Santa Clara University

Undergraduate Research - Instrumentation

Department of Chemistry

Instrumentation

Major Equipment in SCU's Department of Chemistry For Undergraduate Instruction and Research

Santa Clara University chemistry students work with excellent experimental facilities including a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer and a single, crystal x-ray diffractometer.


Materials Testing Instruments
  • Brookhaven 90 Plus Particle Size Analyzer (dynamic light scattering) (2007)
  • Mettler-Toledo DSC 823e (differential scanning calorimenter) (2007)
  • Molecular Imaging PicoSPM Atomic Force Microscope (2002)
  • Shimadzu TGA-50 Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer (1989)
  • Reichert Mark II Plus Abbe refractometer (2006)


Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

X-Ray Diffraction

Electrochemical Equipment

  • Bio Analytical Systems CV-50 Electrochemical Analyzer (1997)
  • Capillary Electrophoresis with Argon Ion Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection System (2005)

Separations Equipment

  • Hewlett-Packard 5890A Capillary Gas Chromatograph (1985)
  • Gow-Mac Series 350 Gas Chromatographs (5) (1995, 1996, 2005)
  • Waters HPLC with electrochemical detector (2004)
  • Varian Prostar HPLC with diode array detector (2)(2001)

Mass Spectrometry

  • Sciex API 1 Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometer (2000)
  • Shimadzu QP5000A Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (2006)

Optical Spectroscopy

Infrared Spectroscopy

Other Equipment

  • Misoniz XL Ultrasonic Cell Disruptor (tip sonicator) (2007)
  • IEC Micromax RF Refrigerated Microcentrifuge (2006)
  • Beckman Coulter Allegra X-22R Centrifuge (2005)
  • DuPont Sorvall RC-5C Centrifuge (2001)    
  • Beckman LS6000IC Liquid Scintillation Counter (1989)
  • Du Pont Sorvall RC-5B Centrifuge (1989)

 

 


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