Equipment and Facilities

Lab Equipment:

Synthesis:

3850 Manual Benchtop 12 Ton Press (Carver)
8 x Thermolyne Benchtop Muffle Furnaces (<1200C)
(Thermo Scientific)
Lindberg Blue Mini-Mite Tube Furnace (<1100C)
(Thermo Scientific)
Carbolite Gero Furnace (30-300 C) (Verder Scientific)
  • Arc-melter Furnace < 250 A current (Miller, Ames Lab)

 Analysis and Characterization:

MetPrep 3 Semi-automatic Grinder Polisher
(AlliedHighTech Products, Inc.)
TrimSaw 2x Manual Table Diamond Saw
(AlliedHighTech Products, Inc.)
VH1102 Vicker Hardness Microindenter
(Buehler)
  • LabStar Pro SP 4-glove glovebox (MBraun)
  • VH1102 Vickers Hardness Microindenter (Buehler)
  • Axioscope Miscroscopy Station (Zeiss)
  • Photochemical Reactor 500 mL, 450 W lamp (Ace Glass)
  • Quartz Ampoule Sealing Station

Departmental Research Instrumentation for Solid State Chemistry

  • IR and Raman Instrumentation
    • Thermo Nicolet IR 200 Spectrophotometer
    • Raman Spectrometer (Oreil Optics)
    • Raman Microscope (WiTec 300 Microscope)
  • NMR Facility
    • Varian INOVA 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer
    • Two Bruker AVANCE 500 MHz NMR Spectrometers, VT and solid state capabilities
  • Photophysical Characterization
    • Cary 500 and 5000 UV-Vis-IR Spectrophotometers
    • Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
    • Horiba Fluorolog 211
  • SEM Facility
    • Field emission scanning electron microscope (Hitachi S-4800) (EDAX Detector)
  • X-Ray Laboratory
    • Single Crystal XRD
      • Bruker APEXII X-ray Diffractometer (4K CCD Detector, Kryoflex Low-Temp)
      • Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-i X-ray Diffractometer
    • Powder XRD
      • Rigaku MiniFlex 6G benchtop XRD
      • Bruker D8 Advance-eco X-ray Diffractometer (Earth & Environmental Sciences)