Who may use the facilities:
The Analytical Spectroscopy Laboratory is open for use by any of the research groups in The Ohio State University for legitimate academic research.
Because it is a part of the Chemistry Department, department personnel will often receive priority in scheduling and assistance.
Users from outside the university may request use of the facilities on an occasional basis, as time and scheduling permit. Contact the laboratory manager for further details.
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Training policies and procedures:
Students and Post Doctoral researchers should contact the manager of the laboratory to schedule training. Because these instruments are expensive, and because several research groups share their use, they must be used carefully. Also, researchers should want to obtain the best and most useful data possible to enhance the quality of their theses and publications. Therefore the training is intended to help the researchers understand what the instrument is measuring, and how to make decisions which provide the best possible data.
Some new users may want to observe other members of their research groups operate the instruments as a part of their training. This is allowed and encouraged, because it acquaints the new user with the particulars of how that group typically uses the instrument. But before new users actually operate the instrument alone, they need to have the appropriate training sessions with the lab manager to make sure the various necessary details have been explained.
If you want to be trained and approved for access to one of these instruments, be sure to contact me far enough ahead of your planned experiments, so that we can plan agreeable schedules, and avoid delay.
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Materials which the research groups must provide:
Research groups are expected to purchase and maintain their own sample cells, and other pieces of equipment which come in contact with the samples. This is intended to reduce cross contamination, and to minimize disruption when cells are lost or broken. The group members are responsible for storing these cells in a secure place which is known and accessible to all group members who wish to use them.
Also, other materials and supplies which are specific to a research groups' experiment may also need to be supplied by that group. The most common example of this would be cryogens for sample cooling, if the cryogens are not routinely used for most uses on the instrument.
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How to reserve time on the instruments:
A calendar has been placed by each instrument. Any user who wishes to reserve a block of time on that instrument should do so on that calendar. If you decide to cancel your slot, be sure to cross out your reservation as soon as you can. If you show up to use an instrument without a reservation, then you take your chances that someone else may already be using it.
Some of the heavily used instruments shall have reservations maintained with the Chemistry Department reservation software.
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How to pay for instrument use:
Use of instruments will be billed bi-monthly (six times per year).
Research groups inside chemistry will be billed through the chemistry accounting office. I must be provided with the Organization/Fund/OSURF Project numbers.
Research groups outside chemistry and inside OSU should provide a 100W form with the Department; Initiated by; E-mail; Authorized Signature; Organization-Fund-Project-Program sections filled in. Leave the TO: section blank.
Users outside OSU should submit a standard purchase order from your institution. Our Accounts Payable office will invoice your institution.
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Laboratory Course use of instruments:
From time to time, chemistry lab courses will want to use one of the ASL instruments. This is expected, and is a useful augmentation to the learning experience of OSU students.
The Teaching Assistants for the lab must be familiar with the operation of the instrument. If the TA already uses the instrument for thesis research, there probably won't be much more to do than to make sure that the particular experiment will work as expected. If the TA('s) has no experience on this instrument, (or has not used it for a long time), then the TA('s) should be trained by the ASL manager before the instrument is used for the lab course. A trained TA must be present with the registered lab students as they perform the measurements.
Contact the ASL manager before the start of the quarter so that arrangements and needed training happen before the scheduled experiment.
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