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UM Chemistry/Thank you Buckeye for equipment gifts

For more than 80 years, Buckeye Technologies, Inc. has been a leader in producing value-added cellulose-based specialty products for high-end niche markets worldwide. Their expertise in polymer chemistry and fiber science, combined with advanced manufacturing practices and airlaid and wetlaid technologies, enables them to provide the broadest range of products and innovative solutions available today.

The following equipment was donated to the Department of Chemistry:

  • Waters 600 HPLC system capable of quaternary gradient operation -
    Productivity
    : The time-proven solvent delivery design provides unmatched reliability, which means less maintenance and maximum uptime.
    HPLC System Flexibility: Broad flow rate range enables implementation of analytical or semipreparative methods with no system modification.
    Versatile Control
    : Use the Waters 600S controller with PowerLine software for autosampler and detector control. The Auto Blend feature automatically blends up to four eluents in any sequence of isocratic or gradient combinations for automated methods development, column cleanup, system flushing, and sample prep.
  • HP 5890 Gas chromatograph with data system - Unit equipped with a flame ionization detector and a flame photometric detector.
  • QuantaChrome Degasser - Designed to degas samples rapidly with ease and with no subsequent sample contamination.
  • QuantaChrome Monosorb Direct-Reading Automatic Surface Area Analyzer - MONOSORB® Surface Area Analyzers are currently used for research and quality control in such diverse industries as ceramics, catalysts, fillers, nuclear fuels, petrochemicals, solis, fertilizers, carbon blacks, charcoals, fibers, minerals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, cement, powdered foods, desiccants, powdered metals, ion exchange resins, silica, alumina, titania and many others.
  • Bio-Rad Digilab FTS-40 with UMA300A - The FTIR system is useful in obtaining the vibrational spectra of solid, liquid and gaseous samples in the frequency range 450-4000 cm-1, giving important information for identifying unknown samples. With the microscope, one may also obtain finger prints of micro-quantity of samples, such as micro-crystals, micro-fibers, etc.

Please join us in thanking the people at Buckeye Technologies, Inc. for their gift.

Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis | 213 Smith Chemistry Bldg, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3550
phone 901.678.2621 | fax 901.678.3447