Department Instrumentation
The modern equipment in the Chemistry department's teaching and research laboratories includes a number of instruments available to undergraduates for both study and research. The departments instrumentation includes electrochemical equipment, spectrophotometers of several types, a vacuum dry box, GC's, LC's, high intensity mercury lamp, Langmuir-Blodgett trough, vacuum ovens and furnaces. The chemistry department also maintains collaborations with Linfield's Physics, LRI and Biology departments. In addition, the department maintains its own LAN, and several clusters of PCs for student use.
Spectroscopic Instrumentation:
Home-built Raman microscope (532 and 632 nm lasers, CVI Digikrom 0.25 m monochromator, Apogee thermoelectrically cooled CCD)
DeltaNu Solution 532 Raman spectrometer (with NuScope and macro Raman capabilities)
Bruker Alpha Series FT-IR with ATR accessory
Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2000 FT-IR
Hitachi F-4500 scanning Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
Hitachi U-3000 UV-Vis scanning Spectrophotometer
Shimadzu AA-6300 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Cu, Pb, Na/K, Mg/Ca/Al/Fe lamps)
Anasazi FT-NMR (Varian magnet with 1H and 13C probes)
Additional diode-array spectrometers (14).
Chromatographic Instrumentation:
Shimadzu LC2010C HT Liquid Chromatograph (with autosampler and UV detector)
Shimadzu Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometer QP2010 Series (with autosampler). This is the newest addition to the department.
Hewlett Packard Series II 5890 Gas Chromatograph (with FID and TCD detectors)
Electrochemical Instrumentation:
EG&G model 264A Polarographic Analyzer / Stripping Voltameter
EG&G model 303A SMDE and EGG model 6310 Electrochemical Impedance Analyzer
Other:
Vacuum Atmosphere Co. HE-63-P dry box
Nima 611M Langmuir-Blodgett Trough
Zeiss Winkel 164966 Polarimeter
