Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science

The Otto H. York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science (YCEES) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) offers core laboratory facilities as a resource for the university and for contract research. It has been the home of many interdisciplinary research programs and initiatives. The York Center was the first building in the nation especially constructed for cooperative public and private research in hazardous waste management. Today it has diversified into many other areas with research projects in nanotechnology, drug delivery, particle engineering, microfluidics, membrane science, environmental science and engineering, and biomedical engineering.


Available are extensive characterization facilities for a variety of measurements that include mass spectroscopy (GC-MS, ICP-MS and LC-MS), optical spectroscopy (IR, NMR, UV, Fluorescence), microscopy (SEM, TEM, AFM) and light scattering based particle characterization, Fluorescence and 2-photon microscopes.

• Bench top Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer System (Agilent 7500i)
• GC/MS/Atomic Emission Detector (AED)( Agilent 5973)
• Triple Quadrupole LC-MS (Agilent 6470)
• Particle size analyzers based on static and dynamic light scattering (Beckman Coulter
Zetasizer ZS and Master sizer 3000 )
• Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (LEO 1530VP with Oxford EDS Detector
• and cryo stage for biological samples being replaced with JEOL 7900)
• Nanomanipulator System (Zyvex)
• Ion chromatograph (Dionex ICS 1500)
• Raman imaging spectrometer (Thermo Fischer DXRxi)
• X-ray Diffraction Spectrometry(Phillips)
• High resolution transmission electron microscope (old model being replaced JEOL-F200)
• IR microscope (Agilent Cary 620 imaging microscope)
• DSC (Perkin Elmer 6000)
• Thermogravimetry Analysis (Perkin Elmer TGA 8000)
• Micro CT Scanner (Bruker Sky Scan 1275)
• Atomic force microscope (Bruker, Dimension ICON)