About SAIF :

Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF) at IIT Patna is established to provide analytical and data collection facility to scientific community using different sophisticated analytical equipments. The establishment of the centre at IITP was sponsored by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. This facility is open for internal (IIT Patna users) as well as external researchers from academia, research laboratories and industries.

Presently, SAIF IIT Patna is equipped with three major analytical instruments (i) Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer (SC-XRD) (ii) High Resolution - Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (HR-LCMS) having HPLC & UHR-TOF mass spectrometer and (iii)500 MHz NMR Spectrometer. Apart from these, following equipment has been sanctioned to SAIF IIT Patna instrument facility.

  • Physiorption/Chemisorption Analyzer
  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry
  • Thermogravimetric Analyzer
  • Particle Size and Zeta potential Analyzer
  • FEG Scanning electron microscope with EDS

For more detail about the SAIFs, please visit the following link.

http://dst.gov.in/scientific-programmes/scientific-engineering-research/sophisticated-analytical-instrument-facilities-saifs