Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Dr. Edward Navarre
Department of Chemistry, Box 1652
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 62026
tel. 618.650.2076
fax. 618.650.3556
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CHEM 335: Quantitative Analysis Laboratories
contents available in BlackBoard
Office hours:
Tuesday 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Wednesday 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Friday 9:00 am - 10:00 am
The research in this laboratory focuses on atomic spectroscopy and developing new, portable instrumentation. Presently, there are projects starting up in direct solid sampling elemental analysis and electrothermal atomization for atomic absorption spectrometry. Things are just getting started. If you want to learn how to build new instruments, it's great time to join this laboratory.
Currently, we are finishing purchases of components for the pulsed plasma system. The capacitors, power supply, and supporting circuit passives have been ordered and are mostly delivered. The support frame for the discharge apparatus is constructed and the machining of custom parts has begun.
The ETA system is feature complete. The first experiments are now underway. A trigger interface between the Ocean Optics spectrometer and the Gage oscilloscope has been designed which allows synchronous data collection with completely adjustable spectometer integration times.
We are very pleased to have Gary Hieftje present the 2010 Probst Lecture. The lecture is scheduled for late March 2010. Details will be forthcoming.
Carrie McNeal has made the first measurement on the ETA system.
Thanks to Dr. Brad Noble (SIUE Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering) for introducing us to the Programmable System-on-Chip.
Thanks to the SIAM Center for offering us time on their CNC mill.
Work has begun on the renovation of the laboratory. As a result, many experiments are on hold while the room is full of dust, but construction of apparati continues. The recent acquisition of shop equipment has allowed Bright and Adam to build framing and a Faraday cage.
Not to be out done by UVM, the University of Illinois (UIUC) has donated a genuine 0.35-meter Heath monochromator, an echelle spectrometer (incorporating two Heath drive screws), a rowgowski coil, and Richard Sack's spark stand. Aside from the historical significance of these things, they are wonderful research tools that we will be putting back to work.
I have recently received a generous donation of instrumentation (including an ICP, MIP, monochromator, vacuum deposition apparatus) from colleagues at the University of Vermont.
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