Facilities & 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.

In June 2007, construction began on a $20 million project to modernize and expand the current facilities and purchase new equipment. The building is set to open in Fall 2009. Click here to see features and photos of the new science building.

Instrumentation
The department is well-equipped with the tools required to carry out cutting-edge research. Instrumentation is introduced early on and used in all courses.

• 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