Facilities and Instrumentation: Laboratories
The Department of Chemistry and Physics at Armstrong Atlantic State University is housed in a 129,000ft2 state of the art science center opened in June 2002. Facilities include:
- 2 General Chemistry Laboratories
- 6 Chemistry Faculty Laboratories
- 1 Quantitative Analysis Laboratory
- 1 Electromagnetism Laboratory
- 1 Instrumental Laboratory
- 1 Optics Laboratory
- 1 Organic Laboratory
- 1 Electronics Laboratory
- 1 Inorganic Laboratory
- 1 Modern Physics Laboratory
- 1 Physical Chemistry Laboratory
- 1 Mechanics Laboratory
- 1 Biochemistry Laboratory
- 1 Geology/Physical Science Laboratory
Major Equipment- Link to detailed pictures
All equipment is housed in the Science Center. The equipment is controlled and maintained by the Department of Chemistry and Physics. Numerous networked computers are also available for data analysis and word processing.
Equipment, Model, Date of Purchase
-SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 High Performance Computing Machine,128 Intel Itanium2 1.6GHz processors with 640GB of globally addressable memory and 7.2TB of storage, Purchased Fall 2009, NSF Grant # 0849677
--LCMS-TOF Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer, Time of Flight or QTOF,To Be Purchased Fall of 2009, NSF Grant # 0923153
--Microwave MARS Discovery System, CEM Corporation, 2009
--Xray Fluorescence Spectrometer Shimadzu micro-Xray 1200, 2008, NSF Grant # 0736706
--NMR Spectrometer JEOL 300MHz 2002, Hitachi 1200 1992
--FT Infrared Spectrometer Perkin-Elmer Spec. 100, 2008, 2007, 1999
Perkin-Elmer RXII 1998
--Gas Chromatographs Hewlett-Packard 6890, 1998
(FID and TCD detectors), Gow-Mac 350, 1999
--HPLC Hewlett-Packard 1100, 1998 (UV-Vis Detector)
--GC/MS Hewlett-Packard 6890 (2) 1999, 1995
--Spectrophotometers Hewlett-Packard 8453 (3) 2003, 1999
--Polarimeter Rudolph A12630 1999
--Capillary Electrophoresis Beckman-Coulter 1999
--Spectrofluorometer Shimadzu RF1501 1999
--Atomic Absorption Buck Sci. 210 VGP 1999
--Pyris TGA6/DSC6 Perkin Elmer 2002
--Mag. Susc. Balance Alfa Aesar 2002
--Epi-Fluorescence Microscope Westover 2003
--Scanning Tunneling Microscope NanoScience 2003
--Benchtop Autoclave, Harvery, 2009
--Electroporator, Eppendorf, 2009
--Incubating Shaker, New Brunswick, 2007
--Legend RT Refrigerated Centrifuge, Sorvall, 2009
--Sonicating Dismembrator, Fisher Scientific, 2009
--Thermocycler, Eppendorf - 2009
--15 L Fermenter, VirTis - 1902, 2009
--75W High Pressure UV-Lamp Oriel 2003