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Research Facilities and Instrumentation
The Department is located in Science Hall (SH), the Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB) and the new Chemistry and Physics Building (CPB). We are well equipped to perform top-level research in all traditional and interdisciplinary chemistry-based fields.
The major equipment available includes:
- Two multinuclear, superconducting (300 and 500 MHz) FT-NMR spectrometers with both solids and liquids capability
- Electron spin resonance spectrometer
- API (ESI/APCI) mass spectrometer detectors (single quad, QqQ, QIT, LIT, IT-TOF)
- Two GC-MS/MS instruments
- Two MALDI-TOF-MS instruments
- Several FT-IR spectrometers
- Analytical and preparative HPLC instruments
- Capillary electrophoresis (CE) instruments
- UV/vis, fluorescence, chiral, and MS detectors for CE and HPLC
- Numerous gas chromatographs
- GC/FT-IR spectrometer
- GPC instrument with multiangle laser light scattering detector
- Three fast protein LCs
- Gel electrophoresis instrument
- Gel documentation system
- HPLC-ICP-MS
- Patch-clamp apparatus
- C,H,N elemental analyzer
- Several potentiostat / galvanostats
- Optical microscopes
- Ultracentrifuge
- Two high speed centrifuges
- Several standard centrifuges
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Thermogravimetric analyzer
- Several vacuum atmospheres dry boxes
- Liquid helium cryostat for conductivity
- AC impedance analyzer
- Several digital oscilloscopes
- Surface tensiometer
- Multiple HV pulse generators
- Two liquid scintillation counters
- Two vapor pressure osmometers
- Single crystal X-ray diffractometer
- Raman spectrometer
- Atomic force microscope
- Two ESCA systems
- Numerous UV/vis spectrophotometers (some with diode-array detection)
- UV/vis/NIR spectrophotometer
- Two spectrofluorimeters
- Circular dichroism spectrometer
- Mössbauer spectrometer
- Dynamic light scattering instrument
- Rapid scan time-resolved spectrometer
- Transient electric bifringence apparatus
- Laser-induced Kerr effect apparatus
- Fluorescence microscope
- Phosphor imager
- DNA fluorimeter
- Flame and graphite furnace atomic absorption instrument
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer
- Microwave synthesizer instrument
- High pressure apparatus
- Electrochemical analyzer
- Karl Fischer titrator
- Viscometers
- Residual gas analyzer
- Several fast reaction instruments (T-jump, laser-E-jump, P-jump, flash photolysis and stopped-flow apparatus)
- Thin film profilometer
- Ellipsometer
- Several RF plasma reactors
- Quartz crystal microbalance
- DNA sequencing apparatus
- Centrifugal vacuum concentrator
- Two UV transilluminators
- Several incubator/shakers
In addition to select instruments from the above list, the Biochemistry facility in CPB also has:
- Tissue culture facility with temperature controlled CO2 incubator and biosafety cabinet
- Cell and tissue storage liquid nitrogen tank; · Multiple water purification systems
- PCR machine
- Scintillation counter
- Cold rooms and warm rooms
- -80 °C freezer
For computational chemists, there is a 12-seat PC-based molecular modeling lab (3 GHz PCs running Windows, Gaussian03, GausView, and Hyperchem). Additionally, there are several Linux workstations and two high resolution graphics workstations.
The UT Arlington Computation Center consists of several high performance nodes with a total of 146 processors, between 1 — 16 GB of memory each, and over 8.4 Terabytes of total disk space. This cluster is dedicated to computational research. There are also hundreds of PCs and Macintoshes, many available 24 hr/day, for student and faculty use.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry contains several dozen Windows and Macintosh computers connected to the University's servers, and to the internet. Within the Department, there is a well-equipped machine shop, two electronics shops, a fully-equipped glass shop, and a well-equipped stockroom; all maintained and run by our dedicated staff members.
The University Library has over 1.1 million volumes, 87,500 of which are in the Science and Engineering Library; both of which are in close proximity to the Department.