The Vibrational Spectroscopy Laboratory houses several modified infrared and Raman spectrometers which are able to accommodate unconventional sample types. Available to the chemical sciences research community are three Raman instruments incorporating dispersive or Fourier transform capabilities, a Bruker FT spectrometer, an HG 25 high throughput laser spectrometer, and a U-1000 high resolution laser spectrometer. The infrared instruments include Bruker 38-FTIR and Bruker 98 vacuum FTIR spectrometers, a Nicolet 60SXB FTIR spectometer, and a Perkin Elmer 2000 FTIR spectrometer. Capabilities of these instruments include: temperature sweeps from 6 to 900 degrees Kelvin, time-resolved spectroscopy at 6 microsecond resolution, time-resolved dynamic-mechanical infrared spectroscopy, low frequency Raman spectroscopy (to assess degree of crystallinity and crystallite size), and reflectance spectroscopy at a lateral resolution of 1 micron and depth resolution of 10 angstroms for air/solid, air/liquid, and liquid/liquid interfaces. (A428 Conte, 577-1428)