STEM Life, Health and Chemical Sciences

Analytical Facility

What this lab helps me to achieve

• measure ultraviolet/visible absorption spectrum of liquid and some solid samples
• separate components of a liquid sample based on polarity, size and charge and identify by mass spectroscopy
• analyse organic compounds
• determine chemical bonds present in your sample by infra-red spectroscopy
• identify organic gas present in your sample
• identify, separate and quantify components in a volatile liquid sample by gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectroscopy (MS)
• quantify fluorescence in your sample
• determine the temperature at which your material undergo phase changes
• determine organic volatile compounds in your sample SIFT/Mass spectrometry

Who can use it

• all STEM students, academics, visiting researchers.

What instruments are there

• UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• UHPLC/HPLC with diode array fluorescence detectors
• NMR
• FTIR spectroscopy with solid auto sampler and ATR sampler
• GC-MS
• HPLC/Mass spectrometer
• Fluorimeter
• Auto-titrator acid base titrations
• thermal analyser
• SIFT-MS

Where is the lab located

Venables A and C wing, Robert Hooke, Perry D

Who is responsible for this lab

• Brett Keith
• George Bryant
• Matthew Kershaw
• Mike Batham

Research groups using this lab

• Nick Power
• Nick Chatterton
• Simon Collinson

Learn more about analysis

• measure levels of nitrates in this free experiment
• do a flame test in this free experiment
• analyse pesticides with GC-MS in this free experiment