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Research facilities and equipment

The School of Chemistry is able to offer access to a wide range of modern research instruments and facilities, including:

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Instrumentation

We have NMR Spectrometers operating at 800, 600, 500, 400 and 300 MHz. Information is available on NMR booking (login required).

Mass Spectrometers

Facilities include Shimadzu QP5050 GC/MS, Micromass Quattro ll Triple-Quadrupole and a Finnigan MAT GCQ Quadrupole Ion Trap.

X-ray Diffractometers

We have 2 Enraf-Nonius CAD4 instruments.

Each of these major facilities is maintained by a skilled Senior Technical Officer, who also provides training in the use of the instruments.

Other facilities and resources

The School also supports a major laser facility including a Coherent Femtosecond Ti:S Laser, a Reninshaw 2000 Raman Microprobe, a tuneable infrared optical parametric oscillator, and picosecond and nanosecond laser systems.

A Surface Area Micropore Analyzer, Surface Force Apparatus, a Transmission Electron Microscope and three Atomic Force Microscopes, including a Digital Instruments Dimension 3100, are available for colloid and surface measurements.

The School also maintains a wide variety of other spectrophotometric instrumentation for routine and high resolution work, including e.g., infrared and FTIR, alpha and beta counters, AA's, GC's and HPLC's, UV/Vis and fluorescence spectrophotometers. Further information about atomic force microscopy and raman spectroscopy services is available.
The research groups in the School are also supported by skilled technicians in glass blowing, electronics, computing and by a fully equipped mechanical workshop. There is also a dedicated Chemistry Library with a collection of hard-copy electronic journals.

Researchers in the School have access to the Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Centre, which provides high performance computing facilities, including an NEC SE-4B parallel vector processor and a fast workstation farm.

Research networks

Announced in June 2005, the School hosts the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology. The School is also a participant in the Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-Ray Science and the ARC Special Research Centre, the Particulate Fluids and Processing Centre, a joint initiative between the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics and Statistics.

Several academic staff are also members of the Australian Synchrotron Sciences Network.

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