Research Guidelines
The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) is committed to providing a safe laboratory and research environment for students and users to conduct their work.
Faculty, staff, students, volunteers, interns, and partners working at JSNN research labs are required to fulfill the safety training requirements before they are granted access to research spaces. Additional safety training may be required based on the tasks being performed or material/equipment used.
For both regulatory compliance and personnel health and safety purposes, specific safety training modules must be completed before researchers are granted access to labs. JSNN offers a variety of safety training modules for faculty, staff, students, partners, collaborators, and interns working with or around hazardous materials, equipment, and processes. The minimum training requirement at JSNN includes laboratory safety and hazardous waste. Below is a list of the required initial and refresher training modules offered at JSNN. PIs are required to provide and document their internal site, process, equipment, or hazard-specific training and make sure that all researchers review the written safety plan/chemical hygiene plan and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Lab card access is granted only after successful completion of the required safety training modulus.
JSNN-ROEHS provides annual lab safety and hazardous waste training sessions, including annual refreshers, for existing and new students. There is also a monthly lab safety and hazardous waste training offered on the first Friday of each month at 1:00-2:30 p.m. Researchers can sign in for the monthly training sessions using this Google form.
All other training requests can be submitted directly to ROEHS (mhfahim@uncg.edu)
List and frequency of the TRAINING sessions
Safety training provided by JSNN Research Operations Environmental Health and Safety (ROEHS)
| Training | Frequency | Required for |
|---|---|---|
| Lab Safety | Annual | All researchers, partners, volunteers, and interns working in research labs |
| Lab Safety for Minors | Annual | All minors as volunteers is research labs |
| Hazardous Waste Safety | Annual | All researchers, partners, volunteers, and interns working in labs where hazardous waste is generated |
| Respiratory Protection Safety | Annual | Approved users of the respirators, including disposable N95 |
| X-ray Safety Awareness | Initial | Those working around X-ray producing devices |
| X-ray Safety | Annual | Users of the X-ray producing devices |
| Nanomaterials Safety | Annual | All JSNN researchers using nanomaterials |
| Biological Safety | Annual | All researchers, partners, guest researchers, and interns working in labs where biological material are used/stored |
| Bloodborne Pathogen Safety | Annual | All researchers, partners, volunteers, and interns working in research labs where bloodborne pathogens are used/stored |
| Fume Hood Safety | Initial | All researchers, partners, volunteers, and interns working with fume hoods |
The following equipment/process-specific training modules are also provided in conjunction with lab/equipment managers
| Training | Frequency | Required for |
|---|---|---|
| Autoclave Safety | Annual | Autoclave users |
| Cleanroom Safety | Annual | Cleanroom users |
| Cryogenic Safety | Annual | Cleanroom users |
| Laser Safety | Annual | Users of class 3B or 4 lasers |
| NMR Safety | Annual | NMR facility users |
| BSL3 Facility Safety | Annual | BSL3 users/researchers |
| Equipment-Specific | Annual | Equipment users |
JSNN Access Request
For JSNN access badge, Submit an access card form to Dr. Nafisa Sirelkhatim at the Dean’s suite.
Procedure for Off-Boarding
To ensure a safe, compliant, and smooth transition, all students are required to fill out the off-boarding checklist upon their graduation and before departure.
Reserving Resources through Facility Online Manager (FOM)
JSNN Core Facility is a shared user facility that provides access to state-of-the-art equipment, specialized services and expert staff at affordable prices. JSNN provides open access to more than 100 fabrication, imaging, characterization, biological, analytical chemistry and computational tools, which are housed in our 105,000 square foot interdisciplinary research facility. Our technical staff members maintain equipment, train users, and perform a variety of service/remote jobs, including development of new processes and characterization methods.
JSNN also provides an ideal teaming environment to facilitate interdisciplinary research in the core areas of our expertise, namely nanomaterials and soft matter, nanoelectronics and bioelectronics, nanomedicine and synthetic biology, and energy and computational nanotechnology.
Approved users can access JSIRT Resources through Facility Online Manager (FOM) based on the dates and functions outlined below.
- Approved internal and external users can use FOM to make calendar reservations, request safety training and instrument-specific training, and submit service requests.
- Contact jsnninfo@uncg.edu for creation of a FOM account and to submit the proper documents.
- Another easy method for accessing FOM is to click the Reserve link (tiny clock icon) in the upper right corner of your screen.
Below are links to videos to help approved users access FOM and make use of its functions.
- How to Find the FOM Log-in Screen and How to Determine Your Username and Password
- How to Reserve Equipment and How to Modify Existing Reservations in FOM
- How to Request Safety Training in FOM
- How to Request Training on Instrumentation in FOM
- How to Log-in and Use the Collaborate and Service Module in FOM
For additional assistance with FOM, please contact jsnninfo@uncg.edu
Resources Available for Reservation
Visit the JSIRT Core Facilities page search for specific available instrumentation. Rates are subject to change. The service rate (staff labor) is $100 per hour for external for-profit organizations (industry) and $50 per hour for internal and external non-profit organizations (academic/government). All charges for service and for instrumentation are rounded to the nearest quarter hour.
Directory of Labs
- L102 Nanobiology
- L103A BSL3
- L104 Nanophysics
- L105, L106, L108 Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials, Fabrication
- L110 Biology Cleanroom
- L110 Electronics Cleanroom
- L201 Hydroponics
- L203 Genomics
- L206 Nanochemistry
- L205, L208 Fermentation
- L210 Energy
- BL07 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- BL05 Analytical Lab
- BL04 Sample Preparation Room
- BL03 Atomic Force Microscopy Lab
- BL02B Helium Ion Microscopy Lab
- BL02A Transmission Electron Microscopy Lab
- BL02 Scanning Electron Microscopy Lab
- BL01A Optics Lab