Special University Facilities

Researchers in Chemical Engineering have access to a number of multiuser facilities located nearby. These include solid-state and solution NMRm STEM, TEM, SEM and EDS, single crystal and powder X-ray diffractometers, ICP-MS, and mechanical repeated loading materials testing equipment. The LSU Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) provides opportunity for research into microfabrication using nanocomposites and electrodeposited alloys. Facilities include a synchrotron radiation source, gas-phase photoionization and fluorescence spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, soft X-ray fluorescence, X-ray lithographyhigh-aspect-ratio microfabrication, XAFS/NEXAFS, time-of-flight mass spectroscopy and high- resolution XRD.

A two million BTU/hr pilot-scale incinerator is used in hazardous waste combustion studies. This highly instrumented system is currently being enhanced with laser diagnostic capability for non-invasive flow and composition measurements.

The LSU Polymer Analysis Facility serves polymer researchers throughout LSU with two laser light scattering facilities, two gel permeation chromatographs, membrane and vapor-phase osmometers, and a thermal analysis facility which includes DSC, TGA/DTA, a steady-state and oscillatory thermomechanical analyzer, and a dynamic mechanical analyzer. There are also specialized optical microscopy and fluorescence photobleaching recovery apparatus.