Dear Colleagues,

I hope all is well. I am currently preparing a proposal and will include in my budget funding to purchase CV equipment. Any words of wisdom with purchasing equipment? I will be trained by my collaborator on using the CV, but plan to bring this expertise back to Wooster. So, the equipment will be used by my research students, students enrolled in my inorganic lab, analytical labs, and possibly we could extend this to the GChem lab as well. Any guidance on this topic would be appreciated. I know Chip posted some neat slides on this topic previously.

Sibrina

Time for a post for any non-organometallic folks...(although I may not get any responses!)

We are looking at cyclic voltammograms of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries and working in a typical electrolyte, 1M LiClO₄ in propylene carbonate.  This electrolyte is hygroscopic, so we make up the solutions and store them in a glove box.