The Department of Chemistry and Forensic Scienceis well equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation. The instrumentation is housed in a centralized instrumentation room and is used for teaching and chemical research.
If you have collaborative needs to use our equipment, please contact the Instrument Specialist Tracy Gastineau-Stevens to schedule an appointment for training and discuss consumables if applicable.
Spectroscopy / Microscopy
- (1) JEOL ECS 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
- (1) Biotek Synergy 2 UV-vis Plate Reader
- (4) Agilent 8454 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers
- (6) Perkin Elmer and Cary UV-visible Spectrometers
- (1) Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrometer
- (1) First Defender Raman Handheld Spectrometer
- (1) Jordan Valley XRF EDX-6600
- (1) Thermo S-series AA Spectrometer with Autosampler
- (4) Perkin Elmer Spectrum 100 FTIRs: 2 with Diamond ATR and Microscopes
- (2) Thermo Nicolet Summit FTIR Instruments
- (1) Agilent 5100 SVDV ICP-OES with Autosampler
Microscopy
- (1) Hitachi FlexiSEM 1000 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
- (1) Hitachi Probe Station Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) 5000II
- (17) Leica Polarizing Light Microscopes
- (17) Leica Stereoscopes
- (4) Comparison Microscopes
Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry
- (2) HP 6890 GC-FID
- (2) Thermo Focus GC-TCD
- (1) Thermo Focus GC-FID
- (1) Agilent 1100 HPLC with DAD Detector
- (1) Varian GC-MS (3800 GC with 2000 Saturn MS) with Pyrolyzer
- (1) Perkin Elmer Clarus 560S GC-MS
- (1) Thermo Scientific LTQ XL Mass Spectrometer that can be interfaced to Dionex Ultimate 3000 LC using electrospray or nanospray (DART/DESI ionization also available for the LTQ)
- (2) Bio-Rad Gel Electrophoresis 2D System
Miscellaneous
- (2) Beckman Coulter, High Performance Centrifuge, Avanti J-E
- (2) Buchi Rotary Evaporator System (w/ vacuum pump), R-215
- (1) Milestone Ethos UP Microwave Digestion
- (2) CHI 400B Potentiostats
- (1) MBraun Labmaster 130 Glovebox
- (1) UVP Gelstudio Touch Gel Documentation System
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Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detection |
Gas Chromatograph – Mass Spectrometry |
Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy |
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Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry |
Plate Reader |
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Comparison Microscope |
Light Microscope/ Stereoscope |
UV-Vis Spectroscopy |
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Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry with Pyrolyzer |
Atomic Absorption (AA) |
Microscopy |