Research Labs & Facilities
Coe's Chemistry Department has one of the most extensive collections of up-to-date instrumentation you will find.
All of this instrumentation is for student use, and nearly all of it is used in courses.
This equipment is housed in the state-of-the-art facility, Peterson Hall of Science. The building underwent a $13 million renovation in 2013.
Chromatography
- Dionex ICS 1000 ion chromatograph with AS40 autosampler
- BioRad Duo Flow low-pressure chromatography system
- Dionex Summit HPLC with PDA100 UV/visible detector and autosampler
- Agilent 5975C inert MSD with 6850 GC
Spectroscopy
- Lachat QuikChem 8500 Series 2 Flow Injection
- Perkin Elmer Optima 7000DV ICP
- Buck Scientific cold vapor mercury analyzer
- Jasco FP-6500 Spectrofluorometer
- Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 200 flame atomic absorption spectrometer
- Thermo Nicolet IR300 and iS5 (with iD7 ATR) FTIRs
- Perkin Elmer Lambda 35 UV/visible spectrophotometers
- Thermo Scientific NanoDrop
- Continuum Surelite pulsed Nd:YAG laser
- Spectra Physics 2nd, 3rd, 4th harmonic generation package
- Jaguar dye laser (tunable wavelengths from 850-350nm)
- Rigol Digital Storage Oscilloscope DS6202 (5 GSample/600MHz) for pulsed signal detection and analysis
- SRS 830 Lock-In Amplifier for continuous signal detection
- SRS 200/235/245/250 Gate Scanner, Amplifier, Interface and Gated Integrator for transient signal integration
- JEOL 300 MHz FTNMR
Electrochemistry
- BAS 100B Electrochemical workstation with RDE-2 rotating disc electrode
- TitraLab AT1000 Series Potentiometric Titrator
Miscellaneous
- IDEXX Colilert 18/Quanti-tray system
- Environmental Express Hot Block
- Braun UniLab ProSP Inert Atmosphere Glove Box
- Field equipment for water quality research — YSI 556 and YSI ProPlus Multi-Parameter Systems, Hach 2100Q and 2100P turbidimeters, Sontek FlowTracker2, Teledyne RDI Stream Pro
- CentOS computational cluster running packages such as NWChem, GAMESS, WebMO, abinit, SageMath and other scientific software
- We also utilize instrumentation shared with the Physics Department, including powder X-ray diffractometer, scanning electron microscope, atomic force microscope and Raman/scanning probe microscope