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)
LabStar Pro SP 4-glove glovebox (MBraun)
  • 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)
Axioscope Miscroscopy Station (Zeiss) (500x max)
VH1102 Vickers Hardness Microindenter (Buehler)
  • 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)