Facilities

Resources within Fluorinated Materials Group

Air-free synthetic chemistry

          
One N2 filled MBraun glovebox (O2<1 ppm, H2O<1ppm);  Seven Schlenk lines (4 for wet synthetic chemistries inside fume hood and 3 for high vacuum operation)
 
Electrochemistry characterization lab
This lab equipped with an Argon filled MBraun glovebox (O2<1 ppm, H2O<1ppm) with five electrical feedthroughs for electrochemical testing inside the glovebox. Four PAR 273A/273 potentiostat/galvanostat are located both left and right of the glovebox and one Autolab PGSTAT 302 potentiostat/galvanostat is located far right from the glovebox, behind the PAR 273A rack. All of them can be used the same time for electrochemistry testing inside the glovebox.  Also on the very left, there is  a Faradic cage, another PAR 273, a PINE RRDE system used by Prof. Koppang for teaching and aqueous solution electrochemistry. Very far left in the picture is one of the fume hoods for air sensitive chemistry with high vacuum Shelenk line inside.
From left: PINE RRDE system, two PAR 273A in an instrument rack, MBruan glovebox, PAR 273 and PAR 273A in an instrument rack, Schlenk line for electrochemistry in the fume hood. 
All four PAR 273 and 273A potentiostats/galvanostats connected to the Argon glovebox.

        
Left: Autolab PGSTAT 302N potentiostat/galvanostat connected to the N2 glovebox. It is capable for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), ultra-fast scan
(>250 kV/s), fA current detection, and bipotentiostat function to control the RRDE experiment. Right: Autolab PGSTAT 302 potentiostat/galvanostat connected to the Argon glovebox.

    

 Another PINE RRDE electrochemistry system (left) and an analog PAR 173/175/179 electrochemistry system (right).
 
           Bipotentiostat (analog system)
           Spectroelectrochemical cells (UV-vis-NIR and FTIR)

New Arbin 32 channels battery testing system with Gramy EIS capability integrated with a MBruan glovebox for lithium battery assemble and testing (installed Spring 2018). 

Time-resolved spectroscopy

               ThermoElectron 8700 nanosecond time resolved FTIR spectrometer

Solar cell and OFET assemble and testing         

  Brewer Science® Cee® 200CBX precision coat-bake system (computer-controlled) and Denton Vacuum Desk V thin film deposition system.
 
  IPCE testing system for organic solar cells (OSCs) and DSSCs (Newport Corporation) and I-V testing system for OSCs and OLEDs to measure efficiency
 
 
Computer-controlled Agilent 6655A DC power supply and 34410A multimeters; Computer-controlled OFET testing system: Keithley 2612B SourceMeter SMU Instrument, 2-Channels, (100fA, 200V, 1.5A DC/10A Pulse) with built in OFET testing program.
 
Solid state materials processing
 
Tube furnace with Schlenk line

Resources within USD Chemistry Department

NMR spectrometers

Bruker AVANCE III HDTM 400 NMR SPECTROMETER with a SmartProbeTM (BBFO) liquid probe and a broad band solid probe.
Varian Mercury 200 MHz broad band NMR spectrometer.
                   
               Link to NMR reservation website.
 
               Simplified NMR operation procedures.

Mass spectrometers

               2 GC-MS units, one LC-MS unit, one QTOF-MS unit.

XRD  structural analysis

               Link to Brukersingle crystal x-ray diffractometer reservation website.

               Rigaku powder x-ray diffractometer

Electronic spectrometers

               UV-visible-NIR (Cary 5000), Fluorescence

Sample Morphology Study

          Transmission electron microscopy (TEM): FEI – Technai G2 Spirit Twin

           Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with EDX function,  installed May 2015

            Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) – Pacific Nanotechnology

Resources within the University of South Dakota

Computational chemistry

               Direct access to USD  hpc cluster computer with GAMESS, GAUSSIAN, GaussView, NWCHEM, and VASP softwares.