OUR FACILITIES
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.
The full list of Departmental research instruments is below. Recent large acquisitions include a Bruker Kappa x-ray diffractometer and two Applied Biosystems triple quadrupole mass spectrometers, purchased with funding from the Major Research Instrumentation Program of the National Science Foundation.
Spectrophotometer / Fluorometer (NanoDrop)
DeNovix DS-11 FX+
Tracer III-V SD Handheld XRF
Bruker
Luminescence Spectrophotometer
Perkin Elmer
X-Ray Diffractometer
Bruker
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 100
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 300
Spectrofluorometer
PTI QuantaMaster
FTIR
Perkin-Elmer Spectrum One (quantity 3)
FTIR
Perkin-Elmer FX
NMR
Varian Mercury 300
NMR
Varian XL-300
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Cary 50 (quantity 3)
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Perkin-Elmer Lambda 35
Ellipsometer
Chemiluminescence Analyzers
Nitrogen: Antek 720, Sievers 270B
Sulfur: Sievers 350
GC/MS
Thermo ISQ GC/MS
HPLC
Shimadzu LC-20AB with SPD-M20A
GC/MS
Shimadzu QP-2010 Plus
GC/FID
Hewlett-Packard 5890 (quantity 3)
GC/FID
Shimadzu
GC/ECD
Thermo Trace
HPLC
Waters 600/480 LC
HPLC
Varian Prostar
HPLC
Thermo
HPLC
Hewlett-Packard 1050
LC/MS/MS
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC
Applied Biosystems 3200 Q-TRAP MS/MS
LC/MS/MS
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC
Applied Biosystems API 2000 MS/MS
HPLC
Shimadzu Prominence HPLC
Fluorescence Laser scanner
Typhoon FLA 9500
Molecular Imager
Bio-Rad Personal Molecular Imager
TC 20 Cell Counter
Bio-Rad
FPLC
BioLogic DuoFlow F10 Workstation
Incubator Shaker
Excella E25
Gel Imaging System
UVP EC3
PCR Thermal Cycler
T100™ Thermal Cycler
-80 Freezer
U725 Innova
High-pressure homogenizer
Avestin EmulsiFlex C5
UV-Visible Plate Reader
BioRad Benchmark Plus
60,000 G Centrifuge
2X Beckman Avanti J-E
1,000,000 G Centrifuge
Kendro-Sorvall Microcentrifuge
-80 °C Freezer
So-Low Environmental
Incubator and Shaker
New Brunswick Scientific
Tube Furnace (Thermodyne)
Thermogravimetric Analyzer
Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Solar Simulator (Manufactured In-House)
Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
Glove Box (quantity 3)
Solvent Purification System
Dionex ASE200 Accelerated Solvent Extractor
RESEARCH NEWS
Villanova Chemist Receives $579,508 Grant from NSF to Support His Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.