With two fume hoods, several balances, a centrifuge, ultrasonicator, drying oven, fraction collector, rotary evaporator, and stills for solvent purification, the laboratory contains all necessary equipment for the synthesis of colloids and cluster based materials. Of two M.Braun glove boxes, one provides the environment for synthetic studies involving oxygen-sensitive materials, whereas the other box is available for electrochemical investigations using a PC controlled PAR 263 potentiostat.

For compound/materials characterization we make extensive use of the ISI DS-130 and FEI XL30-SFEG scanning electron microscopes, a Hitachi H-600 transmission electron microscope, and a Scintag XDS 2000 Powder X-ray diffractometer, which are located in the Materials Science/Central Facilities. (Download mpeg video(9.2MB))  An Olympus BX51 optical microscope is also available.

IR measurements are made using a Mattson Galaxy Series FTIR 3000.  UV-vis spectra are collected on an Ocean Optics HR2000 CG-UV-NIR spectrophotometer. NMR experiments are preformed on a Varian Inova 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer, are carried out in the analytical and NMR-facilities in the chemistry building.

A single X-ray diffractometer equipped with a CCD is accessible through the departmental X-ray laboratory.

Special thanks to William Casey and Dean Peter Rock for giving us access to their Nanoscope IIIa Digital Instruments Multimode Atomic Force Microscope.