Equipment List

Instruments for Spectroscopy:

  • Horiba Fluoromax spectrophotometer with lifetime and quantum yield measurement capabilities
  • Shimadzu UV-1900-i UV-Vis spectrophotometer
  • Cary UV-Vis spectrophotometer (2014)
  • Horiba/Jobin Yvon FluoroMax-4 steady-state fluorometer (2010)
  • Thermo Nicolet IR200 FTIR Spectrometer System (2007): 7800 to 375 cm-1spectral range and 16 to 4 cm-1 resolution; used in organic teaching lab
  • FTIR spectrometer: Thermo Nicolet Nexus 670 System with near- and far-IR scanning and detection capabilities. 0.09 cm-1resolution and scanning speeds up to 65 scans per second (2003

 

Instruments for Chromatography or Separation

  • Jasco 4000 series HPLC
  • Advion/Interchim Flash Chromatography system
  • Agilent 1260 Infinity LC-MS
  • Agilent 7820A GC-MS (5975 series MSD) with autosampler (2011) 
  • GE AKTA Prime Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography System (2005)
  • Waters Gradient High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph System (2003)
  • Gilson 2020 Preparative HPLC (2014) 
  • Teledyne CombiFlash Next Gen300+ Flash Chromatography System (2019)

 

Instruments for Thermal Measurements

  • TA Instruments NanoITC Isothermal Titration Calorimetry System (2013)
  • TA Instruments Simultaneous Differential Thermal Analyzer (TGA/DSC) Q600 (2011)
  • TA Instruments Differential Scanning Calorimeter Q20 (2011)     

 

Instruments for Materials Characterization and Development

  • Delong America, Inc. LVEM-5 (Low-voltage Electron Microscope) with TEM, SEM, STEM and ED imaging modes (2011)
  • Bruker D2 Phaser Powder X-Ray diffraction spectrometer
  • Veeco Dektak 150 Stylus Profiler (2010)
  • Custom-built DC Thin Film Sputtering System (2010)
  • Horiba/Jobin Yvon LabRAM HR800 Raman Microscope (2007)
  • Custom-built Physical Vapor Deposition apparatus with 8000W Quad Ellipse Chamber Heat and Model 915 Power Supply/Temperature Controller from Research Inc.  Includes turbo-molecular and roughing pumps (2006)
  • Johnson-Matthey Mark I Magnetic Susceptibility Balance (1998) 
  • Alpha-Step D-500 Stylus Profilometer (2017)
  • Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS (2017)
  • Malvern Panalytical Epsilon 4 X-Ray Fluorimeter (2018)
  • Claisse Leneo Fusion XRF sampling system (2018)

 

Instruments for Atomic or Molecular Identification

  • Bruker Advance III HD 400MHz NMR with variable temperature controller, multiple probes, and autosampler (2017)
  • Varian 720-ES Axial ICP Optical Emission Spectrometer (2009)

 

Instruments for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Biotek Synergy 2 UV/Vis/Fluorescent Microplate Reader with Dispenser System (2006)
  • Eppendorf PCR Thermocycler (2004)
  • Autoclave: Tuttnauer Model 3870EP (2015)
  • Incubators: Innova Model 4000 (1996)*; Fischer Precision (1996)
  • BioRad Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis system (2019)
  • Liberty Blue Auto Microwave Peptide Synthesis System (2019)
  • KinTek SF-300X Stopped Flow Kinetics System (2018)
  • Implen P-30-NSW Nanophotometer
  • Biotek Synergy H1MD Microplate Reader (2019)

 

Instruments for 3-D Printing

  • Utilmaker 3-D printers (4)
  • Kudo Titan 3-D Digital Light Processing Printer
  • XYZ Printing da Vinci Series Full Color 3D Printer