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How To Guides

These guides describe use of the equipment in a Polymer Analysis Laboratory.
 

Index

  • Analytical Ultracentrifugation
  • Chromatography
  • General
  • Materials Properties
  • Microscopy
  • Recipes
  • Scattering
  • Solutions - dn/dc
  • Thermal Analysis
  • Viscosity

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General

  • Excel Trick:  Solver Template (does a linear fit the nonlinear way)  Solver Demo (fits sum of sine & cosine)
  • Laboratory Notebooks (Powerpoint Presentation)(how to keep a decent lab notebook--more than you think)
  • Survival Skills (how to graph, program, keep records, identify resistors, and other useful stuff)
  • Writing (advice from the macromolecular faculty)
  • Data Handling (Powerpoint Presentation)   
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Analytical Ultracentrifugation

  • Overview Document
  • Practice data: Velocity and Equilibrium
  • Step-by-step Instructions for:
    • Velocity Run
    • Equilibrium Run
  • Video for cell assembly
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Chromatography

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  • Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
  • Gel Permeation Chromatography with Light Scattering (GPC/LS)
    • Adobe Acrobat .pdf version
    • Practice Data
    • Astra/Dawn Manuals, etc (Password Protected)*
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Material Properties

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Whatman filter information
 

Microscopy

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Links to Microscopy Resources (Protocols, Tutorials, Vendors, Books, etc)*
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​Recipes

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Alcoholic Base Bath for Glassware Cleaning
 

Scattering

  • Multiple-angle, multiple-correlator DLS (MADLS)
  • Guinier Plot (Radius of Gyration from Light Scattering)
  • DLS Minicourse 
    • Final exam       
    • Accompanying Data File
  • Dynamic Light Scattering (Legacy Document)
    • Practice data for Laplace Inversion: Milk or Dow Polystyrene 1683
  • DLS Library*
  • DLS Alignment
  • Bock/Siano Microemulsion recipe
  • Light Scattering Intensity Measurements
  • Zimm Plots
    • Program Guide Setup
    • Guide Manual; the Zimm Plot info is in an Appendix 
    • Related J. Chem.Ed. article (Russo, Fong, Temyanko & Ricks, J.Chem.Ed. 1999, 76(11), 1534.
  • Learn about Laplace Inversion for Size Distribution (external; backup is saved on web; contact PR or RC if link is broken)
  • NEW Measuring the Size of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media Using Batch-Mode Dynamic Light Scattering
  • Malvern ZetaSizer Nano ZS
    • Instructions*
    • Manuals and Tutorials (Password Protected)**
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Solutions - dn/dc

  • Making Solutions
  • Densitometry using the Paar DMA 58 
  • Differential Refractive Index (dn/dc)   
    • Excel Spreadsheet Template
    • Brice-Phoenix Manual (PDF)
    • Brice-Phoenix appendix (PDF)
  • Abbe Zeiss refractometer
  • dn/dc tables (Password Protected)**
  • Solvent Properties*
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Thermal Analysis

 TA Manuals, etc (Password Protected)​**
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Viscosity

  • Intrinsic Viscosity
  • Using the Wells-Brookfield Viscometer (also requires instrument manual = LVTDCP.pdf)*
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