Research Facilities and Support
Personnel
The majority of the research facilities
for the Chemistry Department are located
in the Reiss Science and the White-Gravenor
buildings, with an additional cluster of
laboratories in the Basic Sciences Building.
Departmental instruments include:
- single crystal and
powder X-ray diffractometers
(located in our X-ray
diffraction facility)
- three high-field nuclear
magnetic spectrometers
(one 500 MHz and two
300 MHz instruments)
- two GC/MS instruments
- a circular dichroism
system and spectropolarimeter,
- thermal analysis equipment,
including both thermogravimetric
and differential scanning
calorimetry systems,
- CHN elemental analyzer
- other instruments and
equipment such as UV-vis
and FT-IR spectrometers,
and spectrofluorimeters,
electrochemistry systems,
ultracentrifuges, and
cell growth equipment.
The department also maintains licenses for
computational and modeling software packages
for theoretical investigations.
Individual investigators' labs are equipped
for carrying out investigations using such
techniques as liquid chromatography/mass
spectrometry, capillary electrophoresis,
atomic force microscopy, single-photon counting,
impedance spectroscopy, liquid chromatography/
electrochemistry, ellipsometry, and Raman
spectrometry.system, solid-state NMR, live
cell fluroescence imaging, cell and tissue
culture, confocal laser scanning microscopy.
AutoQuant deconvolution and associated mini
tower platforms as well as a Linux cluster
for high-end computational chemistry are
also in use by individual research groups.
Several groups are also equipped with glove
boxes for work under dry and/or inert atmospheric
conditions.
In addition to access to research facilities
in the Chemistry Department itself, access
to a broad range of fabrication, testing,
and characterization equipment is available
to individual research groups through their
associations with the Georgetown Advanced
and Electronics Laboratory (GAEL), the Lombardi
Cancer Center, or the Biomedical Graduate
Research Organization (BGRO).
The department employs full-time electronics
and instrumentation specialists for assistance
with design and implementation of research
equipment.
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