Facilities

Departmental Facilities

The Chemistry Department at IIT Kanpur is equipped with excellent instrumental facilities normally required for research and training. These include infrared, ultra-violet/visible and nearinfrared spectrophotometer, various soli d-state dye lasers, supersonic jet fluorecence spectrometer, magnetic resonance equipment (nuclear, electron-spin), and single crystal X-ray diffractometer with liquid nitrogen facility, various types of chromatographs, polarographs, light scattering photometer, cyclic voltammetric equipment, steady-state spectrofluorimeter, time-correlated single photon counting spectrofluorimeter, stopped flow-spectrometer, high speed centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, electrophoretic equipment facilities for doing protein and model chemistry and photochemistry reactors. The department has acquired a state-of the -art 400 and 500 MHz multinuclear NMR spectrometers, ESI Mass spectrometers, Bruker EPR spectrometer, FT-IR spectrometer, CHNSO analyser and CCD diffractometer to augment research activities. The department has also recently acquired thin film deposition chamber for Nanostructured devices and CEM microwave reactor for organic scale-up processes. A Molecular Modelling Laboratory and PC clusters are also now available in the department. Some equipment like the powder X-ray difractometer, DTA & TGA etc. are also available. The department also has access to the Institute ’s Computational facility, low-temperature laboratory, glass blowing and machine shops.

In order to keep abreast of the latest developments in chemistry and allied subjects, and also to provide a forum for discussions about research in progress, the department holds weekly lectures/seminars, where active researchers are invited to deliver lectures on topics of current interest.

Laboratory Facilities