The Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences is housed in Garwood Hall. It's one of the newer buildings on the Appalachian campus and is also home to the Physics and Astronomy Department.
Laboratories in the A.R. Smith Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences are equipped with modern instrumentation which is used regularly by faculty and students. We also provide services to research and industry partners (DOCX).
Below are pictures of some of our labs and equipment:
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CAP 426 - Polymer lab | CAP 450 - Research lab (organic) | CAP 428 - Separations lab |
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Shimadzu FT-IR Affinity 1 | Agilent 6850 Series II Gas Chromatographer with autosampler w/ 27 sample carousel and headspace sample introduction with autosampler | Thermo-Nicolet iS5 FT-IR |
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Perkin Elmer 2100 Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Flame AAS) | Varian 710 ES Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrophotometer (ICP-OES) | Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Horiba Jobin Yvon FluoroMax-4 |
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Bioanalytical Systems (BAS 100B) Electrochemical analyzer | Thermo Scientific Nicolet 6700 FT-IR | Agilent 6890 GC with 7697 Headspace sampler and 5973 MSD |
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Agilent 7890 GC with Leco TOF-MS | Shimadzu UV-2600 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer |
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Dionex UltiMate 3000 High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) | 64-bit PQS computer equipped with 16 3GHz Xeon processors | PCS Instruments High Frequency Reciprocating Rig reciprocating friction and wear test system |
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400MHz Bruker Avance HD NMR | Dionex ICS 1000 w/ anion exchange column and conductivity detector |