Instrumentation & Facilities

Equipment Maintained by Principal Investigators

 
Instrument Name Description Instrument Owner
Micromeritics 3Flex Gas adsorption analyzer Bates
Discovery SDT 650 DSC/TGA Used for TGA/DSC analysis with FT-IR and mass spec Chem Dept (Earl Ashcraft)
Agilent 6546 LC/Q-TOF Mass spectrometer with LIFDI source Used to analyze mass spec for samples with soft ionization technique Chem Dept (Earl Ashcraft)
UV-vis spectrometer Measures UV-vis spectra of solid samples in various configurations Davis
Micromeritics ASAP 2020 Gas adsorption system Davis
Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS50 FTIR IR spectroscopy, DRIFTS Epling
Hiden HPR-20 Mass spectrometer Rapid data acquisition mass spec Epling
2400 series II Perkin-Elmer CHNS/O analyzer Determines % elemental composition of chemical samples Gunnoe
Teledyne Combiflash Rf+ Chromatographic separations Hilinski
Bruker Vertex 80 IR IR/Spectroelectrochemistry Machan
Custom Scribner 857 Flow Battery Test System 20 amp, modified with mass flow controller and manual back-pressure monitoring system for CO2 electrolysis Machan
Custom Parr Instruments electrochemical flow reactor Pressures to 100 bar, temperatures to 150 ºC, back-pressure regulator for continuous operation, mass flow controller, two Fink Chem+Tech high-pressure pumps Machan
Parr Series 4790 100 mL Alloy C-276 Reactor and Series 4566 300 mL Alloy C-276 Fixed Head Reactor with controllers High-pressure batch reactors Machan
Raman Spectrometer IsoPlane SCT-320 Spectrograph with PIXIS:100B Digital CCD; Cobolt Zouk 355 nm, 20 mW Cobolt Twist 457nm 50 mW and Samba 532 nm 100 mW DPSS laser sources Machan
Metrohm 930 Compact IC Flex MF 850 Detector and Dosino Suppressor Regen capability Machan
Hi-Tech TgK ScientificCSF-61DX2 cryo-capable stopped-flow UV-vis instrument and Vertex 80 IR-compatible single-mixing cell Machan
PerkinElmer Spectrum 10 Pike High Temperature/Pressure Diamond ATR Probe IR spectroscopy, ATR Machan
Bruker Invenio S/Harrick Praying Mantis Diffuse Reflectance IR (DRIFTS) Personick
Nicolet iS50 FT-IR Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) equipped with diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform spectrocopy (DRIFTs) and surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) chambers Zhang
PerkinElmer Avio 200 Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) Zhang
Shimadzu Solvent Delivery Unit LC-20AB; Nexera HPLC/UHPLC Detectors RID-20A; SPD-M20A; CTO-20A High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Zhang
Agilent Carry 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer Ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer (UV-vis-NIR) Zhang
Shimadzu GC-2014 Gas chromatograph (GC) Zhang
Buck Scientific Model 910 Gas chromatograph (GC) Zhang
Agilent Technologies 5977B MSD Gas chromatograph (GC-MS) Zhang
Micromeritics FR 50 flow reactor Flow reactor for thermocatalyst Zhang
Hiden Analytical 201 Differential electrochemical mass spectrometry (DEMS) Zhang
BioLogic VMP-3 Multichannel Potentiostat Electrochemical workstation Zhang
Autolab Potentiostat Galvanostat Electrochemical workstation Zhang
Agilent GC/ 8890 online gas-phase product analysis Zhu

 

User Facilities

 

Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility (NMCF)

The NMCF provides a variety of advanced characterization instruments such as X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and spectroscopy (Raman, FTIR, XPS, etc.).

Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Facility

This facility, hosted in the UVA Chemistry Department, houses several liquid-phase NMR spectrometers.