Research Instrumentation
The ability of BYU Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry students to succeed academically partially depends on the tools at their disposal. Accordingly, the Chemistry Department possesses state-of-the-art equipment for its research programs.
The Ezra Taft Benson Science Building (BNSN building) is a 190,000sqft, $30-million building, and under its expansive roof it houses nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment, mass spectrometry equipment, X-ray crystallography equipment, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy equipment, photoelectron spectroscopy equipment, and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.
The Department also has access to extensive electron microscopy equipment and advanced DNA analysis technology (via the BYU DNA Sequencing Center). Additionally, individual research groups maintain specialized equipment to support their own research.
Below is listed all official BYU Chemistry Department equipment. Feel free to browse this list to learn more about the Department's research capabilities.
Agilent 7820A Gas Chromatograph
Agilent 6890 Gas Chromatograph-EI-5793 MSD Mass Spectrometer
Agilent LC MSD TOF Liquid Chromatograph-ESI-Mass Spectrometer
Andor SR-303i Spectrograph and CCD-001 Intensified and Gated CCD Camera
Applied Biosystems QSTAR Pulsar Hybrid QqToF Mass Spectrometer
Applied Biosystems 3730xl DNA Analyzer
Applied Biosystems 381A Automated DNA Synthesizer
BAC Epsilon Electrochemical Instrument
BD Biosciences FACSVantage SE flow cytometer
Beckman Optima L-100 XP, LE-80K and LE-70M ultracentrifuges
Beckman-Coulter MDQ Capillary Electrophoresis System
Biotek Synergy H4 hybrid multi-mode micro-plate reader
Bruker Avance Neo 500 MHz FT-NMR with Prodigy Cryoprobe
Bruker FR-591 Dual Source Low Temperature X-ray Diffractometer with CCD Detector
Bruker IFS-66 FTIR Spectrometer
CEM Discover Microwave Reactor
Cryomech Helium Recovery System
Digital Instruments Nanoscope Atomic Force Microscope
Dionex System 4000 Gradient Elution Ion Chromatographs
Dionex Ultimate 3000 Capillary Liquid Chromatograph
Eksigent Nano 2-Dimensional Liquid Chromatograph
2 FEI High-Resolution TEMs with Cryogenic Stage
FEI Helios Nanolab 600 SEM
Femtosecond Infrared Laser Spectrometer
Finnigan-MAT Model 8430 Double-Focusing Mass Spectrometer
High Resolution Infrared Laser Spectrometer
ION-TOF ToF-SIMS IV
Ira and Marylou Fulton Supercomputer Center
J.A. Woollam M-2000 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer
Kurt J. Lesker PVD 75 Sputter Deposition System
Lambda Physik LPX excimer laser with 2 ScanMate dye lasers
Lambda Physik EMG-202MSC Excimer Laser
LI-COR Odyssey near-IR fluorescence scanner
454 Life Sciences Genome Sequencer
Low Temperature Adiabatic Calorimeter
Micromeritics TriStart II 3020 BET Surface Area and Porosity Instrument
Molecular Dynamics Storm 860 phosphorimager
Netzsch TGA with XTorr RGA Mass Spectrometer
New Focus 6326 Mid-IR Diode Laser
Nicolet Nexus 670 FTIR with IR Microscope and MCT Detector
Olympus Confocal Fluorescence Microscope
Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System for Resistivity, Magnetometry, and Heat Capacity
PanAnalytical X'Pert Pro Powder X-Ray Diffraction Instrument
Perkin Elmer Optima 2000 ICP Emission Spectrometer
Perkin Elmer Elan 6000 ICP-MS
Perkin Elmer Tri-Carb 291 TR scintillation counter
Philips XL30 S-FEG SEM
Philips XL30 ESEM FEG SEM
Photon Technology Inc. Fluorimeter
Rame-Hart Contact Angle Goniometer
RMC MT-X Ultra Microtome
Small Sample Adiabatic Calorimeter
Surface Science X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer
TA Instruments TAM Air 8-channel isothermal calorimeter
Thermo GC-MS, Trace GC Ultra with ITQ 900
ThermoFinnigan HPLC with Diode Array Detector
Thermo-Fisher LTQ Orbi-Trap-XL +ETD
Torion GC-MS
URG 6000D Ambient Ion Monitor
Veeco Digital Instruments Nanoscope IIIa Multimode Atomic Force Microscope