The lab’s dedicated research facilities listed below are used in a variety of configurations to interrogate by in-situ laser spectroscopic/scattering and mass-spectrometric, reacting flow problems comprising:

• Synthesis and characterization of Nanoenergetic materials
• Nanoparticle formation and characterization
• Nanoparticle based materials for energy generation
• Nanoparticle based sensors
• Properties of soot and their chemistry relevant to global climate change

The Lab’s Instrumentation includes:

• Three Pulsed YAG lasers 
• 80 W  CW CO2 Laser
• UV-intensified CCD camera
• 0.5 M flat field imaging spectrometer
• Custom laser induced breakdown spectroscopy system (LIBS)
• Quadrupole mass-spectrometer
• Tandem differential mobility analyzer systems
• Aerosol particle mass analyzer
• Electrospray generators
• Assorted atmospheric pressure laminar flame reactors
• Instrumented combustion bomb
• Nanoparticle synthesis and measurement systems
• In-House developed T-jump Time-of Flight Mass Spectrometer
• In-House developed single particle Mass Spectrometer
• Three Vision Research Phantom High-Speed Cameras
• Lambert Instruments HiCatt High-Speed Image Intensifier
• Retsch Cryo-mill
• High-temperature packed bed reactor with RGA
• TGA/DSC/MS  System
• Molecular Beam Reflectron Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
• FTIR- DRIFTS system and IR microscope