OUR FACILITIES

A student and professor work in the lab.

The Chemistry Department has 35,000 square feet of instructional laboratories, each designed for a different subdiscipline of chemistry with specialized instrumentation and facilities.

Chemistry majors learn in a specialized laboratory space complete with modern instrumentation, promoting faculty-student interactions and personalized instruction.

A list of major Departmental research instruments is below. Recent large acquisitions include 500 MHz and 400 MHz JEOL NMRs, as well as SCIEX 5600+ TripleTOF and 4500 QTrap LC-MS/MS instruments, purchased with funding from the Major Research Instrumentation Program of the National Science Foundation.

 

NMR
JEOL ECZ500R

NMR
JEOL ECZ400S

Handheld X-ray Fluorescence
Bruker Tracer III-V SDr

Spectrofluorometer
Perkin Elmer LS55

Spectrofluorometer
PTI QuantaMaster

Spectrofluorometer
Horiba FluoroMax Plus C

Spectrofluorometer
Horiba FluoroMax-3 (quantity 2)

X-Ray Diffractometer
Bruker AXS

Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 100

Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer PinAAcle 900F

FTIR
Perkin-Elmer Spectrum One (quantity 3)

FTIR
Perkin-Elmer Spectrum Two

UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer
Agilent Cary 5000

UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Agilent Cary 50 (quantity 2)

UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Jasco V-750

UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer Lambda 35

Spectrophotometer / Fluorometer (NanoVolume)
DeNovix DS-11 FX+

Ellipsometer
Gaertner Scientific L2W26D488

Chemiluminescence Analyzers
Nitrogen: Antek 720, Sievers 270B
Sulfur: Sievers 350

LC/MS/MS
SCIEX 5600+ TripleTOF LC-MS/MS

LC/MS/MS
SCIEX 4500 QTrap LC-MS/MS

LC/MS/MS
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC
Applied Biosystems 3200 Q-TRAP MS/MS

GC/MS
Thermo ISQ GC/MS

GC/MS
Thermo Trace 1300 GC/MS

GC/MS
Shimadzu QP-2010 Plus

GC/FID
Hewlett-Packard 5890 (quantity 3)

GC/FID
Hewlett-Packard 6890

GC/FID
Shimadzu

GC/ECD
Thermo Trace GC Ultra with 5890 II detector

Flash Chromatography
Biotage Isolera

Flash Chromatography
Teledyne CombiFlash NEXTGEN 300+

HPLC
Waters 600/480 LC

HPLC
Varian Prostar

HPLC
Thermo

HPLC
Shimadzu LC-20AB with SPD-M20A

HPLC
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC

HPLC
Hewlett-Packard 1050

Fluorescence Laser scanner
Typhoon FLA 9500

Surface Plasmon Resonance
Nicoya OpenSPR

Cell Counter
Bio-Rad TC20

FPLC
AKTA Go

Incubator Shaker
Excella E25

Incubator Shaker
New Brunswick Scientific R1246

Gel Imaging System
UVP EC3

PCR Thermal Cycler
T100™ Thermal Cycler (quantity 3)

-80 Freezer
U725 Innova

-80 °C Freezer
Thermo TLE50086A

-80 °C Freezer
So-Low Environmental

High-pressure homogenizer
Avestin EmulsiFlex C5

Sonicator
Branson sonifier SFX550

UV-Visible Plate Reader
BioRad Benchmark Plus

Multimode Plate Reader
BMG CLARIOstar Plus

High Speed Centrifuge
Beckman Avanti J-E (quantity 2)

Ultra Centrifuge
Sorvall Discovery M150

Tube Furnace
Thermodyne

Thermogravimetric Analyzer

Differential Scanning Calorimeter

Solar Simulator
Manufactured In-House

Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
Nima 611M-100

Glove  Box
(Quantity 3)

Solvent Purification System
MBRAUN

Accelerated Solvent Extractor
Dionex ASE200 (Quantity 2)

Microwave Reactor
Anton Parr Monowave 50+

Air Sampler
Tisoh TE-6070-BL

RESEARCH NEWS

Daniel Kraut, PhD, associate professor of Chemistry at Villanova.

Villanova Chemist Receives $579,508 Grant from NSF to Support His Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.