Instrumentation and Equipment

Our students have use of a wide range of instrumentation and equipment as part of their training in our academic laboratories. Student/faculty research projects often make use of specialized equipment.

Instrumentation and Equipment in the Department of Chemistry

Our holdings currently include:

Anasazi 60-MHz NMR spectrometer with multinuclear probe
Shimadzu QP2010 SE GCMS system with NIST library
Shimadzu AA7000 atomic absorption spectrometer with graphite furnace and autosampler
NIcolet iN10/iZ10 FTIR Microscope
Horiba Fluromax-4C research spectrofluorometer with Peltier thermocouple drive
Bruker Tensor 27 Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer with Harrick attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory; MCT and TGS detectors
Smiths IdentifyIR ATR FTIR spectrometer
CEM Discover microwave reactor
Büchi dual-pump flash chromatography system with UV detector
Varian ProStar liquid chromatography system with autosampler and UV/Vis and fluorescence detectors
Dell PowerEdge R620 computational node (16 core) running VASP, MOE, and Materials Studio visualizer
Computational chemistry laboratory workstations with Gaussian
SRI 8610C gas chromatograph
Varian Cary 1E UV/visible spectrophotometer
Büchi rotary evaporators
Millrock BT85 Freeze Dryer
Turner Design TD800 fluorometer
Bio-Tek FLx800 fluorescence microplate reader
Hewlett-Packard (Agilent) 5890 GC/MS system
Abbe Refractometer
Ocean Optics UV/Visible spectrophotometers
Vernier visible spectrophotometers
Vernier interface modules and assorted sensors
Pasco interface modules and assorted sensors
IKA Ultra-Turax homogenizer
vacuum oven, drying oven, muffle furnace, and incubator
Bruker Daltonics Clinprot robot
Perkin Elmer ATD 400 automated thermal desorber
assorted glassware in various scales
assorted analytical balances
assorted stirring hotplates and shakers

Other departments on our campus have specialized equipment that is occasionally used by our students to support their research projects. For example, our students might use these tools.

Department of Biology

JEOL scanning electron microscope
Olympus fluorescence microscope
LiCor DNA analyzer
PCR thermal cyclers

Department of Physics

Atomic force microscope
X-ray powder diffractometer

Off-campus Colleagues in Chemistry

Because of our proximity to other institutions, our students sometimes utilize specialized instrumentation and resources off-campus. In recent years, students have benefited from our collegial relationships with