Instruments and Facilities
Our Department is equipped with advanced research instruments to meet a broad spectrum of research interests. Students with licenses can operate the related instruments for their research. The instruments include five high field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers (with different resonance frequencies) and three mass spectrometers (ICP Mass, MALDI-TOF Mass, and HPLC Mass). These instruments were mainly acquired through funds provided by the Ministry of Education. Many of the cutting-edge instruments are under the operation of the Instrumentation Center (http://www.hic.ch.ntu.edu.tw/). These instruments are available to other research institutes and outreach programs in the Country.
Recently, the Department upgraded many instruments, such as 800 MHz and 600 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers. In the future, the Department will make use of recent breakthroughs in the technology of spectrometers to provide high quality analysis so that students can obtain data with maximum accuracy. Highly sensitive spectrometers based on the state-of-the-art techniques will be established for high throughput analysis to help students from a wide range of research areas in chemistry and other disciplines.
Instruments available at Advanced Instrument Center
| X-ray powder diffraction spectrometer (XRD) |
| Elemental analyzer |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR): 500 MHz |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR): 600 MHz |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR): 800 MHz |
| Electron microscopy |
| Auger electron spectroscopy (Auger)/ Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) |
Instruments installed at the Department of Chemistry
| Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) |
| Raman spectrometer |
| IR/Digital Polarimeter |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR):200, 300 and 400 MHz |
| Multi-mode scanning imaging system |
| Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR): 300 and 400 MHz |
| Dye Laser, Nd-YAG Laser, Excimer Laser |
| Circular dichroism spectrometer (CD) |
| X-ray powder diffraction spectrometer (XRD) |
| Gas chromatography-mass spectrophotometer (GC-MS) |
| N2 sorption – Surface area & pore size analysis |
| Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) |
| Temperature programmed desorption mass spectrometer (TPD-MS) |
Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Core Facility:
| nanpUPLC-Synapt G2 HDMS |
| nanpUPLC-Synapt G2 |
| ESI-micrOTOF-QI |
Chemical Biology Core Facility
| Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy |
| Flow Cytometry |
| Callipary Electrophoresis |
| Multimode Imager |
| High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| Inverted Fluorescence Microscopy |
| Microwave Peptide Synthesizer |
| DNA and RNA Gel Imager |
Computer Facilities:
| DEC station 2100/5/250 (UNIX) |
| DEC Alpha 3000/700 (Digital UNIX 3.0) |
| Silicon Graphics Workstation |
| National and International Computer Networks through the National Taiwan University Computer System (CDC Cyber 170/825) |
| Computer Facilities for Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling |
