Although course work forms the starting point of graduate work, your future professional prospects will be determined mainly by your research accomplishments in the laboratory. Our job is to provide you with background, initial research ideas and the resources to pursue them, so that you will emerge as an independent scientist. At OSU, the possible research projects are limited only by your imagination. The research facilities at the Ohio State University are outstanding. A partial list of major equipment in regular use by the Analytical Division is given below.
Several electrode potentiostats with computer control.
Quadrupole, double-focusing instruments with various ionization sources. Bruker Avance 800 MHz, Avance 600, Avance 500 and Avance 300 consoles. Analytical STEM, scanning Auger microprobe, ion mill, and a wide range of related instruments. Scanning tunneling microscope, atomic force microsope.