Major Equipment Available in the Chemistry Department

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
Bruker AC-300 BB

Specs:
300 MHz Superconducting Magnet
Proton/carbon and most heteronuclei
Variable Temperature Accessory
PC remote workstation

Infrared Spectrometers

  • Midac Prospect FTIR (2)
  • Mattson Galaxy 5000 FTIR
  • Bruker Equinox 55 with DTGS and MCT detectors (Dow Corning Foundation Grant)

UV-VIS Spectrophotometers

  • Shimadzu UV 160U
  • Shimadzu UV 2101PC with scanning Monochrometer (0.1 nm resolution)

Gas Chromatography

  • Perkin-Elmer Sigma 3B Dual FID
  • Gow-Mac 350 Thermal Conductivity (4)

High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography
Gilson Modular System under Computer Control HP 1100 GPC (Dow-Corning Foundation Grant)

Specs:
Variable Wavelength UV/VIS Detector
Wyatt miniDAWN Multi-angle Light-Scattering Detector
Optilab 903 Refractive Index Detector

GC-Mass Spectrometer
Varian Saturn 2000

Specs:
Varian 3800 GC
Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer

Spectrofluorimeter
Shimadzu RF-5301

Specs:
Double Scanning Monochrometers
Variable Temperature Cell Holder

Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrophotometer
Thermo Jarrell Ash Atom Scan 25

Specs:
Microwave Digester
Autosampler
Ultrasonic Nebulizer

Centrifuge
Beckman J2-HS

Polymer Characterization (Dow-Corning Foundation Grant)

  • AST 2500 XE Video Contact-Angle Goniometer
  • PE DSC-7 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
  • Rheometric Scientific Advanced Rheometric Expansion System Rheometer