Equipment

Major equipment include a Labonco chemical hood for polymer synthesis, an EZ 210 Perkin Elmer UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, a Buchi Rotary evaporator, micro-distillation apparatus, two vacuum pumps, pH meters, a Toledo microbalance, Franz diffusion cells, a UV (365 nm) light source, two Pentium based computers, a laminar flow hood for cell culturing and a Steri-Cult environmental incubator.