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EPSRC Core Capability Funding Award

Birmingham Chemistry has recently been awarded £1.4M to enhance its research activities through the acquisition of state-of-the-art analytical equipment.

University of Birmingham Aston Webb building

The School of Chemistry has recently secured funding from the recent EPSRC Core Capability in Chemistry initiative. Funds have been awarded in excess of £900k from EPSRC, with a further £500k from the University of Birmingham, and been invested in the analytical facilities of the department in the areas of mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

The items of equipment acquired include a travelling-wave ion mobility mass spectrometer (IM-MS) with both matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation (MALDI) and electrospray ionisation capabilities, multinuclear diffusion and imaging NMR probes, single crystal X-ray diffractomter and a multi-purpose X-ray diffractometer with controllable environment and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) capability.