Crystallography at Rice University

 

Shared Equipment Authority

Rice University - 6100 Main Street - Houston, TX 77005 - USA

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Acquisition of a Bruker SMART 1000 CCD was made possible through the generosity of the Welch Foundation and Rice University.

 
The facility will serve universities and colleges throughout the state of Texas, including but not limited to Austin College, Midwestern State University, Rice, SMU, TCU, Texas A & M at Commerce, Texas Tech, Texas Women's University, Trinity University, UNT, UTA, UTD, and UTEP. Expansion of the number of schools served by the facility is an ongoing process.
 

 
User Groups
  • A primary group of users are research oriented faculty, post doctoral fellows, and graduate students.
    • The Rice instrument can enhance the use of crystallography in many research programs by enabling data collection on samples that are too small, weak, or unstable. This category includes chemists at Texas Tech, TCU, SMU, UTEP, and UTA.
    • For scientists who have had regular access to X-ray capabilities, the Rice facility can be the primary source of data. Users in this group include UNT and UTD.
    • A third group of users consists of scientists who have not previously had ready access to crystallographic facilities. This group includes users at TWU, Trinity University, Midwestern State University, and several other Texas educational institutions.
  • Another group includes educational users at the undergraduate level.
  • The instrument is also available for industrial use.
 
Data will be collected by professionally trained personnel within the Center. Services range from raw data collection by staff or user through full structure determination of the submitted sample.
 
 
 
Personnel
 
Richard Crouse
Shared Equipment Authority
 
 
Instrumentation
 
The Bruker SMART 1000 CCD System allows rapid collection of data on crystals that were previously considered to be too small or of very poor quality. The speed of data collection is dramatically increased, with data collection averaging six hours.
 

 
For further information, please contact:
Richard Crouse
Shared Equipment Authority

 

Acknowledgment:

For Publication purposes, the following acknowledgments are suggested:

Acknowledgment. X-ray diffraction was performed at the Robert A. Welch Foundation funded Texas Center for Crystallography at Rice University.

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