Instrumentation

Because faculty members are active in research as well as teaching, National Science Foundation grants and other funds have provided advanced equipment for student and faculty use:

• Bruker Avance III 400 MHz broadband NMR spectrometer with multinuclear probe, variable temperature control, and automatic sample changer
• Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS10 fourier transform infrared spectrometer with Smart iTR diamond attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory
• Thermo Scientific Evolution 300 Peltier-thermostatted scanning multicell UV/Visible spectrophotometer with fiber optic sampling capabilities
• Snowy Range Instruments Sierra IM-52 Raman spectrophotometric microscope
• Vacuum Atmospheres 103991 Solvent Purification System
• Biotage Initiator Robot 8 Automated Microwave Reactor System
• Beckman DU-7400 themostatted diode-array multicell UV/visible spectrophotometer
• Continuum Nd:YAG-pumped dye laser system
• Coherent DPSS-pumped 899-29 Ti:dye ring laser
• Buck Scientific Accusys 211 atomic absorption spectrophotometer
• Buck Scientific 410 cold vapor mercury analyzer
• Agilent 5973/6890N gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) system with autosampler
• Hewlett-Packard 5890 capillary gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector (FID)
• Waters HPLC apparatus
• Johnson Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
• CH Instruments 1200A electrochemical analyzer (potentiostat)
• Multiple Vacuum Atmospheres glove boxes
• Multiple inert atmosphere/vacuum double manifold Schlenk lines with gas purification systems
• Athlon computational cluster (12 dual processors) and four Linux workstations for parallel computing
• Amersham Biosciences UPC-900 AKTA fast protein liquid chromatograph
• Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer
• Coy Laboratory Products anaerobic chamber
• Savant Modulyo lyophilizer
• Cary 50 Bio thermostatted UV/visible spectrophotometer (shared with Biology)
• Philips PW2400 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (in the Geology Department)
• Zeiss DSM 960A Scanning Electron Microscope with Robinson Backscatter Electron Detector and Oxford Instruments Energy Dispersive X-ray Detector (in the Geology Department)
• PANalytical X’PERT Pro X-ray Diffractometer (in the Geology Department)