Analytical Chemistry

Analytical chemistry department have the following features:

  1. General Chemistry Laboratory: Identification and separation of metal and non-metallic elements.
  2. Analytic Chemistry Laboratory: Teaching classical methods of measurement based on titration of different materials.
  3. Analytic Chemistry Laboratory: Teaching electrochemical methods including pH, Potential, Ampere, Coulometry, Electro-weight, and Volt-ampere measurement methods
  4. Instrumental Analysis Laboratory: Teaching identification and measurement of compounds using advanced analytical chemistry equipment such as flame atomic absorption spectroscopy and graphite furnace, molecular absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform sub-spectrometry, atomic emission spectrometry, high performance liquid chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance.
  5. Electrochemistry, Nano-Electrochemistry and Layer Point Research Laboratories, which contains 5 Galvanostat-Potentostatic Devices.
  6. Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Research Laboratory: This includes fluorescence and phosphorescence devices, graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry.
  7. Chemometrics Research Laboratory: The overall strategy of chemometrics is to use mathematical and statistics methods for designing or selecting an optimal method for experimenting, maximizing the chemical data obtained from a chemical process, quantitative analysis of complex mixtures, determining the origins of a sample and predicting the properties or chemical compound activities.
  8. The expert faculty members have provided over 300 indexed papers in the world's leading scientific journals and more than 500 papers presented at international and domestic conferences. There are also more than 20 research projects to resolve industry problems. Meanwhile, more than 100 MSc students and more than 25 PhD students have been graduated from this department.

Graduated students of this field with the knowledge and expertise gained in all majors of the field, including identification, separation and measurement, are able to work in a variety of industries, including refineries, petrochemical and pharmaceutical, foodstuffs, cosmetics companies, and to work in criminology laboratories, at the Institute of Standards and etc. In general, they can work in all qualitative diagnostic labs that exist in all industries. In addition, according to the training they have received, they will be able to start their own business in the synthesis, production and extraction fields.

Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials. Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample, and quantitative analysis determines the amount of certain components in the substance. The separation of components is often performed prior to analysis.

Analytical methods can be separated into classical and instrumental. Classical methods (also known as wet chemistry methods) use separations such as precipitation, extraction, and distillation and qualitative analysis by color, odor, or melting point. Classical quantitative analysis is achieved by measurement of weight or volume. Instrumental methods use an apparatus to measure physical quantities of the analyte such as light absorption, fluorescence, or conductivity. The separation of materials is accomplished using chromatography, electrophoresis or field flow fractionation methods.

Analytical chemistry is also focused on improvements in experimental design, chemometrics, and the creation of new measurement tools to provide better chemical information. Analytical chemistry has applications in forensics, bioanalysis, clinical analysis, environmental analysis, and materials analysis.