Resources

An extensive, and expanding, collection of modern equipment is available at the University of Iowa for physical chemistry research. A partial listing includes pulsed laser sources, such as excimer, CO₂ and Nd:YAG lasers, tunable dye lasers, ion lasers, several molecular beam machines, including a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, several ultra-high vacuum chambers with Auger, low energy electron diffraction and IR capabilities, FTIR, EPR, UV/Vis spectrometers, and a range of other instrumentation. Recent significant additions include a cluster of Unix workstations for molecular modeling and a solid-state laser system with a tuning range extending from the UV to the mid-IR. Students also have access to NMR (solid state and liquid), X-ray diffraction (powder and single crystal), mass spectrometry and microscopy (SEM, TEM) techniques through departmental and University facilities.