Laboratory Instrumentation and Services

Laboratories in the A.R. Smith Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences are equipped with modern instrumentation which is used regularly by faculty and students. We can provide the following services to research and industry partners:

Separations Lab (GWH 432)

  • Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC-MS
  • Dionex ICS 1000 ion chromatography system
  • Agilent 7890 GC - Leco Pegasus 4D TOFMS
  • Agilent 7890 GC-FID with 5975C-MSD and 7697A Headspace Sampler
  • Agilent 6890GC - 5975B MSD
  • Agilent 8860GC-FID
  • Perkin Elmer Series II CHN analyzer
  • Shimadzu LC 20 Ai Ion Chromatograph

Spectroscopy Lab (GWH 440)

  • Thermo Nicolet 6700 FT-IR with ATR attachment and Continuum microscope
  • Shimadzu 2600 UV/Vis spectrophotometer
  • Shimadzu 2401PC UV/Vis spectrophotometer
  • Horiba Jobin FluoroMax 4 spectrofluorometer
  • P/ACE MDQ Capillary electrophoresis system
  • Invitrogen EVOS FL Auto 2 Fluorescence microscope
  • PQS 64 bit 48 core parallel processor computing system

NMR Room (GWH 411B)

  • Bruker 400MHz Avance III HD NMR Spectrometer

Elemental Analysis Lab (GWH 452)

  • Varian 710ES ICP-OES
  • Perkin Elmer 2100 Flame Atomic Absorption

Biosuite (GWH 469)

  • GE AKTA Start FPLC
  • Innova 42R New Brunswick Shaking Incubators
  • Beckman L8-70M Ultracentrifuge
  • Eppendorf 5804R benchtop centrifuge
  • Applied Biosystems StepOnePlus RealTime-PCR
  • Applied Biosystems Veriti Gradient PCR thermocycler
  • ThermoScientific Nanodrop 2000c spectrophotometer
  • Azure biosystems 400 Gel imaging system
  • Agilent 8454 UV-vis spectrophotometer with photodiode array detector
  • BioTek Synergy H1 microplate reader

Biochemistry/Quant Lab (GWH 337)

  • Thermo HPLC-UV-vis detector
  • BioTek Epoch 2 Microplate readers (3)
  • GE Akta Start FPLC (3)

Environmental/Forensic Lab (GWH 442)

  • Thermo GC-MS-MS with Gerstel SPE system

Organic labs (GWH 416)

  • Agilent 8860 GC-FID with 7697A Headspace sampler
  • Agilent 6850 Series II GC-FID with G1888 Headspace sampler
  • Thermo Nicolet iS5 FT-IR with ATR accessory
  • Shimadzu IR Affinity-1 FT-IR