A variety of modern instruments are available in individual laboratories and in the department’s Major Instrumentation Center, which provides state-of-the-art equipment for nuclear magnetic resonance (both solution and solid state) and other techniques.

This equipment, serviced and operated by a professional staff, is available to all researchers in the department. Other equipment available for common use includes GC-MS, LC-MS, NIR, visible, UV, fluorescence, atomic absorption, and FTIR spectrophotometers, G.C. and HPLC equipment, electrochemical equipment, DSC, DTA and TGA instruments for thermal studies, and X-ray fluorescence and diffraction instruments.

Researchers also have access to the extensive instrumentation in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.