Facilities and Equipment

science center

Swarthmore's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is housed in a state-of-the-art, integrated science facility, which includes modern classrooms and teaching laboratories as well as a generous amount of laboratory space for student-faculty research.

Chemistry and Biochemistry Facilities

Chemistry equipment

Our state-of-the-art facility has generous laboratory space equipped with an extensive list of modern instrumentation that students use in their course work and research, including: 

  • NMR: Bruker Ascend 400MHz with autosampler
  • EPR: Bruker EMX
  • HPLC-MS: Agilent 1260 Infinity II and iQ MSD
  • Circular Dichroism: Jasco J-1500
  • GCMS: Agilent 8860GC and 5977C MS
  • GC-FID: Agilent 7890a
  • FTIR: Thermo Summit X and iS5 with ATR accessory
  • CE: SciEx P/ACE MDQ+ capillary electrophoresis
  • ITC: Marlvern PEAQ microcalorimetry
  • Fluorometry: Horiba Fluoromax +
  • UV-Vis: Agilent Cary 100 and Cary 3500 with Peltier
  • Flame AA: Thermo iCE 3500

Biochemistry equipment

  • FPLC: AKTA Pure and AKTA Prime
  • Cell Disruptor: MicroFluidics M-110Y
  • UV-Vis: Thermo Nano Drop
  • Floor Centrifuge: Thermo Sorvall Lynx4000 and RC5C
  • Benchtop Centrifuge: Thermo Sorvall Legend RT+
  • Autoclave: Market Forge Sterilmatic
  • Cell counter: Wallac 1420
  • -80 Freezers: Thermo UXF40086A and TSX400A
  • Incubator: Infors HT

If you have any questions about our facilities, contact Ian McGarvey, our facility manager and scientific instrumentation specialist.