Facilities
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Chemistry major Jess Brownell '06 uses the Veeco scanning probe microscope. |
Coe's chemistry department has one of the most extensive collections of up-to-date instrumentation you will find in a department of this size (or bigger!) All of this instrumentation is for use by students, and nearly all of it is used in courses. Note as well that most of the funding for the instruments is obtained by writing grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, where the ideas for using the instruments are judged competitively by peers. In recent competitions, only about 10-20% of the applications receive funding — so we must have some good ideas!
We also have excellent on-line access to current chemistry journals, including the complete American Chemical Society journal collection, through Stewart Memorial library. On-line access to Chemical Abstracts, via STN Easy is also available.
| Jasco Spectrofluorimeter (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 2005 |
| Dionex Summit HPLC with diode array detector, fluorescence detector, and autosampler (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 2005 |
| Dionex ICS1000 ion chromatograph (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 2005 |
| Veeco Multimode Scanning Probe Microscope (NSF-MRI w/ physics) | 2004 |
| asco NRS 3100 Laser Raman Micro-spectrophotometer (532 nm and 785 nm lasers) (NSF-MRI w/physics) | 2004 |
| ThermoNicolet IR300 Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer with diamond anvil ATR sampling accessory (alumni donation w/ corporate match) | 2003 |
| BioAnalytical Systems 100B/W Potentiostat with rotating disc electrode (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 2002 |
| Dionex DX-80 Ion Chromatograph (Coe) | 2002 |
| SRI Model 8610 gas chromatograph with FID, PID, and DELDC detectors, purge and trap, and thermal desorber (Gift to Coe) | 2002 |
| Perkin Elmer UV/visible spectrophotometers (3 Lambda 35s and 8 Lambda EZ150s) (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 2001 |
| Continuum Jaguar YAG-pumped dye laser | 2001 |
| Stanford Research Systems Gated Integrator/Boxcar Averager | 2001 |
| Linux computational cluster | 2001 |
| EOL Eclipse+ 300 MHz FTNMR with variable temperature, multinuclear probe and pulsed field gradients (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 1999 |
| PTI nitrogen pumped dye laser with CVI monochromator/PMT and fast (500 MHz) data collection electronics; Avco pulsed nitrogen laser for fluorescence and photolyis; Opthos MPG-4 microwave generator | 1998 |
| erkin Elmer PE1100 Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer (new in 1990; donated to Coe in 1997 by Perkin Elmer) | 1997 |
| Hewlett Packard GCD GC-MS (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 1995 |
| Beckman J2-HS Centrifuge (50% Coe, 50% NSF-CCLI) | 1995 |
| Gilson gradient analytical HPLC, scanning UV detector (Carver Foundation) | 1994 |
Students in organic laboratory run their own samples on the department's 300 MHz NMR.
