T he lab's dedicated research facilities listed below are used in a variety of configurations to interrogate by in-situ laser spectroscopic/scattering and mass-spectrometric means, reacting flow problems comprising:

• Nanoparticle formation and characterization
• Nanoparticle based energetic materials
• Nanoparticle based sensors
• Microelectronics processing
• Chemical vapor deposition of nanocrystalline thin films
• Properties of soot and their chemistry

The lab's instrumentation includes:

• Pulsed YAG lasers
• UV-intensified CCD camera
• 0.5 M flat field imaging spectrometer
• Custom laser induced breakdown spectroscopy system ( LIBS)
• Quadrupole mass-spectrometer
• Tandem differential mobility analyzer systems
• Aerosol particle mass analyzer
• Electrospray generators
• Assorted atmospheric pressure laminar flame reactors
• Instrumented combustion bomb
• Nanoparticle synthesis and measurement systems
• Custom T-jump time-of flight mass spectrometer
• Custom single particle Mass Spectrometer
• Cryo-mill