Tulane Center for Polymer Reaction Monitoring and Characterization (PolyRMC)
Director: Wayne Reed
Contact: Email Wayne Reed or call (504) 862-3185
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PolyRMC has developed unique instrumentation and methods for comprehensive monitoring of polymerization reactions, allowing process optimization, accelerating R&D of new polymeric materials, and potentially allowing full scale reactor control. This work is complemented by their research advances in the area of macromolecular characterization.
Tulane Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility
Director: Matthew Escarra
Contact: Email Matthew Escarra or call (504) 862-8673
Low-Temperature Condensed Matter Lab
Director: Zhiqiang Mao
Contact: Email Zhiqiang Mao or call (504) 865-5084
- Floating-zone Furnace
- Powder X-ray Diffractometer
- Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
- Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS)
- 3He Cryostat
Tulane Instrumentation for Nanoscience & Innovation (TINI)
Director: George Flowers
Contact: Email George Flowers or call (504) 865-5142
Tulane Instrumentation for Nanoscience & Innovation (TINI) is a university-wide department operating within the School of Science and Engineering for the management of shared research equipment. The TINI laboratory personnel maintain the equipment and assist researchers with method development and data collection. They also train students and researchers in the use of the shared equipment.
Cypress: High Performance Computing System
Director: Hoang Tran
Contact: Email hpcadmin@tulane.edu
Cypress is composed of Dell state-of-the-art technology, using Intel Ivy Bridge CPU, Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor, and Luster file system running on Dell’s Terascala storage technology. Cypress will deliver a peak general capability of 668.75TF and will incorporate 7.936TB of fast main memory with 1 Petabyte (1PB) of high-performance storage. Cypress is designed to provide a powerful but flexible design, suited to the computing resource demands of computational scientists and researchers.
