The Mass Spectrometry Facility was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between the Departments of Polymer Science & Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Over the years the facility has been augmented significantly by contributions from MRSEC, external funding agencies (NSF, NIH), and equipment donations by emeritus faculty members. The Facility now houses over $1.5M worth of state of the art instrumentation, which provides a huge breadth of capabilities for molecular weight characterization of synthetic polymers, small molecules and large macromolecular complexes.

The Facility is used by researchers from a large number of departments at UMass-Amherst (including PS&E, Chemistry, BMB, Food Science, Kinesiology, Microbiology, etc.) as well as investigators within the Five College Consortium and surrounding academic institutions.

The Mass Spectrometry Facility operates either as a hands-on research laboratory or as a service facility for researchers wishing to submit samples for analysis. In the former case training is a necessary pre-requisite for use of the instrumentation, but once training is complete and the student is confident they are allowed unrestricted access. In the later case samples may be mailed in to the Facility for analysis. Please complete a submission form for each sample and enclose a purchase order.

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