Instrumentation

The ability of our students to succeed at research depends on their having the tools they need. The Chemistry and Biochemistry department at BYU has state of the art equipment in support of our research program. The new Ezra Taft Benson Science Building is a 190,000-square-foot, $30-million building that includes state-of-the-art facilities for all of the department's teaching and research functions and provides room for us to grow into the 21st century. For analysis the department provides NMR, mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography, ICP atomic emission spectroscopy, and surface analysis (XPS, ToF - SIMS, and TEM). Individual research groups maintain specialized equipment to support their own research. Feel free to browse our list of equipment to learn more about our research capabilities.

• Two FEI High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopes with Cryogenic Stage
• Applied Biosystems QSTAR Pulsar Hybrid QqToF Mass Spectrometer
• Bruker FR-591 Dual Source Low Temperature X-ray Diffractometer with CCD Detector
• ION-TOF ToF-SIMS IV
• Digital Instruments Nanoscope Atomic Force Microscope
• Confocal Fluorescence Microscope
• Varian VXR 500 MHz Multinuclear FT-NMR Spectrometer
• Oxford 300 MHz FT-NMR
• Varian Gemini 200 MHz FT-NMR Spectrometer
• Ira and Marylou Fulton Supercomputer Center
• Finnigan-MAT Model 8430 Double-Focusing Mass Spectrometer
• Nicolet FTIR 523 Lab
• Perkin Elmer Plasma II ICP Emission Spectrometer
• High Resolution Infrared Laser Spectrometer
• Femtosecond Infrared Laser Spectrometer
• Bruker IFS-66 FTIR Spectrometer
• Dionex System 4000 Gradient Elution Ion Chromatographs
• Hewlett-Packard Quadrupole GC/MSD System
• Nicolet Nexus 670 FTIR with IR Microscope and MCT Detector
• Bruker FT-ICR Mass Spec
• Low Temperature Adiabatic Calorimeter
• Small Sample Adiabatic Calorimeter
• Chromex 2000 Raman Spectrometer with Microscope
• ThermoFinnigan HPLC with Diode Array Detector
• Surface Science X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer
• Netzch DCS/TGA System
• Lambda Physik EMG101ES Excimer Laser
• Lambda Physik FL2002E Dye Laser
• Applied Biosystem 370A Automated DNA Sequencer
• Applied Biosystems 381A Automated DNA Synthesizer
• Jobin Yvon Horiba Fluoro Max-3 Fluorimeter