The Institute of Chemistry is one of the best research institutes in South America with 2,000 m² of instrument rooms and 1,500 m² of workshops and warehouse. Our research group has full access to all instruments and rooms making it possible to perform virtually any experiment our research needs. Prof. Formiga is in connection with other groups in Brazil and abroad in order to provide the group with the best equipments and technology we may need. For example, our lab is just a few minutes from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory with a huge range of beamlines and nanotechnology laboratories. The group is also a permanent user of the Supercomputing Facilities at UNICAMP.

All members of the group are encouraged to learn how to operate all possible equipment, including the machinery in the beamlines of the Synchrotron lab. Below you will find just a flavour of the in-house equipment we use more frequently. Information about several other instruments can be found at the Institute's website.

Single crystal X-ray diffraction

Bruker Kappa Apex II DUO using both Mo and Cu radiation.

Supercomputing Facilities

Powerful supercomputing center at UNICAMP based on IBM and SGI machines with a 43 TFLOPS total processing capability. Managed by CENAPAD-SP.

Electrochemistry

Bipotentiostate to perform cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy and other types of experiments.

NMR facilities

Bruker machines (300-600 MHz) for several nuclei in liquid and solid samples.

Mass spectrometry

High resolution Mass Spectrometer coupled to UPLC from Waters (Xevo TQD).

Powder X-ray diffraction

Shimadzu XRD 7000 diffractrometer.

Raman spectroscopy

Horiba Confocal Raman T64000.

UV-Vis-NIR Fluorescence

Horiba Fluorog IHR 320.

Infrared spectroscopy

Agilent Cary 600 Infrared spectrophotometer.

UV-Vis-NIR absorbance

Agilent 8453 UV-Vis-Near IR spectrophotometer.

Laboratory

Partial view of the benches.

Laboratory

Partial view of the desks.