In addition to the Chemistry Department Instrumentation, Research in Chemistry at CWRU is supported by state-of-the art facilities located across campus.

 

LOCATED IN CHEMISTRY BUILDING

• Mass Spectrometry

Located in Millis Hall G10 are several new mass spectrometers that can be used for nearly all applications: Bruker MALDI Autoflex Director: Prof. Genevieve Sauve; Agilent Revident QTOF, Director: Prof. Matthew Bertin; Thermo Quantiva Triple Quad, Director: Prof. Gregory Tochtrop. The Chemistry Department Instrumentation also has a  Thermo GC/MS available for users.

• Northeast Ohio High Field NMR Facility

Millis Hall G10 houses two state-of-the art NMR spectrometers:  Bruker 500 MHz Ascend Avance III HD instrument equipped with multinuclear broadband cryoprobe and full automation, and a new Bruker 700 MHz Ascend Avance NEO equipped with triple-resonance inverse cryoprobe. There is also a 600 MHz Varian Inova spectrometer (equipped with a broadband room-temperature probe) located at Kent Hale Smith-128. Director: Dr Gregory Tochtrop; Manager: Dr Atul Srivastava.

• Cell Culture Facility

Incubators, biosafety cabinets, microscopes, plate reader and centrifuges. Director: Prof. Fu-Sen Liang.

• Earnest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences

Surface Science/Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Energy Storage/Electrocatalysis. The center organizes an annual workshop on electrochemical measurements. Director: Prof. Daniel Scherson.

 

ON CAMPUS FACILITIES FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH

• Soft Matter Characterization Laboratory

This facility includes instrumentation essential for polymer characterization, including thermal analysis, molecular weight characterization, an Apreo 2 Scanning Electron Microscopy and a new automated multipurpose X-ray diffractometer for power diffraction, thin film metrology and SAXS.

• Materials for Optoelectronic Research and Education (MORE) Center

This facility enables the fabrication and characterization of materials and devices for solar energy and emerging electronic and optoelectronic technology.

• Swagelock Center for the Surface Analysis of Materials (SCSAM)

This is a facility for micro characterization of materials, and includes Scanning Electron Microscopes, a Veeco Dimension 3100 Atomic Force Microscope, Surface analytical instruments such as an XPS and a NanoTOF Time-of-Flight Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometer, X-Ray Fluorescence, Optical Profilometer, access to TEMs, and a brand new Rigaku SmartLab Multi-Purpose XRD System.

 

FACILITIES LOCATED IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

• Genomics Core

DNA/RNA services, Illumina platforms for Next-Gen sequencing

• Proteomics and Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Core

This facility has state-of-the art proteomic instrumentation, computational resources and software for systems biology, and proteomics method development.

• Small Molecule Drug Delivery Core Facility

Enables high-throughput screening of small-molecule libraries.

• Cleveland Center for Membrane & Structural Biology
• Cryo Electron Microscopy
• Case Center for Imaging Research

This facility includes Bioluminescence imaging, confocal microscopy, MRI, PET/CT imaging and Ultrasound imaging.

 

OTHERS

• High Performance Computing

High performance computational resources for large scale simulations, including support for quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, cheminformatics, artificial intelligence and drug discovery.

• Sears Think[box]

A place where you can bring ideas to life. It is the largest open-access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

 

A full list of all core facilities on campus can be found HERE.