Facilities
The Aqueous Geochemistry and Mineralogy Group maintains a large (1250 ft2) aqueous geochemistry laboratory in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Building. These spaces includes standard wet chemical equipment, Coy Laboratory Products anaerobic chambers, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, autotitrator, muffle and tube furnaces, crystal synthesis and polishing equipment, Agilent Technologies model 5500 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), capable of imaging both in air and aqueous solution, and a Thermo Trace 1310 GC for permanent gas anlyses.
Our group has also just established the Analytical Biogeochemistry Laboratory, housing a Thermo iCAP 7400 DUO ICP-OES, Thermo Dionex Integrion IC, Seal AQ 300 Discrete Analyzer, and an Elementar varioMACROcube CHNS analyzer. The Analytical Biogeochemistry Laboratory is designed to conduct water, soil, and plant analyses and is open for use by the Washington University community and researchers at nearby insitutions. Please contact Prof. Catalano for information about using this new facility.
We will soon
(early 2022) receive and commissions an easyXAFS 300+ spectrometer for
X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy in the laboratory. Stay
tuned for more information as we plan for this to be available to
outside users, including by mail, at a low cost.
An array of other analytical tools are available across campus:
Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Major
equipment includes: A JEOL-8200 electron microprobe, Siemens
SRS-200 and SRS-300 sequential X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, Bruker
d8 Advance powder X-ray diffractometer, HoloLab 5000-532 and 5000-633
Raman
microprobes, and a Nicolet Nexus 670 FTIR spectrometer with ATR
attachments.
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (IMSE)
Major
equipment includes: A JEOL JEM-2100F scanning field emission
transmission electron microscope with electron energy loss spectroscopy
(EELS) capability, a JEOL JSM-7001FLV field emission scanning
electron microscope (FE-SEM) with an energy dispersive spectrometer
(EDS) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector, JEOL
JEM-2000 FX TEM with EDS analyzer, and a PHI 5000 VersaProbe II X-ray
Photoelectron Spectrometer and Scanning ESCA Microprobe.
Nano Research
and Environmental Facility (NREF)
Major
equipment includes: Perkin-Elmer Optima 7300DV
ICP-OES, Perkin-Elmer DRCII ICP-MS, Perkin-Elmer NexION 2000
ICP-MS, Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS, Shimadzu TOC analyzer with solids
module, Quantachrome Nova 2000e BET analyzer, and a CEM Mars 6 microwae
digestion system.
The group also frequently uses a number of beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.