Facilities and Equipment
The Department of Chemistry and Physics is housed on the third and fourth floors of Grote Hall. Grote Hall underwent an eight million dollar renovation from 2008 to 2010. This renovation resulted in new classrooms, labs, and research areas. There are two student study rooms: Grote 326 (a quiet room) and Grote 324 (home to the chemistry club and more study tables).
Library resources include thousands of hard copy chemistry and physics books, on-line access to the over 50 journals, access to all electronic books published by the leading agencies, various scientific searching programs, access to the world literature through SciFinder Scholar searching and Interlibrary Loan (ILL). The department also offers a new PC computer lab in Grote 316. This lab operates from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays. Each computer has Internet access and Microsoft Office, as well as molecular modeling (Scigress) and other specialized chemistry software. The computers are networked to a laser printer that is part of a pay to print GoPrint station.
Located within the department is scientific instrumentation with a value of about one million dollars. This includes a superconducting 400 MHz Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR), a Single Chrystal X-ray Diffractometer, a Liquid-Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (LCMS), a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer, (GCMS) as well as other modern equipment appropriate for an outstanding undergraduate program in Chemistry. A list of some instruments is below.
DEPARTMENT INSTRUMENTS |
YEAR ACQUIRED |
LOCATION |
Thermo Integrion Ion Chromatography system |
2020 |
414 |
Nanosurf Naio Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
2020 |
104 |
Nanosurf Core Atomic Force Microscope |
2020 |
104 |
Epsilon EClipse™ Electrochemical Analyzer and C3 Cell Stand |
2020 |
406 |
Opentrons OT-2 pipetting robot |
2020 |
406 |
Shimadzu TMSPC-8 Tm analysis system |
2020 |
308 |
Teledyne CombiFlash Rf Flash Chromatography System |
2020 |
406 |
Thermo Trace 1300 GC with TCD |
2019 |
405 |
ThermoElectron Trace 1310 GC/ITQ1100 Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer |
2014 |
414 |
Magnetic Susceptibility Balance, Johnson Matthey |
2014 |
407 |
Pine Research Electrochemical Potentiostat |
2014 |
414 |
Agilent 1220 HPLC with Diode Array Detection |
2014 |
414 |
Agilent Cary 60 UV-Vis Spectrometer |
2014 |
414 |
MBraun MB200 2-Port Glove Box with Gas Purification System |
2012 |
406 |
Shimadzu UV/Vis Spectrophotometer (2) |
2011/2002 |
308 |
Agilent Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrometer |
2011 |
414 |
Horiba Jobin-Yvon Ultima ICP with AS 421 Autosampler (upgrade) |
2010/2004 |
404 |
Bruker FTIR (2) |
2010 |
407 |
Bruker 430 Gas Chromatograph (2) |
2010 |
407 |
Olympus Fluoroview 1000 Imaging Microscope |
2010 |
404 |
Bruker Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer |
2010 |
404 |
Horiba Jobin-Yvon Fluorescence Spectrometer |
2009 |
308 |
Parr Model 6772 Adiabatic Calorimeter |
2008 |
315 |
Waters Acquity UPLC with Quattro Micro Mass Spectrometer |
2005 |
404 |
Nicolet 380 Infrared Spectrometer |
2005 |
414 |
JEOL 400 MHz FT-NMR |
2005 |
412 |
Jasco P-1010 Digital Polarimeter |
2003 |
315 |
Varian 220FS Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer |
2003 |
414 |
Fisher Marathon 21000R High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge |
2003 |
307 |