Research Facilities

Chemistry Core Facility

The Department of Chemistry has established a Core Facility that includes the following JASCO spectrometers: a circular dichroism spectrometer, a double-beam UV-visible-near IR spectrophotometer, and an FTIR. It also includes a FluoroMax -4 spectrofluorometer by SPEX, a Cary spectrophotometer, and an LC-MS (single-quadrupole mass spectrometer.) All users must be trained prior to using the Facility. Please contact Prof. George Papadantonakis for further information.
 



Shop Facilities and the UIC Research Resource Center


The Department of Chemistry runs a fully equipped Machine Shop staffed with skilled instrument makers. This staff builds research equipment that is not commercially available.The department also has an Electronics Shop which can design digital and analog equipment and work with students who wish to develop electronics skills. In addition, there is the Glass Shop which can build non-commercially available research glassware.


UIC has university-wide centers for research, such as the Center for Structural Biology, which is a state-of-the-art facility to support cutting-edge research using various forms of calorimetry and spectroscopy, including a 900 MHz NMR spectrometer. The university is continually modernizing the Research Resource Center (RRC) in the building that houses the Department of Chemistry. Currently, the RRC contains several electron microscopes including an aberration corrected JEM-ARM200CF STEM/TEM, as well as several other X-ray, NMR, and optical-based analytical instruments. The RRC also has a significant infrastructure for conducting Mass Spectrometry studies. For more information about the RRC, please visit the Research Resources Center site.

The university’s Nanotechnology Core Facility (NCF) is dedicated to developing integrated circuit and fiber optic technology, MEMS/Nano devices, BioMEMS, Microfluidic, Electromechanical, Mechanical, Chemical, Optical, Photonic and multi-functional devices. For more information, please see the NCF web site.


Major Research Equipment


Much of the department’s equipment is localized in specialized laboratories operated by individual research groups; see the faculty page for more information. Some examples are provided below:


    

  • TA Instruments SDT Q600 for combined thermogravimetric analysis-differential scanning calorimetry.
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  • Bruker D8 Discover microdiffractometer equipped with monocapillary focusing optics (maximum resolution: 10 um) and a Vantec-500 detector.
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  • Bruker D8 Advance powder diffractometer with Bragg-Brentano and Debye-Scherrer (capillary) capabilities.
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Research and Support Facility Links

NMR

Mass Spec

Computing

RRC