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Stellenbosch University (formally University of Stellenbosch; Afrikaans: Universiteit van Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in the town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Other nearby universities are the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape.

Stellenbosch University (abbreviated as SU) designed and manufactured Africa's first microsatellite, SUNSAT, launched in 1999.

The students of Stellenbosch University are nicknamed Maties. Some claim the term arises from their maroon rugby colours: a tamatie is the Afrikaans translation for tomato. It is more likely to come from the Afrikaans colloquialism maat (meaning "buddy" or "mate") originally used diminutively by the students of theUniversity of Cape Town's precursor, the South African College.

Equipment at this Institution

1 SOLiD4 Sequencer
2 Synapt G2 Quadrupole TOF Mass Spectrometer Mass Spectrometer (MS)
3 High Pressure Differential Scanning Calorimeter Sorption Analysis Capability
4 Applied Photophysics Circular Dichroism Fluorescence Spectrometer
5 Portable Biomechanical Analysis System Xsens
6 Becton Dickinson FACS Jazz, 3 laser, 6 colour (2 blue, 2 red, 2 violet)
7 Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid mass spectrometer Mass Spectrometer (MS)
8 Noraxon Portable Biomechanical Analysis System
9 Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (2)Anatech Mass Spectrometer (MS)
10 Jeol JEM 1200EXII Electron Microscopes
11 Spectra Physics Tsunami Laser
12 Varian Cary 1E UV-VIS Spectrophotometer Spectrophotometer
13 Carbolite Vertical Tube Furnaces
14 Waters 2690 HPLC Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
15 Shimadzu Waters 464 Pulsed Electrochemical Detector
16 ThermoFisher Q1955 Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap Velos Mass Spectrometer Mass Spectrometer (MS)
17 Büchiglasuster Polyclave
18 Anton Paar MCR501 Rheometer
19 Analytical Diagnostic Products Tri-Carb 2100TR Scintillation Analyser
20 Ideal Aerosmith 1270VS Single Axis Rate Table
21 Bruker Single-crystal X-ray Diffractometer X-ray Diffractometer (XRD)
22 Kendro Sorvall RC-5C Plus Centrifuge
23 Instron Tester Machine
24 Shimadzu Thermo Gravimetric Analyser TGA-50
25 Thermo Separation SpectraSYSTEM
26 Leco FP - 528 Nitrogen Analyser
27 Becton Dickinson BACTEC 960TB system MGIT
28 Bio-Tek FL600 Microplate Fluorescence Reader
29 Turner Biosystems Microplate Fluorometer 9300-002
30 Biotage Microwave Reactor Initiator
31 Hyox Clinica 2000/OC Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber
32 Sechrist Sechrist 3200 Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber
33 Vicon Motion MX Motion Analysis System
34 Becton Dickinson BACTEC 960TB System Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube
35 Leco TC500 Nitrogen and Oxygen Analyser
36 Waters Micromass GCT Premier Gas Chromatograph (GC) Time Of Light (TOF) Mass Spectrometer (MS) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
37 Genevac EZ-2
38 MBraun LAbstar Glovebox
39 Agilent HPLC 100 Series Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
40 Dionex HPLC UltiMate 3000 Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
41 General Electric Phoenix L240 + NF180 Industrial CT Scanner
42 Xsens MVN Inertial Motion Capture System
43 ADC BioScientific LCPro + Infrared Gas Analyser
44 Instron 8800 Controller
45 Shimadzu LC-10AVP Series HPLC System Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
46 Finnigan FOCUSTM GC
47 Becton Dickinson FACSAira I Flow Cytometer (FC)
48 Thermo Nicolet Nexus 670 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
49 VirTis Freezer Dryer Freeze dryer
50 Varian 3380 Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
51 Agilent Technologies HP G1800A Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
52 Varian 3400 Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
53 Agilent Technologies HP 5890 Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
54 Thermo Electron Focus Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
55 Thermo Electron AI 3000 Gas Chromatograph (GC) Gas Chromatograph (GC)
56 Carbolite BLF 1800 (Bottom Loading Furnace)
57 Bruker Alpha-T ATR-FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
58 Carbolite Carbolite Tube Furnace
59 Bio-Rad CHEF DR-III Electrophoresis System
60 Micromeritics Saturn DigiSizer 5200 DigiSizer Particle Size Analyser Particle size analyser
61 Wykham Farrance Digishear WF25420 Direct Shear Machine
62 Rotorgene DNA Sequence - Real Time PCR Instrumentation
63 Bruker Biospin EMXPlus8/2.7 Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer (ESRS) Electron Spin Resonance spectrometer (ESR)
64 Carl Zeiss Superresolution ELYRA S1 with SR-SIM and LSM 780 technology
65 Resonetics M-50-LR Excimer Laser Ablation System Laser Ablation system
66 Clark CPA-2101 XMR Laser
67 Bio-Tek Instrument Synergy HT Multi-detection Microplate Reader
68 Corbett Life Sciences Rotor-Gene 6000
69 Varian VNMRS 500, Wide Bore 500 MHz Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (VNMRS) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)
70 PANalytical Accessories for existing X-ray Powder Diffractometer (XPD) X-ray Diffractometer (XRD)
71 API Cyax API 2000 Series HPLC Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
72 Gom Optical 3D Aramis System
73 Varian SpectrAA 250 Plus Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Spectrophotometer
74 Skalar 2000/154 Auto Analyser
75 Leica XL ST5010 Autosteiner