Newly acquired equipment will catalyze discovery
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
It may read like an acronym soup, but a host of new instruments acquired at CEBC are sure to accelerate the rapid design of catalytic materials and processes.
Miller Associate Professor Franklin Tao adds surface science capabilities with his ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) and high temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
Other new instruments include a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS), useful in identifying unknown compounds in complex biomass feedstocks, a milling machine for in-house equipment fabrication, a gas chromatograph for analysis of vacuum resid, new nodes for advanced computing, and new fixed-bed and stirred reactors.
