Research facilities
Research and teaching are supported by a world-class suite of instruments and other facilities including:
Modern chemistry and physics laboratories with top instrumentation
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New laboratories provide a pleasant and safe working environment.
- PC2-certified Laboratory for molecular biology, protein expression and purification.
- Laser Laboratory with optical tweezers, light scattering, and Raman spectrometer
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Laboratory that is well equipped with
- 700 MHz spectrometer with a cryogenically-cooled probe; 60-place sample changer and autotune and match module for high throughput
- 500 MHz spectrometer
- 400 MHz spectrometer
- 200 MHz horizontal widebore spectrometer, with high resolution imaging capabilities
- X-ray Diffraction Laboratory that is equipped with
- Rigaku Spider X-ray diffractometer Microfocus rotating-anode generator with wrap-around detector (unique in Australasia), optimised for small molecule crystallography on microcrystals, powder diffraction and high resolution protein crystallography (new in 2008)
- Crystallisation robot (new in 2008)
- Microfocus rotating-anode generator (one of 3 in NZ), image-plate detector and capillary optics, optimised for small protein crystals
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Instrumentation
- Spectrometers The range includes:
- Applied Photophysics Chirascan CD spectrometer (new in 2008)
- ThermoElectron Nicolet high-resolution FT-MIR/FT-FarIR
- UV-Vis spectrometers
- Raman spectrometers
- Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectrometer
- Fluorimeter
- Polarimeter
- DNA synthesizer (new in 2008)
- HPLCs, GPCs, and GCs including capillary GC
- Microwave reactor
- Capillary electrophoresis instrument
- Solar cell construction and performance testing facilities
- Access to Manawatu Microscopy & Imaging Centre (Palmerston North) that has confocal microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, SEM, and TEM
- Access to the New Zealand Synchrotron Group and Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne
Computing/Electronic Resources
- Powerful computer facilities for theoretical chemistry and physics
- Dedicated post-graduate computer cluster for computational statistics
- Online access to all major journals and databases (Scifinder, CCDC)
