OUR FACILITIES
The Chemistry and Biochemistry Department has 35,000 square feet of instructional laboratories, each designed for a different subdiscipline of chemistry with specialized instrumentation and facilities.
Chemistry and Biochemistry 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
Accelerated Solvent Extractor
Dionex ASE200 (Quantity 2)
Air Sampler
Tisoh TE-6070-BL
Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Perkin Elmer DSC8000
Glove Box
(Quantity 3)
Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
Nima 611M-100
Microwave Reactor
Anton Parr Monowave 50+
Microwave Synthesizer
Anton Paar Monowave 300
Solar Simulator
Manufactured In-House
Solvent Purification System
MBRAUN
Thermogravimetric Analyzer
Tube Furnace
Thermodyne