A distinctive aspect of Beloit’s chemistry program is the emphasis placed on laboratory and instrumentation experiences. Courses are deeply integrated with labs usually taught by the same professor. Each of our courses require students to gain new competencies on research instrumentation.

Our Instrumentation

Student-generated image of mold at 1000x magnification.

A student analyzes an organic synthesis product.

• Bruker Fourier 300 MHz ¹H, ¹³C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR)
• Anasazi 60 MHz ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁹F, and ³¹P FT-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
• Nicolet iS10 FT-Infrared Spectrometer with diamond ATR (IR) 
• Agilent/Varian AA240FS Fast Sequential Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AA)
• Rigaku Miniflex II Powder X-Ray Diffraction Spectrometer (XRD)
• NT-MDT Solver NEXT Scanning Probe Microscope (STM and AFM)
• Griffin Analytical 400 Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS)
• Horiba FluoroMax 4 Spectrofluorophotometer (PL)
• GE ÄktaPrime Plus Liquid Chromatograph (LC)
• Agilent 7100 Capillary Electrophoresis System (CE)
• ThermoFisher Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer
• JEOL JSM-5900LV Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
• Oxford 7274 Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer (EDS or EDX)
• Agilent 7890 and 6850 Gas Chromatographs (3 GC)
• Q-switched YAG laser with 1-Ghz digital oscilloscope
• Agilent 8453 UV-VIS Diode Array Spectrometers with temperature controllers (2 UV-Vis)
• Ocean Optics UV-VIS Diode Array Spectrometers (12 UV-Vis)
• BAS Epsilon Electrochemical System (EC)
• Pine electrochemistry systems (4 EC)
• Beckman Coulter Avanti J-26 XPI ultracentrifuge
• Eppendorf Mastercycler PCR
• Branson Digital Sonifier
• ISCO - High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)