Facilities
The Department is among the best-equipped in the Philippines today and is home to the National Chemistry Instrumentation Center (NCIC). The Department is housed in Schmitt Hall, a three-story building offering lecture halls and laboratory space for teaching and research. Additional teaching laboratories are also available on the second floor of the third wing of the Science Education Complex.
The Department houses several instruments, some of which are listed as follows:
- Atomic Force Microscope
- FT-Infrared Spectrometer
- Thermogravimetic Analyzer
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
- Universal Testing Machine
- Hall Effect Apparatus
- Hot and 4-point Probes
- Optical Microscopes
- Refrigerated Ultracentrifuge
- 400 MHz JEOL Lambda Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer
- 1D & 2D Gel Electrophoresis Apparatus
- Voltammetry Apparatus
- Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- UV-VIS Spectrophotometers
- Fluorometer for Microwell Plates
- Scanning Densitometer
- Freeze Dryer
- Gas Chromatographs (GC-FID, GC-MS)
- Liquid Chromatographs
- Vacuum Ovens
- Modeling and Simulation Softwares
- Graphite Furnace
