Facilities and Equipment
Extensive research facilities and instrumentation are available within CEMS.
Access to most facilities can be arranged for outside researchers interested in collaboration with
CEMS personnel. The following facilities and analytical instruments are available for CEMS research activities.
- G.C. Mass Spectroscometer
- BET surface analyzer
- Two NMR Spectrometers (360 and 200 MHz)
- Glove Boxes
- Temperature-controlled, illuminated incubators
- Refrigerated Centrifuge
- Coulter Multisizer II particle counter
- DOC photooxidation spectrophotometers and fluorometers
- NaI (T1) gamma counters
- Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 800 graphite furnance AAS
- High resolution, magnetic sector ICP-MS (Element 2) with laser ablation capability
- Software and hardware for computational chemistry
- Perkin Elmer Lambda 40 UV/visible spectrophotometer
- Photochemical reaction cells with UV or Vis light
- Brookhaven Instruments dynamic light scattering equipment
- Zetapotential instrumentation
- FTIR Spectroscopy, Nicolet Nexus 670. Instrument equipped with DGTS and MTCA detectors as well as DRIFT, ATR, flow-through
ATR, and Reflectance accessories.
- Raman spectroscopy. Inphotonic Raman spectrometer equipped with fiber optic probe.
- UV-Vis spectrometers, Ocean optics. CCD-based spectrometers capable of fluorescence and transmission measurements.
- Dionex DX-500 equipped with electrochemical dectector, conductivity detector, as well as UV-Vis detector.
- GC (SRI instruments) equipped with FID, FPD, TCD, HID detectors.
Optimized for detection of sulfur species.
- Aqueous geochemical modeling programs
- Hydrothermal synthesis lab
- Low-temperature crystal growth facilities
- Equipment for sorption studies
- Total CO2 analysis instrumentation
- Thermo ARL Scintag PAD-X automated powder diffractometer
- Bruker-AXS platform with GADDS (General Area Detector Diffraction System)
- Bruker-AXS P4 single crystal diffractometer with 1K CCD
- Bruker 1K CCD located at NSLS
- Thermo Finnigan LC/MS
- Varian Liberty 150 ICP-AES
- High performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC) (Shimadzu) with UV-Vis (190-600 nm), RI
(refractive index) and conductivity detection system with a Shimadzu SIL-10A auto-injector
- Gas chromatographs including a Varian 3400 fitted with two detectors (flame ionization (FID) and thermal
conductivity (TCD)), Varian 330 with a methanizer-FID and Shimadzu GC-8A with a 3 Ni
electron capture detector (ECD)
- Beckman total organic carbon analyzer with separate inorganic and organic carbon channels
- Hewlett-Packard Model 8453 scanning UV-Vis detector interfaced to a PC for instrument control
, data acquisition and analysis
- Spectrophotometers (Milton Roy Spectronic 20 and 20D) for routine wet chemical analyses
- Liquid Scintillation Counting System (Wallace 1414 Winspectral "Guardian"
Environmental Monitoring System)
- Dedicated biological media preparation lab
- Anaerobic microbiology lab with a Coy 2-person nitrogen glove box
- Sterile culture transfer room with a Baker Sterilgard Class II Type A/B3 biological
safety cabinet with HEPA filters
- Laboratory for preparation and testing of radioactive materials
- Varian ICP Liberty 100
- Shimadzu DSC-50
- Shimadzu TGA-50
- Jordan Valley XRF analyzer Ex-6600
- DMA-80 Direct Hg Analyzer
- Two HPGe gamma spectrometers
- Transmission Electron Microscope JEOL JEM-100cxii
- Scanning Electron Microscope JEOL JSM-35CF with EDX
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