Rates

User fees are necessary in order to cover the costs of providing access to state-of-the-art instrumentation, including instrument maintenance, certain consumables, and compressed gases and liquids. Rates for MC2 instrument use depend on user category.  If you would like to discuss a special project or collaboration, or you have questions about your bill, do not hesitate to contact us. Rates below may vary depending on work required to address clients' needs.

Mass spectrometry      Materials characterization      Microscopy and imaging laboratory      Magnetic resonance      Thermal analysis and spectroscopy      X-ray diffraction


Mass spectrometry - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY

ACADEMIC

WITH OPERATOR

INDUSTRY

WITH OPERATOR

MALDI (Autoflex III) - per sample $65 $100
GCMS - per sample $55 $90
GCMS - per hour $55 $90
API/AM (EXACTIVE) - per sample $55 $90
API/AM (MAXIS) - per sample $55 $90
LCMS - per hour $55 $90
LCMS data processing - per sample $20 $30
API (LCQ) - per sample $55 $90

 

Materials characterization - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

 

Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area measurements (BET)

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
BET region only - per sample $40 $125
Full physisorption measurement - per sample $75 $225
Operator time - per hour1 $50 $125

Includes service (including activation and measurement) and full report (multipoint BET, sorption data, and pore size and volume calculated using BJH and DFT methods, and more by request). Analysis of approximately 4 samples per hour.

 

Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS)

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
With operator service - per hour $37.50 $90 (plus consumables)
Without operator service1 - per hour $18 N/A
Data processing, operator service - per hour $60 $90
Training $60 N/A

1 Training required for independent instrument operation.

 

Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC)

USAGE CATEGORY

ACADEMIC

WITH OPERATOR

INDUSTRY

WITH OPERATOR

Aqueous phase - per run $20 $40 (plus consumables)
Organic phase - per run $40 $75
Calibration curve $140 $300
System/sample preparation and data processing - per hour $75 $150

Dynamic Vapor Sorption (DVS)

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
Humidity test (water) - per sample $40 $125
Other solvent (HPLC-grade) - per sample $50 $150
Operator time - per hour1 $50 $125
Training $50 N/A

1 Includes service and full report (humidity or solvent uptake, BET upon request, humidity, hysteresis, and more upon request). Analysis of approximately 4 samples per hour.

 

Microscopy and imaging - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

Surface Probe Microscopy (AFM, STM) and Electron Microscopy (TEM, SEM)

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
With operator - per hour $100 $300
Without operator - per hour1 $40 N/A
Data processing and analysis - per hour $50 $100
Training 1,2 $200 N/A
Consumables (SPM probes, TEM grids, SEM stubs) Supplier rate Supplier rate

1 Training required for independent instrument operation. Includes data acquisition (on-line) and data processing/analysis (off-line) instruction. Duration ~ 6 hours divided over two separate sessions.

2 For users of the microscopy facility. Training without facility access available upon request. Contact milab.chemistry [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Microscopy%20inquiry) (Mohini Ramkaran) for more details.

 

Magnetic resonance - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

Solution NMR

See below for the QANUC 800 MHz rates.

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
Bruker 500, Bruker 400, Varian 500, QANUC 500, Varian 400 - without operator service, per hour $25 N/A
Mercury 300 - without operator service, per hour $20 N/A
All instruments - with operator service, per hour $25 $125

The minimum fee for each use of a bookable NMR instrument is the minimum booking time (ten minutes).

Data processing by the NMR facility manager is charged at the same rate as operator service.

 

Solid-state NMR

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
Instrument time - one hour $25 $80
Rotor packing / sample prep time - per hour $25 $75
Data processing - per hour $30 $75
Instrument time - two hours $50 $150
Instrument time - half day (up to five hours) $80 $300
Instrument time - full day (up to ten hours) or overnight (up to fourteen hours) $160 $500
Instrument time - 24 hours $300 $1000
Instrument time - one week (seven days continuously) $1500 N/A

Rotor packing / sample prep time is charged when users are not present during the experiment.

Users who provide their own rotors will receive a 20% discount.

 

EPR

TIME PERIOD ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
One hour $25 $125
Half day $50 $250
Full day $100 $500

All consumables (EPR tubes, liquid nitrogen, nitrogen gas, liquid helium, etc.) are charged at the rate sold by Chemistry Stores or our suppliers. A rental fee of $25 is charged for flat cell usage.

 

QANUC 800

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
QANUC 800 - per hour $38 $237.50
Operator time - per hour $75 $75

All consumables (EPR tubes, liquid nitrogen, nitrogen gas, liquid helium, etc.) are charged at the rate sold by Chemistry Stores or our suppliers. A rental fee of $25 is charged for flat cell usage.

 

Thermal analysis and spectroscopy - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

TGAs and DSCs

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY

ACADEMIC

INDUSTRY

WITH OPERATOR

DSC (Discovery 2500) - per sample $25 $250
TGA (Q50, Q500) - per sample $19 $250
TGA  (Discovery 5500) - per sample $25 $250

1 Training required for independent instrument operation.  Training on DSCs and TGAs costs $65.

 

UV/Vis and FTIR spectrometers

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
UV/Vis/near-FTIR (Cary 5000) - per hour1 $12 $250
FTIR (Spectrum II) - per hour1 $12 $250
FTIR (Bruker Vertex 70) - per hour1 $12 $250
Training on UV/VIS and FTIR $65 $65

1Training required for independent instrument operation.

 

X-ray diffraction - Rates in effect July 1st 2025

Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (SCXRD)1

All experiments are performed by the facility manager (hatem.titi [at] mcgill.ca (Hatem Titi)) - currently, no training is available for users.

USAGE CATEGORY

ACADEMIC

WITH OPERATOR 

INDUSTRY

WITH OPERATOR

Determination of unit cell - per sample $40 $100
Data collection - per sample $250 $625
Full structure determination- per sample $375 $1000
Non-routine structure determination- per sample $500 Contact facility manager (hatem.titi [at] mcgill.ca (Hatem Titi))
Service (data interpretation, report writing, etc.) - per hour $50 $125

1 Data collection and structure determination charges on SCXRD will be applied regardless of sample composition (e.g. starting material etc).

Additional charges are possible for non-routine structural determination because difficult cases of structure determination and refinement require considerable extra time and effort to analyze. Weakly diffracting materials, twinning, air-sensitive crystals, or crystals with highly disordered fragments and high-solvent content often belong to this category. The users will be contacted by the facility manager if samples appear difficult.

 

Powder X-Ray Diffraction (PXRD)

USAGE CATEGORY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY
Data collection, without operator- per hour $30 $125
Data collection, with operator - per hour $60 $175
Variable temperature PXRD - per hour $40 $125
Service (data interpretation, report writing, etc.) - per hour $50 $150
Training $50 $150

1 Training required for independent instrument operation.

 

Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS - WAXS)

INSTRUMENT - USAGE CATEGORY

ACADEMIC

INDUSTRY

WITH OPERATOR

SAXS/WAXS - instrument time, per hour $50 $200
SAXS/WAXS variable temperature - instrument time, per hour $60 $250
Operator time1 - per hour $70 N/A
Training2 $70 N/A

Full service fee is instrument time plus operator support fee.

Training required for independent instrument operation.

 

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