Equipment for polymer processing and general in-vitro studies:

• Instron 5944 for measurements of mechanical properties (Load cells 2 KN and 100 N).
• Chemical fume hood (Dynamika 1.50M).
• vacuum oven (VT-6060 m Vacutherm, Heraeus)
• Duo 10 rotary vane pump
• Heating and drying oven (UT 6 Heat, Heraeus)
• Freeze dryer (Benchtop 4K, Virtis)
• Julabo SW22 shaker
• Homogenizer
• Analytical balances
• Refrigerator
• Water purification system.
• Microbiological incubator (B12 function line, Heraeus)
• Refrigerated microcentrifuge (Megafuge 1R, Heraeus)
• Miscellaneous glassware

Equipment for degradation and drug release studies

• Gel permeation chromatography unit (based on Breeze HPLC system: isocratic pump and refractive index detector) for molecular weight measurements.
• Jasco High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with a UV 2075 plus detector, quaternary gradient pump and a reverse phase column (Lithrosther 100 RP 18) for drug release experiments.
• Microplate spectrophotometer (SPECTRAMAX 340, Molecular devices) for protein release experiments.
• THERMO – MULTISKANGO spectrophotometer

Equipment for cell culture:

• Biological hoods.
• Inverted microscope (TS100-F Nikon) with digital camera (Cooplix 4500, Nikon).
• CO2 incubator (Heracell, Heraeus autoclave (Tuttnauer 2540MLV).
• Autoclave (Tuttnauer 2540MLV).

Computers and related office equipment

Shared equipment used for our studies

• Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (Quanta 200 FEG ESEM).
• High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (HRSEM, Jeol JSM 6700).
• Scanning Electron Microscope (JEOL 6300 SEM).
• Light microscopes.