldwide. ESS will provide the most powerful pulsed neutron source globally, enabling a wide range of scientific applications across materials science, engineering, and energy research. The initial suite of neutron instruments will consist of 15 instruments1, covering a wide range of elastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques.

ESS – European Spallation Source

MAX IV

MAX IV laboratory is a Swedish national laboratory providing scientists with the most brilliant X-rays for research in materials and life sciences, with Lund University as the host university. MAX IV operates 16 beamlines covering spectroscopy, diffraction and scattering, or imaging techniques.

MAX IV

National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden – NAISS

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden maintains advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and data services that support research ranging from fundamental research in mathematics or physics to materials and climate modelling, the green transition, life science and economics. NAISS is hosted by Linköping University.

National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden – NAISS

SU is part of the European CIVIS network through which high quality infrastructures abroad can become accessible.

European Research Infrastructure Consortium – ERIC

Sharing Research Infrastructures – RIS4CIVIS