Science Shop Projects - Chemistry
The photos below show some of the recent equipment repairs and faculty projects that have been performed in the Science Shop by Brian Berg. Senior research projects are also developed and created with his guidance.
Chemistry Projects
Vacuum pump rebuilt for GC/Mass-spectrometer. Inset image shows the insides of the pump.
Removed four unused storage drawers from this workbench; fabricated and installed four retractable work surfaces in the General Chemistry Lab.
Brian assembled this photo gallery of Chemistry students who wrote an Honor's Thesis
Replaced and repaired power cords as necessary on General Chemistry Lab’s hot plates. Installed Insultherm fiberglass insulation onto each cord to prevent the cord from melting, reducing the risk of electric shock or fire
Protective covers made from chemical resistant PVC to cover laboratory gas supply valves and to improve bench top storage
Replaced melted power cord with a new cord and protected it with Insultherm high temperature fiberglass sleeving
Built two ergonomic foot rests to be used with the bench height work tables
Small wooden stand built for a vacuum pump. This allows the pump to be relocated from inside the fume hood, which frees up valuable space in the hood for more important instruments
Boring an 80mm hole in a large aluminum block to serve as a heating block for Dr. Patrick Lutz’s Sublimation Apparatus
Heating block in use with Sublimation Apparatus. This heating block was fabricated for Dr. Patrick Lutz, who will be using it for a project in collaboration with a colleague at Oberlin College. It will also be used in the future for student research
Mica pellet slide mount for FTIR microscope, which holds the pellet at a specific angle. This slide mount was built to facilitate a collaboration between Dr. Hill and two professors from Clarkson, which led to a journal publication. A similar flat slide mount was also fabricated
David Bain '19 uses the digital readout to center his workpiece in the milling machine. He is making a “T-Jump cell”, a mount to hold a cuvette in the spectrofluorometer
This is David's mount ready to install in the spectrofluorometer
Pellet mount, illuminated by Xenon lamp, made in shop for holding thin film samples in the spectrofluorometer
Pellet mount on its stand shown with laser ready to install in fluorometer
Alissa Stone '19 shown holding pellet mount after installing a sample