The group laboratory space is 420 ft² and dedicated to research activities. It contains a 4 foot fume hood, gas, water, and vacuum lines. There are five seating stations and six PC's available to search literature, collect and analyze data, and prepare scientific posters, reports, contribute to manuscripts for publication, etc. In addition to the equipment and instrumentation listed below, there is shared-access to other instrumentation available in the Chemistry Department.

Synthesis

Chemicals	High-purity chemicals are stored in a desiccator cabinet.
Analytical Balance	Solid state methods (conventional solid state, ceramic, sol gel, sealed tube, solvothermal, etc.) require careful control of reagent amounts, which are typically weighed to 0.0001 g.
Agate Mortar and Pestle	An agate mortar and pestle is used to grind samples prior to a reaction.
Furnaces	High temperature furnaces heat samples in the conventional solid state synthesis method. Temperature ranges are from ambient temperature up to 1100 C with five Barnstead Thermolyne 47900 box furnaces with metal coil heating elements, 1200 C with two ModuTemp furnaces with SiC elements, and 1700 C with a Barnstead Thermolyne 46100 using MoSi2 elements. High form alumina crucibles are used to contain samples at these reaction temperatures. A vacuum furnace is also available for drying reagents.
Flowing Gas	A tube furnace and regulated gas flow under reducing or oxidizing conditions is used in the flowing gas method. Oxidizing, reducing, or inert gases may be used.
Solvothermal	A Parr Bomb is used in the solvothermal reaction method.
Flux Growth	A platinum crucible is used to grow crystals in the molten flux method. Crystals are recovered with the aid of an ultrasonic bath.
Vacuum Manifold	A vacuum manifold with a Welch Vacuum pump is used in the sealed tube method.
Micronizing Mill	A McCrone micronizing mill with Agate grinding cylinders is used to reduce particle size.
Hydraulic Press and Stainless Steel Die Sets	A Carver 4350.L hydraulic press and stainless steel die set (75 mm, 25.4 mm, 13 mm, 3 mm) is used to prepare pellet samples for property measurements.

Characterization

X-ray Diffraction	A Rigaku Ultima III X-ray powder diffractometer is used for the characterization of crystalline materials. MDI Jade and the PDF2 database is available. The instrument can be used to characterize a sample and provide phase identification. The unit cell dimensions and structure may be obtained via Rietveld refinement.
Rietveld Refinement	The Rietveld method is used to determine the phases and crystal structure of a material. Six PC's are available for data analysis. Crystal structure images can be prepared using Crystal Impact's Diamond software.
Diffuse Reflectance Sphere	A LabSphere RSA-PE-20 Diffuse Reflectance Sphere in a Perkin Elmer Lambda 35 spectrophotometer is used to investigate the UV- Visible absorption properties of solids. An unverified pinout diagram for the 6 to 9 pin serial cable connector.
Resistance Measurements	A Keithley Electrometer 2002 or 6517a is used to measure the resistance of solids from room temperature to 1100 C, or from room temperature to near liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K). Temperature is monitored using a thermocouple attached to a USB-TC. The instrument is interfaced using a GPIB-USB converter and data is collected using a custom built VI controlled with Labview.
Dielectric Measurements	An Agilent E4980a LCR meter is used to measure the dielectric properties of solids. At ambient temperature, an Agilent 16451b test fixture is used.
Photocatalytic Measurements	A custom built photocatalytic apparatus is used to measure the photocatalytic properties of solids.

Collaborative Measurements

Magnetic	A Quantum Design MPMS and PPMS for magnetic and heat capacity measurements is located within the UNF Department of Physics.
High Pressure	High Pressure measurements using a Diamond Anvil Cell and synchrotron XRD with colleagues at UNLV.
Raman and IR Spectroscopy	Raman measurements using a T 64000 Jobin Yvon triple Raman spectrometer equipped with a liquid-nitrogen-cooled back-illuminated CCD detector is housed within the UNF Department of Physics and in the labs of colleagues at UNLV.
SEM and EDAX	Scanning electron microscopy measurements using a JEOL JSM5510 SEM and EDAX chemical analysis is housed within the UNF Department of Physics.
Mössbauer Spectroscopy	Mössbauer Spectroscopy is used to determine the chemical environment of Mössbauer nuclei present in the sample. Measurements are conducted with colleagues in Germany.
Solid State NMR	A 500 MHz NMR with a Solid State probe is housed within the Department of Chemistry.
Infrared reflectance measurements	Fourier transform spectrometer, Nicolet Nexus 470 with Centaurus microscope in the macro chamber with specular and diffuse reflection accessories. Measurements are conducted with colleagues in Brazil.