Instrumentation
Our department has a variety of equipment for students to use in
laboratory course work and in faculty mentored undergraduate
research. The equipment is meant to provide students with a
hands-on experience in sample preparation, data collection and data
analysis. Students may begin to use instrumentation as early as
second semester of their first year of study, but will routinely
use the instrumentation during upper level laboratory courses.
In addition to small equipment (such as pH meters) the
department maintains the following larger equipment for student and
faculty use:
Synthetic equipment
- Multiple vacuum manifolds
- Schlenk glassware
- Explosion - proof refrigerators
- Chromatotron radial chromatograph
- MBraun Solvent Purification System
Microwave reactors
- CEM Discover Labmate
- CEM MARS Multiuser
IR spectrometers
- BioRad FTS700 FTIR
- 2 Thermo Scientific,
Nicolet iS10 FT-IR Spectrometer w/ ATR capability
NMR
- Bruker AVANCE 250 MHz NMR with BVT variable temperature unit
and multinuclear, 1H and dual 1H / 13 C 5mm probes
Spectrometers
- Cary 50 UV/Vis
- Perkin Elmer 305B AA spectrometer
- PSA atomic fluorescence spectrophotometer
- Perkin Elmer LS55 Fluorimeter with plate reader
- Varian Ultramass 700 ICP-MS
Separation Instrumentation
- HP1050 series HPLC system
- Alltech 726 quaternary HPLC pump with UV detector
- Novex XCell II and Gibco BRL electrophoresis apparatus
- Agilent 6890 GC
- Metrohm ion Chromatograph
- 2 Varian GC/MS/MS
- Varian 310 LC-triple quad MS
Electrochemical Equipment
Other
- Laser Photonics Nitrogen Laser, Dye Laser, and Frequency
doubler
- FEI Model E3 Environmental SEM with Oxford Instruments ISIS
surface X-ray analysis
- Sorvall RC28S centrifuge
- Instrument Specialists Inc (ISI) Differential Scanning
Calorimeter Model DSC 550
- So - Low PH85-5 -80°C freezer
- BioCold chromatography refrigerator