Shared Facilities

The Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering maintains a set of Shared Facilities as outlined below. The facilities range from routine chemical, physical and materials characterization facilities, to state-of-the-art nanomaterials synthesis facilities.

These facilities are available to researchers in the Department and others at the university, local region, and world-wide.

Chemical and Environmental Analysis Facility (CEAF) Interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership with academia and industry Synthesis and characterization of materials using inbuilt instrumentation techniques

UltraFast Laser Facility at Center for Solar Energy and Energy Storage (CSEES) Spectroscopic and temporal characterization of ultrafast photophysical processes Broad range of materials - natural light harvesting complexes and pigments, semiconductor films and nanoparticles, solar cells, and synthetic dyes Coordinator: Vijay Ramani

Solar Energy and Energy Storage

• Advance solar energy conversion technologies by promoting development of new materials, devices and system level scale-ups
• Electrochemical characterization
• Coordinator: Vijay Ramani

Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering (CASE)  Focuses on the advancement of science and technology of aerosol systems Characterize fundamental aerosol formation and transformation processes to determine impacts on the Environment, Climate, and Human Health Coordinators: Ben Kumfer & Jian Wang