{"id":92,"date":"2016-09-10T20:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T04:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:29:58","slug":"lab-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/lab-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lab Facilities &amp; Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sample preparation lab: 157 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>High temperature synthesis and rheometry lab: 157 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>Vibrational Spectroscopy lab: 156 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>NMR Spectroscopy lab: 051 Kemper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our glass synthesis and physical characterization laboratories are equipped with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several atmosphere controlled glass melting (up to 1700 \u00b0C) and annealing furnaces (up to 1200 \u00b0C) including a rocking furnace<\/li>\n<li>Varian UV-Vis spectrometer<\/li>\n<li>Bruker FT- micro-Raman and FT-IR spectrometers.<\/li>\n<li>Micromeritics He gas pycnometer<\/li>\n<li>Mettler-Toledo differential scanning calorimeter<\/li>\n<li>Malvern capillary rheometer<\/li>\n<li>Anton Paar oscillatory parallel plate rheometer MCR92 and MCR 302<\/li>\n<li>Glove box and two fume hoods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-152 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6.png\" alt=\"test6\" width=\"822\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6.png 1492w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6-768x251.png 768w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6-1024x334.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6-250x82.png 250w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test6-150x49.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-153 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8.png\" alt=\"test8\" width=\"736\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8.png 1325w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8-768x651.png 768w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8-1024x868.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8-177x150.png 177w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/09\/test8-150x127.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Solid-state NMR facility<\/strong> is equipped with a wide-bore superconducting magnet operating at 11.7 T, a Bruker Avance 500 solid-state spectrometer and complete solids equipment.\u00a0 The available NMR probes include high spinning speed (up to 35 kHz) and regular CP-MAS probes, triple-resonance probe, low-gamma probe and a wideline probe as well as a unique high-temperature MAS NMR probe (Doty Scientific Inc.) optimized for high-resolution work on a wide range of quadrupolar and spin-1\/2 nuclides in situ.\u00a0 This probe is capable of operating at temperatures of up to 700 \u00b0C with sample spinning speeds of up to 6 kHz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-151 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7.png\" alt=\"test7\" width=\"729\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7.png 838w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7-768x281.png 768w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7-250x92.png 250w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2016\/08\/test7-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Computational resources<\/strong> in our group include a workstation with 16 parallel fast 64-bit Opteron processors to carry out Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) and molecular dynamics simulations of glass structure.\u00a0 Moreover, we also have perpetual site license to use the classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations packages and the plane wave code CASTEP-NMR (for ab initio calculation of NMR parameters) as part of the Materials Studio simulation package from Biovia Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other analytical equipment<\/strong> in the department\u2019s Advanced Materials Characterization (<a href=\"http:\/\/chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amcat\/\">AMCAT<\/a>) facility include scanning and transmission electron microscopes and powder x-ray diffractometer and a host of sample prep equipment.\u00a0 We carry out x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/world\/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/a>, x-ray and neutron scattering studies at the <a href=\"http:\/\/neutrons.ornl.gov\/\">Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab<\/a> and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.anl.gov\/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">Advanced Photon Source (APS) <\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anl.gov\/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">Argonne National Lab<\/a> and high-pressure \u2013 high-temperature x-ray scattering in diamond anvil cells at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www-als.lbl.gov\/\">Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lab Facilities &amp; Equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sample preparation lab: 157 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>High temperature synthesis and rheometry lab: 157 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>Vibrational Spectroscopy lab: 156 Kemper<\/li>\n<li>NMR Spectroscopy lab: 051 Kemper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our glass synthesis and physical characterization laboratories are equipped with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several atmosphere controlled glass melting (up to 1700 \u00b0C) and  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/amrg\/lab-facilities\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><br 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