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NANOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED LASER SPECTROSCOPY
The Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry maintains several laser spectroscopy systems capable of measuring
time-resolved spectra from the far UV to the near IR regions. Various systems
are optimized to measure nanosecond resolution time-resolved absorption spectra,
linear dichroism spectra, circular dichroism spectra, magnetic circular dichroism
spectra, optical rotatory dispersion, or magnetic optical rotatory dispersion.
Software is available to collect and analyze data to obtain kinetics and spectra
of reaction intermediates from nanosecond to second time scales. These facilities
are used in a wide variety of research, including photochemical and photobiological
studies, examination of functional and folding mechanisms of peptides and proteins,
and investigation of fast electron and proton transfer in proteins involved
in mitochondrial and bacterial respiration.
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