Instrumentation

All of the instrumentation listed below is used regularly by undergraduate students in laboratory courses and special projects.

1.    GC-MS – Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer

    • Purchased by SHC in 2013
    • Agilent 7820A Gas Chromatograph
    • Agilent 5977E Mass Selective Detector – Electron impact ionization, quadrupole mass analyzer

2.    AAS – Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

    • Purchased by SHC in 2008
    • Varian AA240 – universal Mark 7 flame atomization system


3.    FT-NMR – Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer

    • Purchased by SHC in 2005
    • Anasazi Eft-60 – 60MHz magnet

4.    Bomb Calorimeter

    • Purchased by SHC in 2009
    • Parr 1341 Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter


5.    HPLC – High Performance Liquid Chromatograph – HPLC system with UV/Vis detection.  

    • Shimadzu LC-10AS- single plunger reciprocating pumps
    • Detector – Shimadzu SPD 10AV UV-Vis Spectrophotometric Detection
    • Shimadzu RF-10A XL Fluorescence Detector, SIL 10A Auto Injector, CTO-10A Column Oven
    • Chromsys Clarity 2.2.4 software

6.    UV-Vis – UltraViolet-Visible Spectrophotometer

    • Hewlett-Packard 8453 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer with photodiode array detection (190-1100 nm)

7.    Spectrofluorometer – Gilford Fluoro IV Spectrofluorometer

8.    Biochemistry lab equipment

    • DNA Electrophoresis system
    • Protein Electrophoresis system
    • BIO-RAD GelAir Dryer
    • Incubator
    • BIO-RAD Ultra Rocker

9.    Vernier LabQuest Data Acquisition systems

    • pH, temperature, voltage, conductivity, O2 sensor, gas pressure