Facilities and Equipment
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is housed in the Schear-McFadden Science Building along with the Physics, Life and Earth Sciences, Equine Science and Nursing departments.
The College is about to begin a $20 million project to renovate and expand the science buildings and upgrade equipment. For more details, click here.
Instrumentation
The department is well-equipped with the tools required to carry out cutting-edge research.
- 200 MHz Bruker NMR Spectrometer
- Jobin-Yvon LabRam HR 800 Raman Microscope
- Nanosurf EasyScan Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (6)
- Nanosurf Atomic Force Microscope
- Thermo Jarrell-Ash TraceScan ICP Spectrometer
- Thermo Jarrell-Ash AAScan-1 AA Spectrophotometer
- Perkin-Elmer LS-50B Fluorimeter
- Nicolet 380 FT-IR Spectrometer
- Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
- Ocean Optics USB2000 UV and Visible Spectrophotometers (6)
- MBraun LabMaster 130 Inert-Atmosphere Glovebox
- Cypress CS-1200 Electrochemical Analyzer
- Hewlett Packard 5890/5972 GC-MS
- Varian Star 3400 Capillary Gas Chromatograph
- Spectra Physics HPLC
- Nima Technologies Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
Instrumentation is introduced early on and used in all courses.
