News

Dr. Uddhav Kanbur joined the Chemical Instrumentation Facility staff in mid-August. Uddhav comes to us after spending a few years at Argonne National Lab as a postdoctoral research associate.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Jeff Purslow to our team. Jeff will be focusing on the cryoprobe-equipped NMR spectrometers in CIF and the Biological NMR Facility in BBMB, and he will be splitting his time between BBMB and Chemistry.

To restore pyrolysis capability to CIF, the GC and pyrolysis microfurnace have been installed onto the nominal mass 5973 GCMS system.

The CIF recently acquired a JEOL scanning electron microscope (SEM) for materials analysis and imaging. This SEM has ~10 nm resolution as well as X-ray elemental dispersion spectroscopy (EDS), and can operate in high vacuum and low vacuum modes.

After being down for several years, the ASAP 2020 Physisorption instrument is back online, and test samples show it to be running within specs.

The CIF has reopened the Electronics Shop as a means for researchers to get help troubleshooting and repairing their equipment. Contact Brett with submissions for the shop. 

We are pleased to welcome three new instruments to our services this month. The first is a Horiba time-correlated single photon counting fluorometer. The second is a Perkin Elmer steady-state fluorometer.

Dr. Brett Boote officially started in the CIF on Tuesday after an extensive search for our fifth staff scientist. Brett brings an array of experience to our team, particularly in the realms of spectrophotometry and instrument design.

One less piece of paper - lab access requests can now be submitted electronically.

Our website has a new look! There are a few new pages available, including a comparison of the NMR Spectrometer features and access to MNova licenses and installation information.

Paperless service!!!  the mass spec lab is starting to phase out submission forms.

Google calendar is being used for all reservations. All instruments provide login/logout for all users.

Steve's last day!  Thank you for your support of CIF.  It has been a pleasure to work with all of the students staff and faculty for 41+ years!

The Bruker NEO Avance 400 NMR is here and installed with a BBO probe.  Beginning on June 12 it should be available for experienced users who are currently using the Avance III 600 NMR.  A very short training with Shu or Sarah might be re

The Agilent 7250 GC Q-TOF instrument has arrived and been initially installed.  It will take a week or two for Kamel and I to learn the system and create some basic training materials.  In the meantime, you will start to see lot's more i

The Bruker 400 NMR replacement for the aged DRX-400 is on track to arrive later in May.  It will be installed with "normal" probes for the moment.  The high-sensitivity cryo-cooled probe should arrive in July.

With the assistance of the ISU Foundation, we have successfully applied for Carver Foundation funds for the purchase of a new GC Q-TOF mass spectrometer.  The Carver Funds were augmented with funds from the Agilent Academic Incentives Program