The Valparaiso University Chemistry Department has the following equipment that is available for use in undergraduate instruction and research.

• Fourier Transform Nuclear Magntic Resonance spectrometer (FT-NMR) - Bruker Avance III 400 MHz - Used to determine the structure of various compounds. 
• Fourier Transfer Infrared spectrometer (FTIR) - Thermo-Nicolet NEXUX 670 FT-IR - Used to determine and identify molecular structure by susing a substances vibrational properties.
  
• Ultraviolet/Visible spectrometers (UV/VIS) - Perkin Elmer Lambda 650, Beckman, HP diode array & Molecular Devices microplate reader - Used to make qualitative and quantative analysis using a sample's ability to absorb visible and ultraviolet light.
  
• Raman Laser spectrometer - Used a research setting to study colloids and surfaces. Fluorescence Spectrometer (SLM) - Used to probe protein-substrate interactions.
• Atomic Absorption spectrometer (AA) - Used to analyze trace metals in solution.
• Inductively Coupled Plasma spectrometer (ICP) - Used to analyze minute quantites of metals.in solution.
• X-Ray diffraction spectrometer - Used to determine powder patterns of crystaline materials.
• Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) - Agilent 7890A/5975C - Used to separate and identify compounds in mixtures.
  
• Gas Chromatograph (GC) - HP5890 and HP6850 - Used to separate volatile mixtures.
• High Preformance Liquid Chrmatographs (HPLC) - Waters - Used to searate non-volatile mixtures.
  Chromatatron -
• Gel Electrophoresis - Used to separate protein mixtures.
• Speed-Vac Concentrator -
• Superspeed centrifuge - Beckman -
• High capacity refrigerated centrifuge - Juan -
• Protein Sequencer - Porton Instruments - Used to obtain amino acid sequences of proteins.
• Microbalance - Cahn - Used to weigh minute quantities of protein.
• Magnetic Susceptibility - Johnson Matthey - Used to determine number of unpaired electrons in metallic compounds.
• Electrochemical workstation - BAS - Used to examine the electrochemical properties of materials.
• Polarograph/Voltammeter - Princeton Applied Research - Used to examine the electrohemical properties of materials.
• Silicon graphics workstations - Used to perform molecular modelling.
• Computer interfaces and various probes