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.