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【简介】 Boston College's Chemistry Department is located in the Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center. Opened in 1991, the Merkert Center is a standard of laboratory innovation and excellence. The research community includes 18 faculty, over 100 graduate students, 25 postdoctoral fellows and many undergraduates who work side-by-side in the laboratories.
Research Facilities and Equipment
Instrumentation The Chemistry Department is housed in the 109,000-square-foot Merkert Chemistry Center, which was completed in the summer of 1991. The building contains modern classrooms, laboratories, and computer facilities. Each faculty member participated in the design of his or her laboratory, built to accommodate state-of-the-art instrumentation and to provide flexibility for new equipment.
The center's sophisticated research resources include a high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer facility featuring 300 MHz, 400 MHz (2), and 500 MHz NMR spectrometers and related computer facilities. In addition, Merkert contains an X-ray crystallography laboratory fully equipped with several diffractometers, including an area detector instrument, constant temperature rooms for crystal growth, and several VAX and Silicon Graphics computers for investigation of protein and small molecule structure. The internationally recognized research programs in the Chemistry Department rely on many other types of sophisticated instrumentation that are available in Merkert Center, including:FT-IR, UV-Vis, and circular dichroism spectrometers Spectrofluorometer GC-mass spectrometers Electrospray mass spectrometer MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry Gas and high performance liquid chromatography High throughput HPLC and GC robotics DNA synthesizers EPR spectrometer Stopped-flow kinetics apparatus Cell culture equipment Preparative centrifuges Scintillation Counter Ultrafast lasers Ultrahigh vacuum apparatus Magnetic susceptibility apparatus Potentiostats for electrochemical analysis DNA- and protein-sequencing equipment Scanning electron microscope (BC Physics) Tunnelling electron microscope (BC Physics) Atomic force microscope (BC Physics) Additional state-of-the-art instrumentation is easily accessible to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at the several nearby institutions through cooperative reciprocal arrangements.
