Department of Chemistry (University of Cyprus)

Research Infrastructure (RI) Name: Department of Chemistry (University of Cyprus)
Website: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/chem/en/
Mission: Teaching excellence at all levels, and production of a large body of basic and applied research with unfailing dedication to academic excellence.
Research Services provided: The Department of Chemistry consists of the following Laboratories:
Common Equipment of the Department of Chemistry:

- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (300 MHz NMR)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (500 MHz NMR)
- Single crystal X-ray Diffractometer
- Powder X-ray Diffractometer
- Mass Spectrometry (MALDI TOF-TOF)
- ^N2 ^Liquefier
- Gas Chromatography
- Liquid Chromatography
- Conductivity meter
- Refractometer
- Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
- Flame photometer
- Ultraviolet/Visible Absorption Spectrometer (UV / Vis)
- Infrared Spectrometer (IR)
- Polarimeter
- Electrochemistry System

- Laboratory equipment for porous solids synthesis
- FTIR spectrometer
- Thermogravimetric analyser
- Freeze drying apparatus
- Nitrogen adsorption apparatus

- Capillary Electrophoresis System
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography System
- Capillary Electrophoresis coupled to Mass Spectrometry

- DSC TA Q1000 with auto sampler and high pressure cell
- TGA TA Q500 with HI- RES software
- Princeton Applied Research Potentiostat/Galvanostat 263A
- Princeton Applied Research 303A Static Mercury Drop Electrode
- Princeton Applied Research Micro-cell K0264 Kit
- Shimadzu Q2010 GCMS with Direct Inlet Probe
- Shimidazu FTIR-NIR Prestige-21 with Pike Miracle Ge ATR Accessory
- CEM Discover Microwave Reactor
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda-25 UV/vis Spectrophotometer
- PolyTherm-A, Wagner & Munz, Kofler-Hotstage Microscope
- Quartz Photochemical Reactor
- Parr Shaker Hydrogenator
- Parr Hasteloy Bomb Reactors (500, 100 and 25 ml capacity)
- Buchi Kugerohl Distillation Ovens
- 3-Stage Horizontal Zone Furnace
- 1-Stage Horizontal Zone Furnace

- Laboratory equipment for organic synthesis
- Circular Dichroism Spectrometer
- HPLC

- Laboratory equipment for organic synthesis
- High-performance preparative scale liquid chromatography

- Vacuum line setup
- Hydrogenation apparatus
- Glove-box

- PQS workstations
- Gaussian
- ADF

- Laboratory equipment for inorganic synthesis
- Visible / Ultraviolet Absorption Spectrometer (UV / Vis)
- Time resolved fluorescence photometer
- CHN elemental analyzer

- Laboratory equipment for inorganic synthesis
- Infrared spectrometer including a near-IR kit
- Visible / Ultraviolet / Near Infrared Spectrometer (UV / Vis / NIR) equipped with an integrating sphere attachment for solid state studies
- Thermogravimetric analyzer

- Laboratory equipment for polymer synthesis
- Spectrometers for Dynamic and Static Light Scattering
- Atomic Force Microscope
- Size Exclusion Chromatographs
- Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
- Instron (Instron Mechanical Testing Machine)
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter DSC
- UV / Visible Spectrometer

- Two Langmuir-Blodgett systems
- Brewster-angle microscope
- Polarization modulation (PM) infrared reflection-absorption spectrometer
- Static fluorescence spectrophotometer. UV-vis spectrophotometer
- High end rheometer
- Isothermal titration calorimeter
- Ion chromatograph
- Quartz crystal microbalance
- Polarization microscope with heating plate
- Layer-by-layer deposition instrument
- Ultrapure water supply system
- Balances with 2 and 4 digit accuracies
- Multiscop (an instrument combining ellipsometry with surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy)
- Photoelectrochemical water-splitting system, with potensiostat and solar simulator
- Spray drier
- High temperature gas furnace
- Conductivity and pH meters, selective electrodes
- Gas flow panel
- Electrospinning system

- Raman resonance spectrophotometer (Nd:YAG lasers, 405 and 473 diode lasers, 632 nm ^{HeNe laser, Ύ m spectrometer, UV- and Near-IR enhanced LN}2 ^{CCD detectors)}
- Fluorescence spectrophotometer with gated CCD camera for time resolved fluorescence analysis

- Transient Gas Flow Systems allowing step or pulse gas switches at the inlet of the catalytic micro-reactor connected to Mass Spectrometer for the recording of gas-phase dynamic responses.
- Gas Flow Systems and reactors for catalytic measurements under steady-state reaction conditions.
- Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer coupled with in situ DRIFTS cell
- Mass Spectrometers
- UV-vis spectrometer coupled with Diffuse Reflectance cell (DRS)
- Equipment (ASAP 2000) for the measurement of several textural parameters of porous materials
- Powder X-ray diffraction environmental cell used under gas flow in the 25-900^oC range.

- Alpha-Beta Counter
- Proportional Counter
- Alpha Spectrometers
- UV-Vis Spectrometer
- FTIR Spectrometer
- Fluoresence Spectrometer
- Electrodeposition Units

- Experimental Setup for Raman Spectroscopy (640 mm focal length Czerny- Turner monochromator equipped with CCD detector, 325 nm HeCd laser, 442 nm HeCd laser, 405 nm diode laser & pulsed (ns) Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm, 266 nm)).
- Experimental Setups for Time-resolved Step-Scan FTIR Spectroscopy (2 Step-Scan FTIR Spectrometers, pulsed (ns) Nd:YAG laser, Digital delay Generator, Amplifier, Oscilloscope)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) System.
- UV/Vis spectrometer
- Other equipment: centrifuge, vacuum lines, Soxhlet and solid phase extraction.