Research and scholarship are products of trained minds, but they cannot be carried out without suitable facilities. The University is constantly expanding these vital tools of our trade and our facilities rival the most advanced of any university in the country.
- Library Resources for Chemists and Biochemists
- UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center -MIC (Home Link)
- The UCLA Shared Instrumentation Facility
- The UCLA-DOE Biochemistry Instrumentation Core Facility
- UCLA Core Technology Centers (Browse Instrumentation Facilities on Campus)
- Affiliated Centers & Institutes
MIC Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Laboratory
Our departmental nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) user facilities have the following spectrometers:
NMR Spectrometers for Liquid Samples
- Neo600
- AV500
- DRX500
- AV400
- AV300
Solid State NMR Spectrometers
- AV600 Solid State
EPR Spectrometer
- EMXplus
Further, Biostructural NMR laboratory has 4 spectrometers from 500 to 800 MHz.
The MIC Materials Characterization Lab
The Materials Characterization Lab offers thermal, optical, microscopic, electrical and magnetic characterization of materials and elemental analysis of surfaces via a wide range of instruments including thermal analyzers, light scattering spectrometers, several spectrophotometers; scanning probe microscopes (AFM/STM), a SQUID magnetometer, a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS.)
The MIC Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
The Mass Spectrometry Laboratory has the following:
- Agilent QTOF 6530 LCMS
- Agilent 6890N Quad GC/MS with EI and CI ionization capabilities
- Agilent 6530 Q-TOF LC/MS with 1260 Infinity LC
- Agilent 6545 Q-TOF LC/MS with 1260 Infinity LC
- Agilent 8800 Triple Quads ICP MS
- Agilent MSD LCMS
- Bruker Ultraflex MALDI TOF-TOF
- Sciex API 4000 Triple Quads (QQQ), with ESI and APCI capabilities
- Sciex 4000 QTrap Triple Quads(QQQ), with ESI and APCI capabilities
- Waters LCT Premier TOF LC/MS with ACQUITY UPLC
- Thermo Exactive Plus Orbitrap with IonSense ID-CUBE DART source
- Thermo Q Exactive Plus Orbitrap™ MS with UltiMate 3000 nanoLC, UltiMate 3000 capillary LC, and Vanquish UPLC (switchable)
- Bruker Solarix 15T FT-ICR with ESI and MALDI ionization capabilities
X-ray Crystallography Lab
- Bruker Duo Single Crystal Diffractometer
- Panalytical X’Pert Pro Powder Diffractometer
- Bruker D8 Discover Powder X-ray Diffractometer
Visit X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory Home