Letter from Christopher Moser

January 22, 2003

To Whom it May Concern:

The OLIS RSM 1000 is a unique kinetics spectrometer that is capable of obtaining spectra over the visible range with millisecond time resolution using sensitive photomultipliers that permits the intensity of sample illumination to be minimal. Furthermore, extraction of meaningful kinetic data from the spectral noise through singular value decomposition is built into data collection and analysis and will allow us to monitor the very small optical absorption changes association with the oxidation and reduction of the monolayers of synthetic redox proteins that are a principal object of study of the MRSEC grant. There is no other commercial instrument that comes close to this combination of capabilities.

Sincerely,

Christopher Moser, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Johnson Research Foundation