Solid State NMR
The Department has a broad range of modern solid-state NMR instrumentation, including the joint second highest field wide-bore instrument in the UK and a wide range of probes.
The solution-state NMR facilities are located in A73/A74 Faraday Building and are used for both research and teaching.
The instruments are run in open access mode 24-7, but users must have suitable training before being allowed access to the NMR suites, so contact Dr Geoffrey Akien beforehand. Trained undergraduates can access the space by themselves from 9 am-5 pm, Monday to Friday, but must be supervised outside of these hours.
During peak hours (Monday to Friday, 8 am-6 pm) the maximum time allowed per experiment is 15 minutes, although users may have more than one experiment per sample. To maintain responsive access for others, the "Priority" ability is enabled for all users. At busy times of the year, the peak/off-peak timings may change to maximise throughput of samples.
Liquid nitrogen fills are generally carried out every Wednesday morning, but one instrument will always be available for immediate use. Liquid helium fills take place approximately every 5-6 months, and users will be advised by email when these take place, and if there are any other scheduled interruptions. A list of activity is also maintained on the Chemistry Booking System.
The regular status pages are synchronised with the live pages every five minutes, but the live ones are updated by the spectrometers as soon as something happens.
Note that the "live" direct links to the spectrometer pages will work only if you've got your credentials properly setup to access the LUNA filestore, and if you right-click, select "Copy link address", and copy and paste it into a new tab. It unfortunately won't work if you just click on the link directly, but once you've got a bookmark setup than everything should Just Work.
Also available for communal use are:
If there's something that we don't have that you think would be worthwhile for the Department, let us know and we can look into buying it in for communal use.