IERC Facilities

Currently, the instrumentation of the IERC is housed in laboratories at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. The IERC facilities are housed in neighboring buildings - Medical Sciences Building (MSB), and Noyes Laboratory (NL); it also has some special-purpose auxiliary facilities in the Large Animal Clinic. The central IERC user facility and IERC headquarters is a 3000-sq.-ft. contiguous complex in the ground floor of MSB.

IERC instrumentation includes:
*Bruker X-band (ca. 9.5 GHz) 200-D EPR with ENDOR spectrometer, which routinely operates at temperatures from 2 K up;
*Pulsed S-band EPR (ca. 2-4 GHz) instrument developed and built at IERC;
*Bruker ElexSys E-580 FT-EPR (CW and pulsed) X-band  EPR spectrometer  with CW-and-pulsed ENDOR;
*CW Q-band (ca. 35 GHz) bridge with Q-band and X-band sample cryostats for the E-580;
*Varian E-line 9" X-band EPR/ENDOR with APD liquid helium cryostat;
*Varian E-line 15" Q-band CW EPR;
*Varian E-line 12" X-band CW EPR;
*IERC-developed U-band (ca. 48 GHz) CW EPR bridge;
*IERC-developed L-band (ca. 1.3 GHz) EPR bridge with surface probe and in vivoEPR capability;
*2 IERC-developed W-band (94 GHz) spectrometers with superconducting magnet stations:
    - one persistent narrow-bore, narrow-sweep and one wide-bore wide-sweep (0 to 7 T) with liq. He sample cryostat;
*Varian E-4 X-band CW EPR spectrometer;
*REKAR NMR relaxometer with low-field pulsed DNP(dynamic nuclear polarization);
*Access to MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) facilities.
    Finally, IERC staff have for their core activities, and can arrange for users in collaborative and service activities, access to many other relevant departmental and campus facilities (e.g., SQUID magnetic susceptibility measurements, NMR service laboratory with istruments to 750 MHz., Koenig NMR relaxometry, chemical microanalytical service, special fabrication, etc.) of the School of Chemical Sciences, the Materials Research Laboratory, and the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Facility.
    Each IERC spectrometer has a dedicated computer system associated with it, and there are also computers (including an IBM RISC/6000-based network) available for data manipulation and analysis as well as CPU-intensive computations that are separate from the spectrometers.
    Laboratory space and instrumentation available for sample preparation include the appropriate equipment for a range of medical, chemical, and biochemical preparations, hood, and tissue culture facilities. In addition, the University of Illinois has one of the best scientific library collections in the country and well-stocked storerooms and makes service facilities available to the IERC. These include glass, machine, and drafting shops, mainframe computer access, X-Ray, microanalysis, mass-spectrometry,  fluorescence dynamics services, and electronics design and repair shops. There is a charge for use of each of these facilities, but certain of these charges are at a University-subsidized rate, substantially lower than commercial rates.
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R.L. Belford (2000) this page may change without notice.