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Chemical
Engineering & Materials Science
| Inventory
Item |
Spectroscopic
Instruments |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Catalytic reactors |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Laboratories with gas detectors & alarms with large walk-in fume hoods |
| Function / Use |
Used
for research with toxic and flammable chemicals |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
UV-Visible Reflectance Spectrometer |
| Function / Use |
Ultrahigh
vacuum/normal pressure apparatus for chemisorption, surface area/pore volume,
temperature-programmed reduction/oxidation/decomposition, and catalytic
reaction measurements |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Solid State NMR Spectroscopy |
| Function / Use |
A
low-energy electron microscope/ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope
system |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
TEM access on campus and at NCEM, Berkeley |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
400 MHz, Solid State Spectrometer |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
High vacuum system equipped for flow experiments and gas analysis by mass spectrometry and thermal conductivity detection |
| Function / Use |
Used for measurements of surface areas and chemisorption
equilibria; pore volume data for nanoporous and microporous materials; temperature-programmed
decomposition and reaction experiments. |
| Source |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner's Email |
bcgates@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
IR spectrometer with high vacuum system and flow system |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner's Email |
bcgates@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Cells for X-ray absorption spectroscopy |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner's Email |
bcgates@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Equipment for synthesis and handling of air-sensitive samples |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner's Email |
bcgates@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Flow reactors with on-line gas chromatographs |
| Function / Use |
Product
Analysis |
| Source |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner |
Bruce
Gates |
| Owner's Email |
bcgates@ucdavis.edu |
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Chemistry
| Inventory
Item |
Lab: Synthetic Capabilities include a number of inert atmosphere vacuum lines |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner's Email |
kauzlari@indigo.ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Several dry boxes |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner's Email |
kauzlari@indigo.ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Centrifuge |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner's Email |
kauzlari@indigo.ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
High temperature furnaces; 4-probe resisitivity set-up for temperatures 15-300k |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner |
Susan
M. Kauzlarich |
| Owner's Email |
kauzlari@indigo.ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
TOF
Mass spectroscopy for collected nanoparticles and aerosols |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Peter
Kelly |
| Owner |
Peter
Kelly |
| Owner's Email |
pbkelly@ucdavis.edu |
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Civil
& Environmental Engineering
| Inventory
Item |
Zeiss
LSM 510 confocal laser scanning microscope and advanced image analysis software |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Stefan
Wuertz |
| Owner |
Stefan
Wuertz |
| Owner's Email |
swuertz@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Taqman
real time quantitative PCR |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Stefan
Wuertz |
| Owner |
Stefan
Wuertz |
| Owner's Email |
swuertz@ucdavis.edu |
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Environmental
Health
| Inventory
Item |
Diffusion
flame system for the generation of combustion particles |
| Function / Use |
The
system allows for the addition of transition metals and other compounds
with high vapor pressure to be studied in the presence or absence of soot |
| Source |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner's Email |
kepinkerton@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Exposure
System |
| Function / Use |
Used
for the generation of aged and diluted sidestream cigarette smoke as a surrogate
for environmental tobacco smoke |
| Source |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner's Email |
kepinkerton@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Inhalation
Chamber Systems |
| Function / Use |
Used
for particle aerosol research |
| Source |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner's Email |
kepinkerton@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Light,
fluorescent, dissecting, and transmission electron microscopy facilities |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner |
Kent
Pinkerton |
| Owner's Email |
kepinkerton@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Nano-MOUDI
Cascade Impactor |
| Function / Use |
Used
for the collection of particles smaller than 56nm |
| Source |
Michael
J. Kleeman |
| Owner |
Michael
J. Kleeman |
| Owner's Email |
mjkleeman@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
SMPS
Units (On loan from the California Air Resources Board) |
| Function / Use |
Used
to count and size particles between 15-900nm |
| Source |
Michael
J. Kleeman |
| Owner |
Michael
J. Kleeman |
| Owner's Email |
mjkleeman@ucdavis.edu |
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Geology
| Inventory
Item |
Access
to piston cylinder and multianvil high pressure equipment |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
John
Neil |
| Owner |
Charles
Lasher |
| Owner's Email |
celesher@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Cameca
SX-50 electron microprobe |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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Land,
Air, and Water Resources
-Atmospheric Science
| Inventory
Item |
Two
large lysimeters 6 m in diameter |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Ten
instrumented movable towers for microclimate studies |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Illumination
systems (monochromatic and simulated sunlight) |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
UV-VIS
spectrophotometer |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Ion
chromatograph |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Gas
chromatograph |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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| Inventory
Item |
Several
high-performance liquid chromatographs |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/studentfac/instrum.html |
| Owner |
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| Owner's Email |
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Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
| Inventory
Item |
Variety
of Laser Ablation |
| Function / Use |
Used
for synthesis of novel materials and for excitation of optical emissions |
| Source |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Two
CCD based Spectrometer Systems |
| Function / Use |
Used
for the characterization of optical emissions, including a time gated system
for time resolved fluorescence |
| Source |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Flame
and Spray Pyrolysis Systems |
| Function / Use |
Used
for nanoparticle synthesis |
| Source |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
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| Function / Use |
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| Source |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Scanning
Mobility Particle Sizer |
| Function / Use |
Used
to measure particle size distributions |
| Source |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Tunable
Pulsed Laser |
| Function / Use |
Time resolved fluorescence spectrometer for characterizing
optical properties of nanoparticles |
| Source |
Andy
Wexler |
| Owner |
Ian
Kenendy |
| Owner's Email |
imkennedy@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
RSMS-II
and RSMS-III: Single particle time-of-flight mass spectrometer |
| Function / Use |
Used
for sizing and analyzing individual aerosol particles in real time. RSMS-II
analyzes positive or negative spectra from each particle. RSMS-III analyzes
both positive and negative spectra. Size range is 10 to 1,200 nm
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| Source |
Andy
Wexler |
| Owner |
Andy
Wexler |
| Owner's Email |
aswexler@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
TSI
Nano-SMPS |
| Function / Use |
Sizes
and counts aerosol particles from either 3 nm to 90 nm or 10 nm to 300 nm
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| Source |
Andy
Wexler |
| Owner |
Andy
Wexler |
| Owner's Email |
aswexler@ucdavis.edu |
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Physics
| Inventory
Item |
Combined
UHV multi-source sputter-deposition and e-beam evaporation system |
| Function / Use |
Sample
preparation: For deposition of multilayers, granular solids, single crystals,
and alloys
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
UHV
multi-source e-beam evaporation system |
| Function / Use |
Sample
preparation: For deposition of multilayer thin films
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Perkin-Elmer
electrochemical deposition system |
| Function / Use |
Sample
preparation: For deposition of multilayer thin films and nanowires
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Siemens
D-500 X-ray powder diffractometer |
| Function / Use |
Characterization:
For structural characterization of crystalline materials |
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Princeton
Measurements Corporation Model 2900/3900-04 alternating gradient magnetometer
/ vibrating sample magnetometer |
| Function / Use |
Characterization:
For measuring magnetic properties of materials, 10K-1000K, up to 22kOe field
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
SHB
Instruments B-H looper |
| Function / Use |
Characterization:
For measuring magnetic properties of materials
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Quantum
Design MPMS-XL SQUID magnetometer with EDC option |
| Function / Use |
Shared
Major Equipment in Physics Department : For measuring magnetic properties
of materials
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
HV
2-source Edwards E306A thermal evaporation system |
| Function / Use |
Shared
Major Equipment in Physics Department : For deposition of thin films
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Lindberg
high temperature resistive furnaces and Miller arc furnace |
| Function / Use |
Shared
Major Equipment in Physics Department : For sintering of solids
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Transport
properties measurement (DC and AC) setup with Cryofab cryostats |
| Function / Use |
Shared
Major Equipment in Physics Department : For measuring electrical resistance
of materials
|
| Source |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner |
Kai
Liu |
| Owner's Email |
kailiu@ucdavis.edu |
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Thermochemistry Facility
| Inventory
Item |
Infrared
spectrometer |
| Function / Use |
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
#
4 Calvet-type high temperature custom-built calorimeters |
| Function / Use |
Used for solution and reaction calorimetry at 700-800° C |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
ultra-sensitive custom-built solution calorimeter |
| Function / Use |
Used
for solution calorimetry at 700-900° C of 3 mg samples |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
Setaram HT-1500 calorimeter |
| Function / Use |
Used
for transposed-temperature-drop, direct melting, and scanning experiments
at 600-1500° C |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
Setaram C-80 and 1 Setaram B-25 Calvet-type calorimeter for work at -150-300°
C and 1 CSC room temperature solution calorimeter |
| Function / Use |
These very sensitive instruments are used for heat of solution work in aqueous
and organic solvents, for gas adsorption studies, and for in situ synthesis
calorimetry |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
Setaram DSC 111 TG system |
| Function / Use |
Used
for scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis at 50-700°
C |
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
multi-instrument DSC/DTA Netzsch thermal analysis system consisting of thermogravimetric
analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and evolved gas
analysis (EGA) by mass spectrometry (MS) and infrared (IR). Operating range
is -150-1400° C |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
1
Setaram 9600 calorimeter system |
| Function / Use |
Used
for heat capacities, heats of reaction, and large mass thermogravimetry
at 700-1500° C
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
High
temperature and hydrothermal synthesis equipment, balances, gas flow systems,
and other ancillary equipment |
| Function / Use |
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
2
glove boxes for air and moisture sensitive samples |
| Function / Use |
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
An
INEL diffractometer with position-sensitive detector (PSD) covering 120°
. Several types of sample holders (flat plate, capillary, holder for air
sensitive samples) can be used. A heating stage is available. Complete diffraction
patterns can be obtained in 1-10 minutes, particularly useful for kinetic
studies. |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
A
Scintag PAD V diffractometer (On long-term loan from the USGS in Sacramento) |
| Function / Use |
This
is optimized for accurate lattice parameter measurements and Rietveld refinements
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Software,
including several lattice parameter and Rietveld routines (GSAS, JADE, others).
The MSI (Molecular Simulations, Inc.) materials science simulations package
has been installed on an SGI workstation |
| Function / Use |
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
High
resolution FEG SEM |
| Function / Use |
|
| Source |
http://www.thermo.ucdavis.edu/facility/index.html |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
| Inventory
Item |
Gas
Absorption Analyzer-Measures surface area and micro and macro pore volumes
(On order) |
| Function / Use |
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| Source |
John Neil |
| Owner |
John
Neil |
| Owner's Email |
jmneil@ucdavis.edu |
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