School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences

Laser systems :

  • Ar + ion laser Spectra Physics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • N 2 /dye laser system
  • range of semi-conductor lasers with current and temperature controllers

Cryostats:

  • 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).

NMR spectrometers:

  • 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)



Analytical instrumentation:

  • 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