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Equipment & Facilities
Extensive state-of-the-art research equipment is accessible to all students engaged in research projects with faculty and staff. The campus shares a high performance computing cluster for computational work and, through the University Libraries, students have access to numerous online databases and most full-text journals in chemistry.
- Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
- Atomic Force Microscope
- Clean Room Facility
- Elemental Analyzer (CHNS analysis)
- Electrochemical Instruments
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer
- Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers
- Glove Boxes
- Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
- Lasers - Nitrogen/dye YAG lasers, Nd: YAG/Optical
- Parametric Oscillator (OPO)
- Liquid Chromatographs (LC) and LC-Mass Spectrometers
- NMR instrument (1H and 13C) – 200 MHz and 400 MHz
- Physisorption and Chemisorption Instruments
- Scanning Confocal Raman microscope and spectroscope
- Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX
- Solvent Drye
- Spectrofluorimeters
- Spin Coaters
- Transmission Electron Microscope
- UV-VIS Spectrophotometers and Integrating Sphere UV-Vis spectrophotometer
- UV-Vis-NIR Hyperspectral Microscope
- X-ray diffractometer (both Single Crystal and Powder)