Analytical services

The School of Chemistry houses a wide range of high quality research facilities and equipment within the Joseph Black Building. These facilities are essential in the support of our research and teaching needs but can also be made available to external organisations.

Two glassblowers in glassblowing workshop working on different pieces of glassware

Glassblowing

Specialist facilities for the design, manufacture and repair of scientific glassware

Photo of sample vials with blue lids

Mass spectrometry

Electron ionisation, chemical ionisation and electrospray ionisation possibilities

MicroCT Facility

Micro-computed tomography with Zeiss Xraida 620 Versa X-ray microscope

Image of chemical structure obtained using x-ray diffraction

X-ray crystallography

Single crystal and powder diffraction facilities

Photo of NMR tubes with colourful lids

NMR

400 MHz and 500 MHz Bruker spectrometers available

Photo of Raman confocal microscope

Raman spectroscopy

High resolution confocal Raman microscopy

Photo of microanalysis instrumentation

Microanalysis

Carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen quantification

SEM image of lead sulfide quantum dots

SEM

Scanning electron microscope coupled with an energy dispersive spectrometer

Thermal Analysis

A series of techniques that measure material properties as a function of temperature, time and atmosphere

BET Analysis

Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis

Circular Dichroism

Applied Photophysics Chirascan VX

FTIR

FTIR Spectroscopy: Jasco FTIR 4100

ICP-OES

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy

UV-Vis-NIR

UV-Vis-NIR absorption and fluorescence spectrometer

Enquire about an analytical service

All enquiries directed to Dr Claire Wilson

CoSE Analytical Suite

There are several College Analytical services provided on a College-wide basis for Science and Engineering. Note this page is only avaialble on campus, or via VPN.