Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Student working with analytical equipment

Instrumentation and Facilities

Spectrometers / spectrophotometers

NMR


EPR

  • Bruker ESP-380 (with ENDOR capabilities) (Eloranta)
  • Bruker 200D (x Band, jointly with Physics) (shared, 1995)


Circular dichroism

  • AVIV 202 (Minehan, 2016)


Surface Plasmon Resonance

  • Nicoya Lifesciences OpenSPR (Crowhurst and Vey, 2016)


LC-MS


GC-MS

  • Agilent 5973 (shared, 2005)
  • Agilent 5977E (shared, 2015)


ICP-MS

  • PerkinElmer NexION 300Q (shared, 2010)


UV/Visible

  • Perkin Elmer Lambda XLS+ (shared, 2010)
  • Thermo Electron Spectronic BioMate 3 (Crowhurst, 2007)
  • Spectramax 190 microplate reader (Medh, 2004)
  • Shimadzu Biospec UV-1800 (8) (shared, 2016)
  • Hewlett Packard 8453 with 89090A diode-array detector (1997)
  • Perkin Elmer Lambda (14) (1995)
  • Cary 3 (1995)
  • Hewlett Packard 8452A with diode array detector and temp. controller (shared, 2014)
  • Agilent Cary 60 (Teprovich, 2017)


Stopped-Flow UV/Visible

  • HiTech Scientific CU-61 (2000)


Fluorescence

  • Perkin Elmer LS55 w/microplate reader (shared, 2010)
  • Edinburgh FS5 Spectrofluorometer with integrating sphere, circularly polarized luminescence, and fluorescent lifetime capabilities (Teprovich, 2018)
  • Perkin Elmer LS50B (shared, 1995)
  • SPEX Fluorolog 1680 (0.20 m double spectrometer) (1995)


FT-IR

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrum 100 (2) (shared, 2010)
  • Perkin Elmer Spectrum BX
  • Perkin Elmer Spectrum Two (shared, 2012)
  • Veeco/Bruker Vertex 70 FTIR with external optics (Garrett, 2015)


FT-IR/Raman

  • Nicolet 750 Magna (1996)


Atomic Absorption

  • Perkin Elmer Analyst 600 with graphite furnace (shared, 2010)
  • Perkin Elmer Analyst 200 (shared, 2010)


Gamma-Ray

  • Canberra InSpector gamma ray counting system (1995)
  • Canberra instrinic germanium detector gamma ray counting system (1995)
  • Canberra NaI(Tl) 3 x 3 well detector (1995)


Dynamic Light Scattering

  • Brookhaven Instruments Nanobrook Omni particle sizer and zeta-potential analyzer (Teprovich, 2018)

Edinburgh FS5 Spectrofluorometer with integrating sphere, circularly polarized luminescence, and fluorescent lifetime capabilities

 

Microscopes

  • Zeiss Axioskop 40 (Fischhaber, 2008)
  • Zeiss Imager M2 with Hamamatsu ORCA Flash 4.0 camera (Fischhaber, 2019)
  • Zeiss Imager M1 with Axio imager camera (shared, 2004)
  • Home-built hybrid upright-inverted microscope based on an Olympus IX71, coupled with a spectrograph (Horiba HR 320) and EMCCD (Andor Newton) for steady state photoluminescence studies (Boulesbaa 2017)
  • Olympus CKX53 (Tamae, 2016)
  • Bruker Multimode V atomic force microscope (Garrett, 2010)

Chromatographs

GC

- Perkin Elmer Clarus 400 (2) (shared, 2010)
- Agilent 6850 (shared, 2008)
- Agilent 7820A (5) (shared, 2012)
- Agilent GC 7820A with 7697A headspace sampler (shared, 2014)


HPLC

- Perkin Elmer Flexar LC with diode-array detector (shared, 2010)
- Shimadzu SPD6A-LC6A (3) (2004)
- Hewlett Packard 1100 gradient HPLC system with G1313A autosampler and G1315A diode-array detector (1998)
- Shimadzu SPD10A-LC10AS (1997)
- Waters 510 solvent delivery system with 431 conductivity detector (1995)
- Hewlett Packard 1050 gradient HPLC system (1985) with diode-array detector (1988)


FPLC

- Akta (GE Healthcare) w/ UV detector & fraction collector (Crowhurst, 2007)


Ion

- Dionex ICS-1500 (2003)

 

 

Centrifuges

Conventional floor

- 2 x Beckman Avanti J-E (shared, 2008 & 2012)
- rotors: 2 x JA-20 (shared), JLA-16.25 (shared), JLA-10.5 (Crowhurst)


Conventional benchtop

- Sorval Biofuge Primo R (refrigerated, shared, 2007)
- Thermo MultiRF (refrigerated, Crowhurst, 2007)
- Eppendorf 5417R (refrigerated, Fischhaber 2010)
- Fisher Brand 96-well Plate Centrifuge (Tamae Lab, 2019)
- Thermo Scientific Speed Vac SPD121P w/vapor trap and pump (Tamae Lab, 2016)

Thermal Cyclers

  • Applied Biosystems 2720 (Crowhurst, 2007)
  • Eppendorf Mastercycler EP gradient S (Fischhaber, 2005)
  • Eppendorf Mastercycler X50S (Fischhaber, 2018)
  • Cepheid Smart Cycler II (Medh, 2004)
  • Bio-Rad CFX96 Touch (Tamae Lab, 2019)

Incubators

  • New Brunswick Scientific BioFlo 115 benchtop fermentor (Crowhurst, 2009)
  • New Brunswick Scientific I-24 orbital shaking incubator (Crowhurst, 2007)
  • Amerex Gyromax 737 (shared, 2005)
  • Amerex Gyromax 727 (Fischhaber, 2007)
  • Amerex Gyromax 737R (refrigerated, Fischhaber, 2014)
  • Panasonic MC-170AICUV CO2 Incubator (Tamae Lab, 2016)

Calorimeters

  • Microcal HT microcalorimeter with autsampler AutoITC (Minehan, 2015)

Electrochemical Systems

  • Bio-Logic VMP3 multi-channel (8) electrochemical workstation with EIS capability (Teprovich, 2018)
  • Princeton Applied Research 263A potentiostat (2) (2003)
  • Princeton Applied Research 636 Ring-Disk (1999)
  • Princeton Applied Research 273A potentiostat (1995)

Laser Flash Photolysis

  • Phase-R DL1100 flash-lamp pumped dye laser (1992)
  • Oriel QTH and Xe arc lamp sources
  • Nicolet 400 digital (10 ns/pt) oscilloscope

Ultrasonic Transducer

L3 Communications ELAC Nautik (2) (1999)

Laser sources

  • Continuum Surelite II-10 Nd/YAG (Eloranta, 2006)
  • Continuum Minilite II Nd/YAG (Eloranta, 2006)
  • Coherent Astrella Ti:sapphire femtosecond amplifier (35 fs pulse width) (Boulesbaa, 2017)
  • Coherent TOPAS Prime optical parametric amplifier (1100 to 1600 nm) (Boulesbaa 2017)
  • Coherent OperaSolo optical parametric amplifier (1600 to 5000 nm) (Boulesbaa 2017)

X-ray Diffractometers

  • Oxford Diffraction Xcalibur3, purchased with funds from the National Science Foundation (shared, 2003)
  • Siemens D500 powder X-ray diffractometer (Teprovich, 2020)

Biochemistry instrumentation (misc)

  • Gel Documentation: Bio-Rad ChemiDoc XRS (shared, 2018)
  • Autoclave (benchtop): Tuttnauer Heidolph Brinkmann EAP 3870 (shared, 2010)
  • Ultra-low temperature (-80C) freezers: VWR (2) (shared, 2015), and New Brunswick U535 Innova (Fischhaber, 2015)

Chemistry equipment (misc)

  • Total Organic Carbon Analyzer: Shimadzu 5000A (1998)
  • Magnetic Susceptibility Balance: Johnson Matthey (2)
  • Liquid Scintillation Counter: Beckman 6500 (1999)
  • Thermal Analysis: Shimadzu thermogravimetric TGA 50 (shared, 2003)
  • Vigor SciLab Single Station Glovebox with -35C freezer x 2 (Teprovich, 2018)