Chemistry and Biochemistry Instrumentation and Resources

Shields Science Center

Studying biochemistry and chemistry at Stonehill puts students in the $34 million, 89,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Shields Science Center and has them working with accomplished faculty using equipment normally available only to graduate students.

Spectrometers

• Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometers (UV-VIS)
• Spectrofluorophotometer
• High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)
• Raman Spectrophotometer
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FT-IR)
• Tandem Quadrupole Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (Q-TOF) with DART (Direct Analysis in Real Time)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)

Chromatographs

• UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography (UPC2)
• Gas Chromatography (GC)
• Flash Chromatography

Chromatographs/Spectrometers

• Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
• Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

Biotechnology Instruments

• Sorvall Ultracentrifuge
• Refrigerated Microcentrifuges
• Temperature-Controlled Water Circulators
• Electroporator
• Microplate Reader
• PCR and Quantitative PCR Machine
• Digital-Photo-Equipped UV Transilluminator

Additional Instruments

• 3D Printer
• Digital Polarimeter
• Femtosecond Pulsed Laser
• Glove Box
• Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope
• Solution Calorimeter
• Tensiometer