Facilities & Instrumentation

The Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics Department is housed in the Science and Technology Center on the Lawrenceville Campus. This building was recently rennovated providing better spaces for both teaching and research laboratories. The three chemical teaching laboratories are the ground floor. One is for general chemistry laboratory sections, one for organic chemistry laboratory sections. The last is used for the upper level laboratory courses. The physics laboratory and the attached physics instrumentation room are located on the second floor. Each of the teaching laboratories is designed to hold a maximum of 18 students, ensuring that laboratory sections are small. Each of the faculty members also has a separate research laboratory. There are also several rooms which house many of the departmental instruments listed below. The building also has two Macintosh computer labs for use by all science students. Additionally the general chemistry and physics laboratories are equiped with computers and instrumental interfaces so that experimental data are collected digitally before students preform their anaylses.

The following equipment is available in our department:

• Bruker 300 MHz FT-NMR spectrometer
• Rigaku X-Ray Powder Diffractometer
• Bruker Vector 22 FTIR w/ ATR capability
• Perkin Elmer 1600 FTIR
• Coherent argon-ion laser (visible blue, green wavelengths)
• Coherent CW dye laser (yellow-red wavelengths)
• PRA pulsed nitrogen laser (UV wavelength)
• PRA pulsed dye laser (UV/Vis wavelengths)
• SPEX spectorgraph, 0.5 m focal length
• EG&G OMA III intensified diode array detector system
• Optical tables and components for laser spectroscopy
• Tektronics high-speed sampling oscilloscope
• Hewlett Packard-5890 Gas Chromatograph
• Rainin High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
• Waters HPLC
• Baird 2070 ICP Emission Spectrometer
• Lindberg Programmable Ovens (4)
• Ocean Optics Spectrofluorimeter
• Spectronic 20 UV/VIS Spectrometers (8)
• Labworks Computer Interface systems (10)
• Turbopump vacuum system for thin film deposition and in situ optical studies (custom built).
• Vacuum Pumps
• Drying Ovens
• Vacuum Drying Ovens
• Silicon Graphics Computer Workstations
• Lake Shore 1.2 Tesla Electromagnet
• Parr Bomb Calorimeter
• Eppendorf Centrifuge
• Neslab Constant Temperature Water Baths (4)
• Digital Analytical Balances
• pH Meters (8)