The school is well equipped for single crystal diffraction, powder diffraction and X-ray fluorescence analysis in house and it has good connections to several synchrotron facilities.

Prof. L. Williams has recently purchased a state of the art R-Axis system from Rigaku to support the departments effort in both protein and DNA crystallography. Additionally, we have a CCD based Bruker SMART single crystal system for the rapid routine determination of small molecule structures.Prof. A. Wilkinson has a modern Scintag powder diffraction system with high and low temperature capabilities, and Prof. J. Zhang has a Bruker D8 powder diffractometer with high temperature capability. The department has recently acquired a Bruker S4 X-ray fluoresence spectrometer for the high throughput elemental analysis of both solid and liquid samples.

Georgia Tech is member of SER-CAT, a team of researchers constructing a world class crystallographic faciltiy at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) for the structural examination of biological macromolecules. Our partcipation in SER-CAT is spearheaded by Prof. L. William's. However, the faciltiy will be available to all Georgia Tech researchers with a need for this advanced instrumentation. Members of the department are also actively involved in powder diffraction measurements at the APS and both Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) and powder diffraction measurements at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS).

In addition to the departments use of synchrotron X-ray facilities at the DOE's National Laboratories, there are also several research groups that make use of DOE supported neutron scattering facilities.

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