Wet Chemistry Laboratory with suite of capabilities including: Chemical fume hoods, bench space, eyewash/safety shower Precision analytical balances Rotary evaporator, Soxhlet extractor, and RapidVap heated vacuum evaporator Autotitrator Melting point/boiling point determinator pH/conductivity probes Refrigerated centrifuge Drying oven, muffle furnace, and vacuum oven Microwave and hot block digestors Heated water baths and sonicators Gas pycnometer and rotational viscometer
Chemical fume hoods, bench space, eyewash/safety shower
Rotary evaporator, Soxhlet extractor, and RapidVap heated vacuum evaporator
Sample Preparation Plasma Etcher Gold coater with carbon accessory Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) system Sample sectioning equipment
Microscopy: Optical stereomicroscopes with coaxial illumination Transmitted polarized light microscope Fluorescence microscope (Blue-Green-UV) Scanning electron microscope with energy and wavelength dispersive spectrometers (SEM-EDS/WDS) Single particle handling and analysis techniques
Optical stereomicroscopes with coaxial illumination
Scanning electron microscope with energy and wavelength dispersive spectrometers (SEM-EDS/WDS)
Spectroscopy/Spectrometry: Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) equipped with microscope, attenuated total reflectance (ATR), horizontal ATR (HATR – flat and trough), and diffuse reflectance (DRIFTS) accessories Raman spectrometer X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Micro x-ray fluorescence (µ-XRF) Portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) Glow Discharge Spectrometer Carbon/sulfur analyzer Direct Analysis Real Time (DART) analyzer with time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) equipped with microscope, attenuated total reflectance (ATR), horizontal ATR (HATR – flat and trough), and diffuse reflectance (DRIFTS) accessories
Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES)
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
Direct Analysis Real Time (DART) analyzer with time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer
Chromatography: Ion chromatograph (IC) with suppressed conductivity detection for anions and cations High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) with diode array detector, refractive index detector, fluorescence detector, and post-column derivatization system Gas Chromatography: Multiple gas chromatography (GC) systems equipped with: Liquid, headspace/gas, and solid phase microextraction (SPME) autosamplers Single and triple quadrupole mass spectrometers (MS) Flame ionization detector (FID), electron capture detector (ECD), thermal conductivity detector (TCD), and photoionization detector (PID) Cryogenic preconcentrator for trace level gas detection
Ion chromatograph (IC) with suppressed conductivity detection for anions and cations
High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) with diode array detector, refractive index detector, fluorescence detector, and post-column derivatization system
Gas Chromatography: Multiple gas chromatography (GC) systems equipped with: Liquid, headspace/gas, and solid phase microextraction (SPME) autosamplers Single and triple quadrupole mass spectrometers (MS) Flame ionization detector (FID), electron capture detector (ECD), thermal conductivity detector (TCD), and photoionization detector (PID)
Liquid, headspace/gas, and solid phase microextraction (SPME) autosamplers
Single and triple quadrupole mass spectrometers (MS)
Flame ionization detector (FID), electron capture detector (ECD), thermal conductivity detector (TCD), and photoionization detector (PID)
Cryogenic preconcentrator for trace level gas detection
