Instrumentation shared with biology includes environmental rooms as well as a centralized DNA and peptide synthesis and analysis facility. The Department of Chemistry's picosecond laser laboratory, headed by Dr. Thomas Netzel , is unique in the Southeast. The lab features a Brookhaven Instruments laser light scattering system with Argon ion He-Ne lasers as light sources. Total intensity and dynamic light scattering measurements can be carried out. This is useful in determining the molecular weight, size and shape of macromolecules.
Current work focuses specifically on energy and electron transfer in biological molecules.
Mass Spectrometry Facilities at Georgia State and Georgia Tech. Samples can be introduced via a heated batch inlet, a solids probe which can be heated from 25 C to 450 C, or a Hewlett-Packard 5890 gas chromatograph. Samples can be introduced by LC, flow injection, or infusion. This linear instrument has a practical mass range of 300-400kDa. It will analyze both positive and negative ions.