• Environmental Laboratories
• Laboratory for Development of On-line Monitoring & Field Analytical Techniques
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE)

Research Efforts Include:

Environmental

• Anaerobic and aerobic biotreatment processes
• Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of combustion and pyrolysis processes
• Modeling of environmental reaction systems
• Hydrogeology
• Sampling and analysis of organic and inorganic pollutants
• Supercritical extraction for environmental sample preparation
• Novel routes for solvent-less chemical synthesis
• Ultrasonic enhancement of in-situ remediation
• Wetlands studies
• Restoration ecology

 Biochemical

• Chromatographic separations
•  Blood chemistry
•  Protein Engineering
•  Catalysis
•  Directed Evolution of Proteins

Chemistry

• Catalysts for asymmetric synthesis
• Laser kinetic spectroscopy
• Photochemistry
• Computer-aided drug design
• Chemical reactions in supercritical fluids
• Chemometrics
• Analytical method development
• Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of gas phase reactions
• Plasma chemistry
•  Materials Science
•  Studies of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes
•  Particle flow systems
•  Polymer characterization
•  Nanoparticle production, characterization and modeling