Our laboratory maintains a wide range of instrumentation to support our research efforts including many instruments devoted solely to solving materials related problems. We also have an electronics fabrication laboratory for instrument design and a modern machine shop with CNC and 3D printing capability.

• Dynamic Light Scattering –DynaPro NanoStar (Wyatt Technologies)
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry – Q20 DSC (TA Instruments)
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis – Q50 TGA (TA Instruments)
• Isothermal Titration Calorimetry – Nano ITC (TA Instruments)
• Elemental analysis – FLASH 2000 Series CHNS/O Analyzer (Thermo)
• Surface Area and Pore Size Distribution analysis – NOVA 2200e (Quantachrome)
• Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR, RAS, variable temperature RAS) – (Varian 3100 FTIR, Thermo Scientific iS50 FTIR)
• Infrared Microscopy  – Nicolet Continuum microscope
• Raman Spectroscopy  – Thermo Scientific DXR3 Raman microscope
• Scanning electron microscopy –JEOL JSM-IT500HR SEM with EDS
• High performance liquid chromatography w/ ELSD detector – Prominence (Shimadzu)
• Gas chromatography – GC 2010 (Shimadzu)
• Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy – ICPE 9000 (Shimadzu)
• Atomic absorption spectroscopy – 240FS AA (Agilent)
• Uv-vis spectroscopy – 8453 Diode array system (Agilent)
• Microwave assisted synthesis – MARS system (CEM Corporation)
• Conventional synthesis – 4590 micro stirred reactor (Parr Instruments)
• Freeze Dryer – Labconco

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• Fluorescence microscopy – Eclipse 80i (Nikon)

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• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy – PHI Quanterra SXM
• Scanning electron microscopy – LEO (Zeiss) 1550 field emission SEM
• Atomic force microscopy – Veeco multimode AFM