Instrumentation

Our division provides a wide variety of cutting-edge technology and equipment in support of TWU faculty and student research, education and analysis. Our selection of research instrumentation includes, but is not limited to:

• Nicolet Magna 560 FT-Infrared Spectrophotometer
• Pine Research Instrumentation Cyclic Voltammetry
• Shimadzu UV-2101PC Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometer
• Varian EM 390 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
• Varian Mercury 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
• Varian Saturn 3 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer
• Jobin-Yvon Spex FluoroMax-3 Fluorescence Spectrofluorimeter
• Shimadzu 2401 UV/vis spectrophotometer with a 6 cell holder Peltier
• Shimadzu UFLC HPLC Systems (2)
• Shimadzu RF5301PC Spectrofluorospectrometer
• Paar 1341 Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter
• Shimadzu AA-7000 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
• Shimadzu GCMS-QP2010S GC Mass Spectrometer
• Rudolf Instruments Autopol 1 Polarimeter
• New Brunswick Scientific Excell E24 Incubator Shaker
• Sorval ST 16R Hanging Bucket Centrifuge
• Eppindorf Mastercycler PCR System
• Reichert AR7 Series Automatic Refractometer
• BioRad Experion Automated Electrophoresis System
• Cary 100 UV/Vis Spectrometer with Thermoset Multicell Cuvetter Holder (2)
• OLIS 100DS Circular Dichroism Spectropolarimeter
• CSC NANO Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Dynamic Light Scattering System
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter Q500 TGA and Q20 DSC
• Automated Micro-Osmometer Freezing point model 3320
• DXR Raman microscope, a research-grade dispersive Raman microscope with DXR 780 nm (near IR)  Excitation Laser Set. Nominal spectral range,  50-3300 cm-1
• A 21-node Rocks Cluster attached to 7TB of networked storage. TWU faculty and student researchers have access to this university-owned high-performance computing cluster, nicknamed Agnito. Able to handle large data set computations and analyses in parallel, computer clusters harness the power of multiple servers to act in conjunction as a supercomputer. Computing clusters are used for research in various disciplines, including computational chemistry, large-scale event modeling, social network analysis and real text data mining.