Facilities

Absorbance detector (model V4, Isco)
Capillary electrophoresis instrument (Isco)
Clinical centrifuge (model CL, International Equipment Co.)
Digital density meter (model DMA 35, Anton Paar K.G., Austria)
Gas chromatographs (Hewlett-Packard #59090 (3), #5730A)
Micro-centrifuge (model 235C, Allied-Fisher Scientific)
pH meters (Accumet model 815 MP, Allied-Fisher Scientific; Chem Cadet)
UV/vis spectrophotometers (Spectronic 2000, Bausch & Lomb; Lambda 4B, Perkin-Elmer)
Waters high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) system with differential refractometer (model 410, Waters), programmable multi-wavelength detector (model 490, Waters), chromatography data station software (Waters Maxima Software model 820 on a PC), and a collection of LC and GPC columns

Beowulf Clusters
Willard consists of sixteen (16) Dual AMD Athlon MP1800+ machines (including the server) each with 1536 MB of RAM and 80GB of hard disk space, twelve (12) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz each with 512MB of RAM and 15GB of hard disk space, and four (4) Intel Pentium III 850 MHz with 512MB of RAM and 15GB of hard disk space with fast ethernet connectivity.
Helmholtz consists of ten (10) Dual Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz nodes each with with 2GB of RAM and 240GB of hard disk space and a Dual Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz server with 1GB of RAM and 360GB of RAID-5 hard disk space with Gigabit ethernet connectivity.
SGI Lohengrin

Conductance apparatus for measuring the conductance of solutions from 25 to 400°C and pressures to 300 bar
Differential ebulliometers
Ebulliometers for infinite dilution activity coefficients
Flow heat capacity calorimeter for measuring Cp of solutions at temperatures from 25 to 400°C and pressures up to 350 bar
Gas chromatography for infinite dilution activity coefficients
Glass Stage-Muller vapor-liquid equilibrium still (P-T-x-y)
Head space chromatography for VLE
High efficiency packed distillation column (for chemicals purification)
High pressure, double recirculation vapor-liquid cell
High pressure static view cells for gas sorption and polymer swelling measurements
HPLC for liquid-liquid equilibria
LKB batch microcalorimeter
Low pressure recirculation still for VLE
Low pressure and high pressure static vapor-liquid equilibrium cells
Sodev vibrating tube densimeter
Vibrating tube densimeter for measuring density of solutions at temperatures from 25 to 400°C and pressures up to 350 bar

Atomic force / scanning tunneling microscopes (Digital Instruments Nanoscope III, Topometrix TMX 2000)
Fluorescence spectrometer (model 8000C, SLM-Aminco) with total internal fluorescence reflectance (TIRF) attachment
Fluorescence microscope (Olympus)
Forced Rayleigh scattering apparatus with custom-designed high pressure view cell
Langmuir-Blodgett minitrough (KSV Instruments)
Low angle laser light scattering GPC detector (Polymer Labs)
Membrane osmometer (Knauer)
Polarizing microscope (Leitz)
Quasielastic light scattering spectrometer including correlator (Brookhaven) and laser (Lexal)
Refractometer (Bausch & Lomb)
Scanning tunneling microscope (model LK1000, LK Technologies)
Small-angle x-ray scattering cameras (Kratky and Warhaus)
Surface forces apparatus and associated instrumentation
Surface tensiometer (Krauss)