RESEARCH FACILITIES

Our modern facilities underscore Rice’s continued commitment to cutting-edge research. Several recent renovation projects in Abercrombie Laboratory have added 16,500 ft2 of lab space to chemical & biomolecular engineering. A network of advanced workstations and parallel clusters supports computational research.

Several labs are dedicated to materials research. Their experimental facilities include a new X-ray diffractometer, pore characterization and thermal analysis equipment, FTIR, three state-of-the-art rheometers, a fluorescence microscope for single molecule visualization, UV-Vis spectrometer, fluorospectrometer, dynamic light scattering, DNA synthesizer and PCR machine, surface characterization equipment (ellipsometer, contact angle goniometer/ tensiometer), HPLC and others.

NMR and high-pressure equipment are used in the energy systems labs to investigate NMR relaxation, diffusion and viscosity of high-pressure hydrocarbons, NMR rock properties, and gas hydrates. The interfacial phenomena and reaction engineering labs are equipped with sophisticated video microscopy and image analysis equipment.

Bioengineering research is carried out in laboratories located either in Keck Hall or the G. R. Brown Hall. The Cell Migration and Tissue Engineering Laboratory studies cell migration and its effects on tissue growth using advanced video microscopy and digital image processing; the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory is devoted to cellular and tissue engineering projects; and the Biosystems Engineering Laboratory has a flow cytometer, a fluorescence microscope as well as various bioreactors to study the dynamics of microbial cell populations.

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