Research Instrument Rates

 View Core, Non-Core Academic, and Industrial rates for UNK research instrumentation.

Categories: Spectroscopy, Materials Analysis, Chemical Separation/Identification, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Microscopy, Exercise and Sports Science, Communication Disorders/Audiology, Computer Science 

Spectroscopy

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Raman Microscopy - Horiba LabRAM 800 hour 9  39 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Cary 100 hour 6  36 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Shimadzu hour 6  36 1 hr assisted
FTIR Spectroscopy - Thermo-Nicolet Nexus 670 hour 6  36 1 hr assisted
Fluorescence (Horiba Fluoromax 4C - three inst) hour 9  39 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (NanoDrop ONE) hour 80/month 18 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (KKS) hour 80/month 18 1 hr assisted

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Materials Analysis

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
X-Ray Powder Diffraction (Bruker D2 Phaser) sample 15 45 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (Dektak 150) hour 10 40 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (KLA -Tencor Alpha Step) hour 3 33 1 hr assisted
X-Ray Fluorescence (Malvern Panalytical Epsilon 4) sample 15 45 1 hr assisted $75 fee for fusion sample prep
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TA Instruments Q20) hour 15 45 1 hr assisted
Thermogravitic Analysis (TA Instruments TGA/DSC Q600) hour 15 45 1 hr assisted
Reacting Annealing/Physical Vapor Deposition hour 5 35 1 hr assisted plus gas charge & cost of suscepter
Thin Film Plasma Sputtering hour 5 35 1 hr assisted must provide own targets
Electron Microscopy (Delong America LVEM-5) sample 20 50 1 hr assisted
Electron Microscopy sample prep sample 1 hr assisted plus materials charge
Particle Analysis/Zeta Potential (Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS) hour 20 50 1 hr assisted
Isothermal Calorimetry hour 50 80 1 hr assisted

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Chemical Separation/Identification

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Prep - HPLC sample 16 30 min 1 hour
LC-MS (Agilent 1260 Infinity) sample 5 35 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents are not provided by user
GC-MS (Agilent 7820A GS with 5975 MS) sample 5 35 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents/gases are not provided by user
Flash Chromatography sample 50/month 1 hr assisted Does not include solvents or columns
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-Proton sample 2 32 2 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-other hour 6 36 3 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
Elemental Analysis (ICP-OES Varian 720-ES) hour 30 60 1 hr assisted

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Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
High Speed Centrifugation (Beckman JXN-30) hour 10 - 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Centrifugation (Eppindorf 5840R) hour 10 - 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Flow Cytometry (Attune NxT) hour 30 60 $30 set up fee
Cell Sorting  (Sony SH800Z) hour 30 60 $30 set up fee; $50 chip cost
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD ChemiDoc MP) month 5 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD Gel Doc Go) month 5 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD) month 5 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Microplate Readers hour 25 55
Stopped Flow Kinetics (Kintek SF-300X) hour 50 80
Peptide Synthesis (CEM Liberty Blue Auto)
Cryotank Storage month 2 -
Quantitative PCR (ABI Quant 5) plate 20 50 25
Digital Droplet PCR (BioRAD) reaction 1 - plus 5 per run; *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Disruptor (Qiagen TissueLyser II) sample 35 55
Tissue Dissociator (Miltenyi Biotec OctoMACS) sample 5 10 25
Plate Washer (Biotek) month 5 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (large) month 40 - 50 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (small) month 40 - 50

*$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour

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Microscopy

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Inverted Fluorescence Microscopy (Nikon TE 2000) hour 10 40 1 hour fee
Confocal Microscopy (Nikon Laser scanning FV3000) hour 20 50 1 hour fee
Microtome (Leica SM2010) hour 5 35 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades
Cryostat Microtome (Leica CM1512) hour 7 37 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades

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Exercise and Sports Science

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Sports Science Hub (Motion Capture and Analysis) hour 30 60 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) hour 25 55 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) scan 10 25 N/A client may choose cheaper of per hour or per scan rate
Laser Therapy (Light Force) hour 10 40 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Metabolic Testing hour 10 40 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments

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Communication Disorders/Audiology

Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Clinical Audiology Lab (10 instruments) day 75 75* N/A *$30/hr assistance fee
Mobile Audiology Lab day 25 25* N/A *$30/hr assistance fee
AAC Lab incl/Eye-Tracking Hardware and Analysis day 50 50* N/A *$30/hr assistance fee
Boothless Audiology Lab day 25 25* N/A *$30/hr assistance fee

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Computer Science

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server usage /% cap-month 5 -
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server storage /TB-month 17 -

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Spectroscopy

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Raman Microscopy - Horiba LabRAM 800 hour 15 75 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Cary 100 hour 9 69 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Shimadzu hour 9 69 1 hr assisted
FTIR Spectroscopy - Thermo-Nicolet Nexus 670 hour 9 69 1 hr assisted
Fluorescence (Horiba Fluoromax 4C - three inst) hour 15 75 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (NanoDrop ONE) hour 9 69 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (KKS) hour 9 69 1 hr assisted

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Materials Analysis

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
X-Ray Powder Diffraction (Bruker D2 Phaser) sample 25 85 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (Dektak 150) hour 15 75 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (KLA -Tencor Alpha Step) hour 5 65 1 hr assisted
X-Ray Fluorescence (Malvern Panalytical Epsilon 4) sample 25 85 1 hr assisted $75 fee for fusion sample prep
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TA Instruments Q20) hour 18 78 1 hr assisted
Thermogravitic Analysis (TA Instruments TGA/DSC Q600) hour 18 78 1 hr assisted
Reacting Annealing/Physical Vapor Deposition hour 10 70 1 hr assisted plus gas charge & cost of suscepter
Thin Film Plasma Sputtering hour 10 70 1 hr assisted must provide own targets
Electron Microscopy (Delong America LVEM-5) sample 30 90 1 hr assisted
Electron Microscopy sample prep sample - 30 1 hr assisted plus materials charge
Particle Analysis/Zeta Potential (Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS) hour 25 85 1 hr assisted
Isothermal Calorimetry hour 100 160 1 hr assisted

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Chemical Separation/Identification

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Prep - HPLC sample 20 40 min 1 hour
LC-MS (Agilent 1260 Infinity) sample 15 75 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents are not provided by user
GC-MS (Agilent 7820A GS with 5975 MS) sample 15 75 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents/gases are not provided by user
Flash Chromatography sample 10 70 1 hr assisted Does not include solvents or columns
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-Proton sample 3 63 2 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-other hour 9 69 3 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
Elemental Analysis (ICP-OES Varian 720-ES) hour 40 100 1 hr assisted

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Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
High Speed Centrifugation (Beckman JXN-30) hour 15 15* 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Centrifugation (Eppindorf 5840R) hour 15 15* 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Flow Cytometry (Attune NxT) hour 40 100 $30 set up fee
Cell Sorting  (Sony SH800Z) hour 40 100 $30 set up fee; $50 chip cost
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD ChemiDoc MP) month 7 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD Gel Doc Go) month 7 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD) month 7 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Microplate Readers hour 30 90
Stopped Flow Kinetics (Kintek SF-300X) hour 60 120
Peptide Synthesis (CEM Liberty Blue Auto)
Cryotank Storage month 3 -
Quantitative PCR (ABI Quant 5) plate 25 85 25
Digital Droplet PCR (BioRAD) reaction 2 - plus 7.5 per run; *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Disruptor (Qiagen TissueLyser II) sample 40 60
Tissue Dissociator (Miltenyi Biotec OctoMACS) sample 10 20 25
Plate Washer (Biotek) month 6 - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (large) month 50 - 50 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (small) month 50 - 50 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour

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Field Biology

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Climate Chambers (Memmert HPP 750 eco) 3 units day 15 75 $30 set up fee
Electrofishing barge and equipment day 25 85 1 day fee
Portable Photosynthesis System (LiCOR 6800F) day 25 85 1 day fee
Water and Soil Potential Measurement (METER Group WP4C) sample 2 4 30 Acad/60 Ind
Portable Gas Exchange System (LiCOR 6400XT) day 25 85 1 day fee
Leaf Scanner (Regent Instruments WinRHIZO) sample 2 85 30 Acad/60 Ind

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Microscopy

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Inverted Fluorescence Microscopy (Nikon TE 2000) hour 15 75 1 hour fee
Confocal Microscopy (Nikon Laser scanning FV3000) hour 30 90 1 hour fee
Microtome (Leica SM2010) hour 10 70 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades
Cryostat Microtome (Leica CM1512) hour 15 75 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades

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Exercise and Sports Science

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Sports Science Hub (Motion Capture and Analysis) hour 40 100 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) hour 35 95 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) scan 15 45 N/A client may choose cheaper of per hour or per scan rate
Laser Therapy (Light Force) hour 15 75 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Metabolic Testing hour 15 75 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments

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Communication Disorders/Audiology 

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Clinical Audiology Lab (10 instruments) day 100 100* N/A *$60 assistance fee
Mobile Audiology Lab day 30 30* N/A *$60 assistance fee
AAC Lab incl/Eye-Tracking Hardware and Analysis day 60 30* N/A *$60 assistance fee
Boothless Audiology Lab day 30 30* N/A *$60 assistance fee

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Computer Science

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server usage /% cap-month 10 -
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server storage /TB-month 25 -

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Spectroscopy

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Raman Microscopy - Horiba LabRAM 800 hour 100 160 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Cary 100 hour 60 120 1 hr assisted
UV/Vis Spectroscopy - Shimadzu hour 60 120 1 hr assisted
FTIR Spectroscopy - Thermo-Nicolet Nexus 670 hour 60 120 1 hr assisted
Fluorescence (Horiba Fluoromax 4C - three inst) hour 100 160 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (NanoDrop ONE) hour 60 120 1 hr assisted
Microvolume Spectroscopy (KKS) hour 60 120 1 hr assisted

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Materials Analysis

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
X-Ray Powder Diffraction (Bruker D2 Phaser) sample 100 160 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (Dektak 150) hour 100 160 1 hr assisted
Stylus Surface Profilometry (KLA -Tencor Alpha Step) hour 30 90 1 hr assisted
X-Ray Fluorescence (Malvern Panalytical Epsilon 4) sample 100 160 1 hr assisted $75 fee for fusion sample prep
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TA Instruments Q20) hour 50 110 1 hr assisted
Thermogravitic Analysis (TA Instruments TGA/DSC Q600) hour 50 110 1 hr assisted
Reacting Annealing/Physical Vapor Deposition hour 50 110 1 hr assisted plus gas charge & cost of suscepter
Thin Film Plasma Sputtering hour 50 110 1 hr assisted must provide own targets
Electron Microscopy (Delong America LVEM-5) sample 100 160 1 hr assisted
Electron Microscopy sample prep sample - 75 1 hr assisted plus materials charge
Particle Analysis/Zeta Potential (Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS) hour 100 160 1 hr assisted
Isothermal Calorimetry hour 200 260 1 hr assisted

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Chemical Separation/Identification

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Prep - HPLC sample 200/hour min 1 hour
LC-MS (Agilent 1260 Infinity) sample 100 160 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents are not provided by user
GC-MS (Agilent 7820A GS with 5975 MS) sample 100 160 1 hr assisted $5 charge per sample if solvents/gases are not provided by user
Flash Chromatography sample 100 160 1 hr assisted Does not include solvents or columns
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-Proton sample 24 84 2 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
NMR Spectrometry (Bruker Advance II HD 400MHz)-other hour 110 170 3 hr assisted Does not include tubes or solvents
Elemental Analysis (ICP-OES Varian 720-ES) hour 150 210 1 hr assisted

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Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
High Speed Centrifugation (Beckman JXN-30) hour 100 100* 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Centrifugation (Eppindorf 5840R) hour 100 100* 25 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Flow Cytometry (Attune NxT) hour 120 180 $50 set up fee
Cell Sorting  (Sony SH800Z) hour 120 180 $63 set up fee; $50 chip cost
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD ChemiDoc MP) month 10/sample - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD Gel Doc Go) month 10/sample - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Gel Imaging/Transilluminator (BioRAD) month 10/sample - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Microplate Readers hour 100 160
Stopped Flow Kinetics (Kintek SF-300X) hour 250 310
Peptide Synthesis (CEM Liberty Blue Auto)
Cryotank Storage month 10/sample -
Quantitative PCR (ABI Quant 5) plate 100 160 25
Digital Droplet PCR (BioRAD) reaction 10 - plus 10 per run; *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Disruptor (Qiagen TissueLyser II) sample 100 120
Tissue Dissociator (Miltenyi Biotec OctoMACS) sample 50 60 25
Plate Washer (Biotek) month 60/yr or 5/plate - *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (large) month 200 or 20/day - 50 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour
Tissue Culture Room (small) month 200 or 20/day - 50 *$60/hour for assistance - min 1/2 hour

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Field Biology

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Climate Chambers (Memmert HPP 750 eco) 3 units day 75 135 $60 set up fee
Electrofishing barge and equipment day 125 185 1 day fee
Portable Photosynthesis System (LiCOR 6800F) day 100 160 1 day fee
Water and Soil Potential Measurement (METER Group WP4C) sample 10 20 30 Acad/60 Ind
Portable Gas Exchange System (LiCOR 6400XT) day 100 160 1 day fee
Leaf Scanner (Regent Instruments WinRHIZO) sample 10 20 30 Acad/60 Ind

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Microscopy

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Inverted Fluorescence Microscopy (Nikon TE 2000) hour 60 120 1 hour fee
Confocal Microscopy (Nikon Laser scanning FV3000) hour 120 180 1 hour fee
Microtome (Leica SM2010) hour 50 110 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades
Cryostat Microtome (Leica CM1512) hour 75 135 1 hour fee $1 for replacement blades

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Exercise and Sports Science

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Sports Science Hub (Motion Capture and Analysis) hour 100 160 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) hour 105 165 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Dual Energy X-Ray Analysis (GE Lunar IDXA2) scan 50 80 N/A client may choose cheaper of per hour or per scan rate
Laser Therapy (Light Force) hour 50 110 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments
Metabolic Testing hour 50 110 N/A 0.5 hour minimum billing, 0.25 hour increments

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Communication Disorders/Audiology

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Clinical Audiology Lab (10 instruments) day 300 300* N/A *$60/hr assistance fee
Mobile Audiology Lab day 100 100* N/A *$60/hr assistance fee
AAC Lab incl/Eye-Tracking Hardware and Analysis day 200 200* N/A *$60/hr assistance fee
Boothless Audiology Lab day 100 300* N/A *$60/hr assistance fee

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Computer Science

 Instrument/Service Unit Unassisted Users Assisted Users Training Fee Notes
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server usage /% cap-month 50  -
Web Servers (Dell Poweredge) - server storage /TB-month 100 -

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The INSpRE core is supported through funding from the Nebraska Research Initiative and from its member departments: Chemistry; Biology; Communication Disorders; Kinesiology and Sports Sciences; and Cyber Systems.