Kent State University is home to world-class research facilities.  Research laboratories are located primarily in Williams Hall and the attached Science Research Laboratory.  In addition, excellent materials' characterization facilities and one of the largest academic clean-room facilities in the nation are housed in the nearby Liquid Crystal Institute.  A confocal microscopy core facility located in the biology department is also available to chemistry students.  Williams Hall houses two large lecture halls, classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, the Chemistry-Physics Library, chemical stockrooms, and glass and electronic shops.  A machine shop, which is jointly operated with the physics department, is located in adjoining Smith Hall.  Spectrometers include 500-MHz, 400-MHz (solids), and 300-MHz high-resolution NMR instruments; electrospray; MALDI-TOF, LC/ESI, protein chip SELDI mass spectrometers; various high-end FT-IR spectrometers, including a focal plane array FT-IR microscope for spectroscopic imaging; photon-counting fluorometer; circular dichroism; ESR, FPLC, UV/visible spectrometers; AA/AE equipment; and an EDX-700 energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer.  An X-ray facility includes a Siemens D5000 Powder diffractometer and a Bruker AXS CCD instrument for single-crystal structural elucidation.

Equipment available in specialty areas includes a microwave spectrometer, an LCQ electrospray mass spectrometer with MS/MS capability, a phosphorimager, Microcal VP DSC and ITC calorimeters, Bruker Vector 33 FTIR-NIR, Jobin Yvon Raman spectrometer with inverted microscope, laser tweezer instrumentation, particle sizer, Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer, MF2 Jobin Yvon fluorescence lifetime spectrometer, fluorescence correlation spectrometer, ThermoFinnigan Polaris Q115W GC-MS, a BAS electrochemical analyzer, various preparative centrifuges, a molecular dynamic Typhoon 8600 imaging system, and PCR and DNA sequencing and cell culture facilities.  Individual research groups in the Department of Chemistry maintain a variety of computer systems, including PCs and workstations.  High-performance computing is made possible with access to the Ohio Supercomputer Center, which maintains Cray T94, Cray T3E, IBM SP2, and SGI Origin 2000 supercomputers.  The Department has advanced molecular modeling facilities, including Cerius, Felix, Hyperchem, Insight II/Discover, Macromodel, and Spartan packages for modeling surfaces and interfaces, polymers, proteins, and nucleic acids, as well as facilities for performing ab initio calculations of molecular properties and molecular dynamics.  A 3-D immersive classroom equipped with a rear projection system that generates 6'x7' three-dimensional images when viewed with shutter glasses is available in Williams Hall and is frequently used in a variety of graduate classes.  The Chemistry/Physics Library in Williams Hall provides online access to virtually all chemical/biochemical journals as well as a broad variety of chemical databases, including the Chemical Abstracts SciFinder service.

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