Core Instrument Facility

The Core Instrumentation Facility is comprised of an array of sophisticated instrumentation for structural analysis of small and macromolecules.  The Laboratory is located in Room 3066 in the Chemical and Physical Sciences Department.  The facility has been in operation since 2000 and is the home of many state-of-art instruments, providing support for all researchers at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.  The objective of the core facility is to provide equipment and expertise to facilitate the use of chromatographic and spectroscopic methods, microscopy and mass spectrometry  in research.  Technical support is provided with the aim of training students in instrument operation, as well as design and execution of experiments.  Once trained, many of the instruments are available to students on a self-service basis. 

All training and scheduling inquiries and requests can me made to the facility Manager:

Dr. Peter Mitrakos
Phone: 905 828 5442
Fax: 905 828 5425
Email: peter.mitrakos@utoronto.ca

EQUIPMENT

Microscopy
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) - Seiko SR50
Confocal Microscope - Zeiss

Spectroscopy
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)- Nicolet Avatar 360
Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometer (UV-vis) - Biochrom Libra S22
Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometer (UV-vis) - Biochrom Ultraspec 3100pro
Fluorescence Spectrophotometer - PTI
Atomic Absorbance Spectrophotometer (AAS) - Pye Unicam SP90A Series 2

Chromatography
High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) - UV-VIS detector - HP 1100 Series
Ion Chromatograph (IC) - Electrochemical and UV-VIS detectors - Dionex
Gas Chromatograph with Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID)- Perkin Elmer Clarus 500
Gas Chromatograph with Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID)- Perkin Elmer 8320

Mass Spectroscopy
MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer - Bruker Autoflex
Liquid Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS) -UV-VIS detector - Waters
Liquid Chromotograph with tandem Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS-MS) PE -Sciex 3000T
Gas Chromatograph with Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) - Shimadzu QP5050A

Other
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)- Seiko SII 6100
Voltammetric Analyzer- HCH Instruments Model 600

CORE INSTRUMENT FEE SCHEDULE