- Ar + ion laser Spectra Physics
- N 2 /dye laser system
- range of semi-conductor lasers with current and temperature controllers
- Optical liquid helium-immersion cryostat Janis (T-range 1.5 K-300 K)
- Optical closed-Cycle refrigerator Janis Sumitomo SH-4.5 (2.5-300 K)
Spectrometers/interferometers/polarimeters:
- Scanning Fabry Perot interferometer (Burleigh RC-110)
- 2 Cary 50 UV/VIS spectrometers; wavelength range 1100-200 nm
- Shimadzu IRPrestige-21 7800-200 cm -1 Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer
(resolution 0.5 cm -1 )
- PE digital polarimeter (Hg&Na lines)
- HP 8452 VIS/UV diode array spectrophotometer
- HP 8453 VIS/UV diode array spectrophotometer
- Applied Photophysics stopped flow reaction analyser (VIS/UV, with fluorescence detection as well& diode array + photomultiplier detection).
- Varian 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with a variety of different probes (e.g. pulse field gradient,
5 and 10 mm broadband pulse, including a probe for the detection of low frequency nuclei such as 14 N).
- High Pressure Modified 20 MHz Bruker NMR for Self-diffusion Measurements in Fluids
(0.05 < D /10-9m2s-1 < 400, p < 400 MPa, -50 < T /°C < 80)
- Shimadzu G-17A/QP-5000 GC-MS
- Shimadzu LC-10AT HPLC
- Varian Sepctra AA400 AAS
- Gallenkamp Bomb calorimeter
- High Pressure Falling-Body Viscometer (0.3 < h /mPa.s < 2000,
p < 400 MPa, -15 < T /°C < 70)
- Anton Paar DMA 5000 Vibrating Tube Densimeter (0 < T /°C < 90)
General laboratory equipment:
- Freeze dryer, with Teflon lined chambers
- Buechi rotary evaporators using Teflon-lined vacuum pumps
- Mettler 5 place balances
- Ultrasonic bath
- Programmable heater/stirrer
- Metrohm autotitration system
- Metrohm potentiostat
- Miller Howe Dry Box
Access to:
- Bruker 800 MHz NMR facility at The Australian National University.
- High resolution mass spectrometer facility at The Australian National University
- Electron microscopy unit (EMU) at The Australian National University