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
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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
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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
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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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Card reader for room 140 not working
The card reader outside room 140 appears to have lost its mind; it is no longer responding to card swipes. A work order has been submitted and hopefully the repair will be prompt. If you need to get into room 140, you should be able to enter via room 139. UPDATE: the issue was resolved… Read more