The center fosters research on biological and synthetic membranes and their interface, provides scientific and technological leadership and facilities to develop basic research and to promote partnerships fundamental to knowledge and technology transfer. State-of-the-art equipment for membrane research includes hollow-fiber spinning and continuous sheet casting facilities, high-field NMR, ESR, and fluorescence spectrometers, gamma camera, neutron sources, ATR-FTIR, TRIM, micropipette aspiration, adhesion measurements, fluorescence microscopes, computer-controlled HPLCs, pore-volume analyzers, computer-controlled fermenter, polymer dielectric relaxation and dynamics equipment.