Purchase of Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy Instrumentation

在化学研究仪器和设施：部门多用户仪器（CRIF:MU）计划的支持下，凯斯西储大学化学系将获得一套超快激光器和相关仪器，以在新的化学动力学中心（CCD）建立实验能力。该设备将允许研究人员在光物理和光化学研究中进行大量最先进的实验。CCD中新仪器的加入预计将影响重要的研究领域，如蛋白质组学、光动力学和其他治疗设计、化学生物学、分子电子学和计算、光和电活性材料以及纳米材料。该仪器将在正式和非正式的实验室环境中使用，以吸引Case的本科生研究光活性系统的质量，时间分辨光谱。在未来，这项本科生研究计划将扩大到其他机构的学生到CCD参加暑期课程。这些努力将通过高级顶点项目和传统的本科研究（最初，凯斯每年有30-40名化学学士和学士学位学生）提供本科水平的研究经验。超快激光光谱学提供了一种强大的分子信息探针。许多化学和生物过程发生在飞秒时间尺度上，包括电子转移、光化学反应和分子能量动力学。CCD是凯斯的一项新努力，旨在促进化学动力学在物理科学、工程和生物医学领域的核心应用方面的世界级研究。

With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Departmental Multi-User Instrumentation (CRIF:MU) Program, the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University will acquire a set of ultrafast lasers and associated instrumentation to build the experimental capability in a new Center for Chemical Dynamics (CCD). This equipment will allow researchers to pursue a large number of state-of-the-art experiments in photophysical and photochemical research. Addition of the new instrumentation in the CCD is expected to impact important research areas such as proteomics, photodynamic and other therapeutic designs, chemical biology, molecular electronics and computing, photo- and electroactive materials, and nanomaterials. The instrumentation will be used in formal and informal laboratory settings to engage undergraduate students at Case in research-quality, time-resolved spectroscopy of photoactive systems. In the future, this undergraduate research initiative will be expanded to bring students at other institutions to the CCD for summer programs. These efforts will provide research experience at the undergraduate level through senior capstone projects and traditional undergraduate research (initially, 30-40 BS and BA Chemistry majors per year at Case). Ultrafast laser spectroscopy provides a powerful probe of molecular information. Many chemical and biological processes occur on the femtosecond time scale, including electron transfer, photochemical reactions, and molecular energy dynamics. The CCD is a new effort at Case to foster world-class research into chemical dynamics in its central applications to the physical sciences, engineering and biomedical fields.