Facilities and Resources at Michigan State University

Laboratory: Equipment Available in Our Laboratory.

  1. Four Vacuum Atmospheres Glove Boxes for moisture and air-sensitive chemistry.
  2. Twenty four computer controlled furnaces (maximum temperature 1100 oC).
  3. Hitachi U-2000 Spectrophotometer.
  4. Shimadzu Diffuse reflectance UV/Vis/Near-IR Spectrophotometer.
  5. Thermogravimetric Analysis Equipment, Computer controlled Shimadzu TGA-50.
  6. Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Differential Thermal Analysis, Computer controlled Shimadzu DSC-50 and DMA-50.
  7. Electrical resistivity equipment from MMR Technologies (temp. range 80-400 K).
  8. Seebeck coefficient measurement system from MMR Technologies (temp. range 80-600 K).
  9. A home-built electrical conductivity (in-line four-probe) apparatus for room temperature measurements.
  10. Several Schlenk and High-vacuum lines for air and moisture sensitive work.
Indigo Computer from Silicon Graphics. Used for structure visualization and modeling in connection with the software program Cerius-2.

Several Pentium /Mac computers.

Hitachi 25 kV Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive analysis located at Center for Electron Optics.

JEOL 125CX Transmission Electron Microscope analysis located at Center for Electron Optics.

The department runs two X-ray Crystallographic facilities, one for single crystal work and one for powder diffraction work. The latter is of particular importance to solid state chemistry work. In each facility, a Ph.D. staff member maintains, runs and teaches faculty, postdocs and graduate students on the use of the instruments. The relevant X-ray instrumentation available is listed below:

(i) RIGAKU-Rotating Anode Equipped with wide-angle and small-angle powder diffractometers, variable low and high temperature attachments. Controlled by modern PC computer.

(ii) Two INEL powder diffractometers with a curved position sensitive detector (Cu rad, Ag rad).

(iii) Two Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometers: SMART-CCD diffractometers from Siemens equipped with low temperature capability. Source of funds: NSF and MSU.

Max T. Rogers NMR facility houses 6 (six) Superconducting FT-NMR high resolution spectrometers with variable temperature capabilities. Excellent technical and teaching support comes from the five staff members (three PhDs) in the facility. Source of funds: Jointly with NSF, NIH, and MSU.

Instrument relevant to this project: Computer controlled Varian VXR 400 (400 MHz widebore). Dedicated Solid State Probe. High power spectrometer for multinuclear, variable temperature wide-line and CP-MAS NMR. Maximum spectral width 2 MHz.

Two FT-infrared and FT-Raman spectrometers:

(i) Nicolet 740 wide range 15000-50 cm-1. Equipped with a high powered Spectra-Tech Olympus microscope for microsampling. Routine use.

(ii) Nicolet IR-42 Mid-IR spectrometer for routine use. Departmental. Source of funds MSU.

(iii) Biorad FT-Raman Spectrometer.

SQUID Susceptometer, Quantum Design. Temperature range 4-400 K. Liquid helium charges: $60.00/24hr. Source of funds NSF.

Thermal Gravimetric and DTA System. CAHN TGSystem 121 and Shimadzu 150. Computer controlled.

Nanoscope Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes.

Other InstrumentationAvailable at MSU

1) Scanning Electron Microscope. JEOL 35C with EDAX attachment. Center for Electron Optics. $35.00/hr

2) Transmission Electron Microscope. JEOL CX. with EDAX attachment. TEM/STEM. Center for Electron Optics. $35.00/hr

3) ESCA Spectrometer. Perkin Elmer. MSU Composite Materials and Structure Center, CMSC. $20.00/hr.

4) Auger Spectrometer. Perkin Elmer. MSU Composite Materials and Structure Center, CMSC. $20.00/hr.

5) SQUID Susceptometer, S.H.E. Corporation. Temperature range 4-400 K. CFMR, located in Physics.

6) NIH Regional Facility for Mass Spectrometry. It is housed across from the Chemistry Building (Biochemistry dept.) and includes two FABS Mass Spectrometers.

 The department of Chemistry at Michigan State University is housed in a well maintained, air-conditioned building and provides excellent supporting facilities. The department maintains three staff persons in each of the electronic, glassblowing and machine shops as well as an electronics instrument designer/maker, separate from the electronics shop. The in-house Chemistry Library subscribes to almost all the journals and other publications of interest to a materials and solid state chemistry program. The department runs a staffed, very well equipped and stocked "chemicals and supplies" stockroom, rated one of the best in the country. The entire stock is available at a nominal charge.