Laboratory Instruments

Laboratory Equipment for Characterizing Chemical and Physical Properties

The Department of Physical Sciences maintains a variety of modern laboratory instruments for use in classes and for supervised undergraduate research. Most of our facilities were funded through external grants awarded over the last several years. Our instrument collection includes:

Agilent 1200 HPLC Liquid Chromatography

Agilent 1200 HPLC Liquid Chromatography (Funded by WV INBRE)

Agilent 6850 GC Gas Chromatography

Agilent 6850 GC Gas Chromatography (Funded by WV EPSCoR)

Ocean Optics Visible Spectrometer

Ocean Optics Visible Spectrometer

Atomic Force Microscope - AFM Workshop TT AFM

Atomic Force Microscope – AFM Workshop TT AFM (Funded by WV EPSCoR; Physics). Used to analyze surfaces of solid materials at the nanometer scale for materials science.

Agilent 7890/5975C GCMS Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer

Agilent 7890/5975C GCMS Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (Funded by WV EPSCoR)

Rockhound Raman Spectrometer

Rockhound Raman Spectrometer (Funded by WV EPSCoR; Geology)

X-Ray Fluorescence – Horiba XGT 5000 Micro-XRF (Geology)

X-Ray Fluorescence – Horiba XGT 5000 Micro-XRF (Geology). Used to analyze and map chemistry of solid samples up to 10 x 10 cm.

NMReady-60Pro Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer

NMReady-60Pro Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer. Uses the magnetic properties of the nuclei of elements to provide information about chemical structure and molecular shapes. Funded by a grant from the West Virginia Division of Science and Research.

PTI QM4 Fluorimeter Fluorescence Spectrometer

PTI QM4 Fluorimeter Fluorescence Spectrometer

Perkin-Elmer RXI IR Infrared Spectrometer

Perkin-Elmer RXI IR Infrared Spectrometer

ARL-SEMQ Electron Microprobe with Bruker solid-state energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS) and four wavelength-dispersive spectrometers (WDS)

ARL-SEMQ Electron Microprobe with Bruker solid-state energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS) and four wavelength-dispersive spectrometers (WDS) (Funded by the WV Research Trust Fund; Geology). Used to analyze chemistry of micrometer-sized areas in solids.

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES). Used to measure the chemical composition of water and other fluids including trace elements and metals using high-temperature ionized argon.