Shared Instrument Laboratory

The Shared Instrument Laboratory (SIL) is part of the Department of Chemistry and houses a variety of instrumentation for chemical and material analysis. This instrumentation is available, for class and research use, to departments and organizations all across campus, throughout the UM System, and to the world at large (subject to the policies contained herein) .

The Shared Instrument Lab helps fulfill the Missouri S&T Strategic Plan by supporting Excellence in Research and Creative Works as well as Excellence in Engagement and Outreach. Dozens of S&T faculty (and dozens more graduate and undergraduate students) have availed themselves of the SIL, as have many undergraduate and graduate courses in Chemistry and other departments. We hope to help you also.

  • The autosampler on the QP-2020 GCMS pulls a sample from a vial.

Announcements

  • Room 140 closed temporarily

    Unrestrained water, ever the bane of instrumental analysts, has put in yet another appearance in Schrenk Hall. This week’s episode* involves a leak in a deionized water line under a sink on the 3rd floor, an overnight leak which turned into a full-blown mess spanning four floors. As a consequence of the damage and ongoing… Read more

  • FTIR returned to service

    After a bunch of back and forth with tech support, and arriving at the point where they recommended a service call (read: $$$$) I decided to give the instrument one more round of diagnostics. I fiddled with a bunch of settings that should have no effect (and didn’t, which I suppose is reassuring). I was… Read more

  • FTIR out of service

    The FTIR has been a little hit-and-miss lately with operation, and the intermittent nature of the problem has prevented Thermo from offering any concrete solutions. Today we have a solid symptom: the interferometer is not moving under software control; thus, no data can be acquired, and the instrument cannot even align its own optics. Consequently,… Read more

  • New bulk storage on GCMS

    The QP-2020 GCMS was equipped with two hard drives in a RAID1 configuration (i.e., mirrored) at the time it was installed. One of those two drives failed, which was not the end of the world…but had the other one also failed, it would have been quite problematic. This morning a new solid state drive was… Read more

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