Facilities and Instruments

Now housed in the new Science Building, one of California’s most visionary higher-ed facilities, with state-of-the-art labs and instrumentation.

Instrumentation

Chromatography

• ThermoFisher Trace 1300 GC-FID/MS
• HP 6890 GC-FID/MS
• HP 6890 GC/MS
• 3 SRI 310 GC
• Pharmacia Biotech FPLC
• 4 Bio-Rad BioLogic low pressure FPLC 
• Agilent 1100 HPLC with UV-Vis diode-array detector and Polymer Laboratories PL-ELS 2100 Evaporative Light Scattering detector
• Waters HPLC including UV-Vis and Conductivity Detectors and Gradient Controller

Electrochemistry

• EG&G Instruments Model 362 Potentiostat

Gel Electrophoresis

• Biorad PTC 1148 MJ Minicycler for PCR
• 3 Biorad Protean 3 Minigel Electrophoresis
• Invitrogen Zoom IPGRunner (isoelectric focusing)
• Stratagene Joule Box DNA gel electrophoresis
• Invitrogen E-Gel ibase
• Biorad Gel Doc EZ gel documentation system
• Invitrogen Safe Imager

Inert Environment

• Vacuum Atmospherics Co. Glove Box
• Schlenk Line

Optical Spectroscopy

• 2 Agilent 8453 Diode-array UV-Vis Spectrophotometers
• Hitachi F-4500 Fluorimeter
• 2 ThermoElectron Nicolet FT-IR spectrometers
• Bruker X-Ray Fluoresence Spectrophotometer
• ThermoElectron Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer

Mass Spectrometry

• Advion Expression-L CMS
• See GC/MS above

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• Bruker 400 MHz NMR (installed June 2015)
• Varian Mercury VX-300 NMR

Specialized Solvent systems

• Dionex Accelerated Solvent Extractor
• MBraun Solvent Purifier

Thermal Analysis

• TA Instruments TGA-2050 Thermogravimetric Analyzer
• TA Instruments DSC-2010 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Parr Bomb calorimeter

Miscellaneous

• CEM Discover SP microwave
• Misonix 20020 Programmable Sonicator
• Bench Top Autoclave
• French Pressure Cell
• Klett Colorimeter
• New Brunswick bench top shaker
• New Brunswick bench top shaking water bath
• Sorvall RC2-B refrigerated centrifuge
• 5 L Fermentor