Professor Songi Han (DCB and Chemical Engineering) and Rick Dahlquist

(DCB) succeeded in winning support from the NIH to acquire a

high-power pulsed Q-band electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrometer

that they will make available to the MRL and the wider UCSB community.

This is the most powerful commercial ESR instrument available to date,

that can contribute to distance measurements of proteins, protein

complexes, polymers and beyond. There are many new experiment

capabilities that open up with this instrumentation that would be

beneficial to inorganic chemistry, material science, and  metals in

biology. There are only a handful of such instruments available in the

U.S. Delivery is expected before the summer of 2017.

 

The instrument will be located in the Han lab in DCB.