Undergraduate Research Experiences
in Functional Materials
funded by the National Science Foundation
and
sponsored by the Center of Membrane Sciences
Spotlights
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CMS · REU · Presidential Award
Campus Resources
Career Services - career advisors can help you create and update your resume, review application materials and set up mock interviews.
Writing Center - writing consultants can help you prepare your personal statements and review proposals.
Research Resources - the students have full access to shared instrumentation (liquid and solid NMR, electron microscopy, AFM, MS, microfabrication, materials characterization, and thermal analysis facilities) as well as to the computing and library facilities. Available instrumentation includes several spectrofluorometers, spectrophotometers, FTIR, microtiter plate readers, electrochemistry equipment, HPLC systems, fraction collectors, high pressure reactors, GC and GC-MS systems, centrifuges including ultracentrifuges, cell culture facilities, molecular biology equipment, several epifluorescence microscopes with mechanical stage and accessories, Gamma and Liquid Scintillation Counters, membrane fabrication apparatus, and continuous membrane separation units. Also a Total Organic Carbon Analyzer, a PVT apparatus, an interfacial tension apparatus, an automated (30 L) fermentation system, a pervaporation system, a high pressure solubility apparatus, Bruker 300ESP and Varian E-109 ESR spectrometers, a Gamma Scintillation Camera, a submicron particle size analyzer, a rheometer, a zeta meter, an osmometer, a gas-permeation apparatus, a Karl Fisher titrator, a P-V-T apparatus with an on-line densitometer and viscometer, high pressure pendant-drop analysis equipment for the determination of interfacial tensions, a Kratos Analytical XSAM 800 surface analysis system for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a dual processor Linux machine for chemical computation, a Cahn 2000 recording electronic microbalance and a contact angle goniometer are available. Other routine biochemical and analytical equipment are also housed in the laboratories of the investigators.