Central University of Haryana

About CIC

The Central Instrumentation Centre (CIC), at CUH, Mahendergarh, has been created with a mission to strengthen technological infrastructure for promoting R & D in the university. At present the facility is equipped with three high end equipment Atomic Force Microscope, LC-MS/MS and Bench-top NMR which can be used for chemical/material analysis/testing/characterization. The facility will enable the researchers to keep pace with developments worldwide, publish their research findings in peer reviewed high impact factor journals. This newly developed facility will be extensively used by post graduate, doctoral Students and faculty members which will be further extended to external organizations mainly academic institutions in the country, on chargeable basis.

Mission and objectives

To develop state-of-art facility centre and promoting optimum utilization of resources supporting analytical and research activities.

Objectives of CIC

To carry out advanced research of various disciplines under a single roof and make their services available to academic and private institutions.
To organize short term courses/workshops on the use and application of various instruments and analytical techniques.
To develop skilled manpower in operation and maintenance of Sophisticated Instruments.

Members

Director
Prof. Gunjan Goel Professor, Department of Microbiology
Deputy Director
Prof. Surender Singh Professor, Department of Microbiology	Dr. Dinesh Kumar Assoc. Prof, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Members
Dr. Manoj K Gupta Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry	Dr. Amit Kumar Asst. Professor, School of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Asst. Professor, Department of Physics	Dr. Usha Nagarajan Asst. Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Manish Kumar Asst. Professor, Department of Geography	Dr. Indrajeet Kaur Asst. Professor, Department of Biotechnology
Section Officer
Sh. Rajesh Kumar Section Officer, Finance Branch

Facilities and Incharges

Orbitrap Q-Exactive Plus Mass Spectrometer (Thermo Fischer Scientific Pte. Ltd)
Incharge: Dr. Usha Nagarajan

An LC-MS system providing High Mass Accuracy and High Resolution. Provides fast, sensitive, reliable and confident detection and identification of compounds in complex mixtures while maintain full compatibility with U-HPLC. The system supports screening applications from routine compound identification to the most demanding analysis of trace level components in simple mixtures. The specific features include:

Advanced Quadrupole technology.
High resolutions upto 140,000 @m/z 200.
Maximum scan speed 12 Hz.
Mass range m/z 50-6000.
High Mass accuracy of <1 ppm.
Selected ion monitoring with high resolution accurate mass detection.

Orbitrap Q-Exactive Plus Mass Spectrometer

80 MHz Benchtop Nmr Spectroscopy
Incharge: Dr. Manoj Kumar Gupta

Magritek benchtop NMR: The Central Instrumentation Center at CUH houses a Magritek benchtop NMR facility (SpinSolve 80 MHz) for teaching and research. The primary purpose of this machine is to identify/characterize the organic compounds produced in the reaction and to monitor the progress of the reaction. This facility caters to the requirements of the researchers from areas such as synthetic methodology, catalysis, medicinal chemistry, natural product synthesis, green chemistry, drug discovery and materials.

80 MHz Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM, TOSCA-200)
Incharge: Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM, TOSCA-200) from Anton Paar GmbH, Austria A scanning probe microscope which is designed to measure local properties, such as height, morphology, friction, electrical and magnetism, with a probe. For acquiring an image, the AFM raster-scans the probe over a small portion of the sample, measuring its local property simultaneously.

Available modes of operation include: Contact mode AFM, Tapping mode AFM.
No sample preparation required.
Sample stage: 100 mm diameter.
X-Y scan range: 50 µm x 50 µm.

Atomic Force Microscope

Co-curricular Activities

ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY CIC

Hands-on training session for BenchTop NMR on 1st October, 2021 coordinated by Dr. Manoj Kumar Gupta, Department of Chemistry.
Hands-on-training session for AFM on 01/11/2021, coordinated by Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Department of Physics.
Demonstration on mass spectrometry based proteomics and metabolomics analysis Date: 28/03/2022-31/03/20222, coordinated by Dr. Usha Nagarajan, Department of Biochemistry.
High-End Workshop on Development and Characterization of Nano Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under Accelerate Vigyan Karyashala
Date: 25/07/2022-31/07/2022