YSU obtains grant for state-of-the-art equipment

YSU obtains grant for state-of-the-art equipment

YOUNGSTOWN

A $470,000 federal grant obtained by Youngstown State University for materials research, along with trades of unneeded equipment, could result in enough money for two state-of-the-art diffractometers.

“It’s like buying a vehicle,” said Allen D. Hunter, a YSU chemistry professor and principal investigator for the grant. “You have to negotiate what you want. There are complicated purchasing rules. We may trade. We have leftover equipment we don’t need.”

The university has two X-ray diffractometers, which allow students to see the structure of molecules at an atomic level, Hunter said.

The new diffractometer or two of them will be 700 times faster with better performance than the two currently at the university, he said.

The equipment should arrive by February or March, he said.

YSU officials along with U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, spoke today at Ward Beecher Hall about the National Science Foundation grant.

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