The Chemistry Department currently occupies roughly 50,000 square feet on the second floor of the Burson building, which was designed for the departments of chemistry and physics and completed in 1986. The Chemistry Department area will be expanded to include part of the first floor of the Burson building in 2005. Currently over 16,000 square feet of space is devoted to chemistry research activities including additional laboratory space (and access to a class 1000 clean room facility) in the nearby Cameron Applied Research Center.
Departmental Instrumentation:
NMR Instrumentation
State-of-the-art multinuclear 500 MHz spectrometer with gradient shimming used for 2D and multinuclear experiments. NMR is equipped with autosampler and auto tuning.Three 300 MHz spectrometers typically used for 1H and 13C spectra.
Solid state probe for 300 MHz Spectrometer
Mass Spec Intrumentation
Electrospray time of flight mass spectrometerMALDI time of flight mass spectrometer
Two quadrupole GC mass spectrometers Ion trap GC/MS with direct insertion probe and chemical ionization
Separation Instrumentation
HP 1050 HPLC with autosampler and photodiode array detectionWaters HPLC with duel wavelength detection
GPC *
CZE (Capillary Zone Electrophoresis) with diode array detection
CE-LIF (Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection) *
Preparative scale automated flash chromatography system *
Capillary HPLC with variable wavelength detection(can be coupled to the Electrospray mass spectrometer) *
Preparative gel electrophoresis apparatus
GC-IR
Other various capillary GC's
Optical Instrumentation
FTIR with PM-IRRAS bench, microscope and step scan capabilityUV-Vis spectrometer
Fluorescence spectrometer with a micro well plate reader
Fourier transform NIR raman
Dispersive raman
Micro raman system with 532nm and 632nm excitation lasers *
Pulsed laser systems including N2, Nd:YAG, and dye lasers
Circular dichroism spectrometer
Atomic absorption spectrometer, flame and graphite furnace
Optics Center Instrumentation
(see the COOC site for a comprehensive list of facilities)SEM with EDAX
FESEM
Raith 150 electron beam lithography
Nanoman AFM
Variable angle elipsometer
Vacuum metal evaporation system
X-Ray Instrumentation
Small angle X-Ray scattering * Research SiteTwo single crystal X-ray diffractometers *
Other Facilities and Instrumentation
Ultra-centrifugeUltra high vacuum STM *
Cold room
Atomic force microscope *
PAR 273 Potentiostat/Galvanostat *
Portable vacuum line with turbo-pump and mass analyzer
BET automated surface area analyzer *
Metal plasma deposition system (metal sputter coater) *
TGA (Thermogravimetric Analysis) *
TMA (ThermoMechanical Analyzer) *
DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimeter) *
Vacuum speed evaporator (Speed Vac)
ESR spectrometer
Molecular and materials modeling using Origin 300 and an eight R1400 500 MHz processor computer system *
Fully equipped Class 1000 clean room
Solvent purification system (water and oxygen free) dimethyl formamide, tetrahydrofuran, ethyl ether, acetonitrile, dichloromethane, toluene and pentane
* Instrumentation in faculty research laboratories that could be available on a collaborative basis.
Computer Resources:
Many departmental instruments and research computers are connected to the university maintained Novell network. The department also maintains a network of Silicon Graphics and Microsoft Windows workstations for computational chemistry.
The university Information Technology department provides access to the Internet and to the state supercomputer facility. A jointly maintained student computer laboratory is housed in the building. Electronic literature searching using ACS SciFinder Scholar software is available on departmental computers.
The Chemistry/Physics Student Computer Lab, with state-of-the-art systems is also located in the Burson Building. This lab is connected to the campus-wide network allowing students access to fast Internet connections and personal, networked hard drive space which is available from any lab on campus and via the Internet.
Many popular programs are available for student use, including Microsoft Office, PC Spartan Pro, the Cambridge Crystallographic Database and others.
Shops and Technical Staff:
The department employs two full-time Instrument Specialists to maintain departmental instrumentation and train students in its use. Two additional staff members in the college's Electronics Shop provide instrument design, repair, and computer support services. Other facilities include a machine shop (with a section devoted for student use) and equipment for fabrication and repair of chemical glassware.