Equipment and Support Services available in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Full-time NMR research assistant

Varian high resolution NMR spectrometers (2 ´ 300, 500 MHz)

Varian CMX MSL 200 and 400 MHz solid state NMR spectrometers

Varian X-band EPR spectrometer (4 <T / K < 300)

Crystallography

Crystallographic service (full-time staff crystallographer)

Two Nonius Kappa CCD diffractometers with low temperature facilities

Nonius four-circle diffractometer with low temperature facility

Three Siemens D5000 high-resolution X-ray powder diffractometers, one with high temperature (up to 1000 °C) facility.

Jeol 2000 FX analytical transmission electron microscope

Mass Spectrometry

Full-time technician

MALDI, Electrospray and CI/FI spectrometers

Chemical Analysis by Chromatography and Other Means

Two full-time analytical technicians; one full-time chromatography technician

Inductively Coupled Plasma atomic emission spectrometer

CHN analyser

Thermogravimetric balance with gas flow facility and differential scanning calorimeter.

Two analytical HPLC systems

Catalysis evaluation facilities including several gas chromatographs

Electrochemical instrumentation for cyclic voltammetry and other techniques.

Magnetic and Electrical Properties

DC SQUID magnetometer ( 2 < T / K < 350, 0 < B / T < 5)

Electrical conductivity apparatus ( 4 < T / K < 300)

Molecular Spectroscopies

Five FT-IR spectrometers

Two Raman spectrometers, one with CCD detector and excitation by Ar⁺ or Kr⁺ lasers

Several UV-visible spectrometers

PES Laboratories 0078 photoelectron spectrometer

Chemical Synthesis

High vacuum lines for handling reactive, volatile compounds

Metal vapour synthesis equipment

High temperature resistance furnaces

Induction, arc and Bridgman furnaces for high temperature crystal growth.

Preparative HPLC system

Facilities for protein engineering and purification.

Carbon nanotube synthesis facility

Solvent purification systems

High pressure autoclaves

Surface studies

ESCALAB UHV electron spectrometer with UPS, XPS, LEED and EELS facilities

Ambient and fluid phase AFM/STM with variable temperature and electrochemical facilities

Omicron UHV variable temperature STM/AFM with LEED and XPS facilities

Omicron UHV STM with Auger/EELS facilities

Surface area and chemisorption equipment