Purchase of a Raman Spectrometer with Tunable Laser Excitation

这份来自化学研究仪器项目的合同将协助田纳西大学化学系购买激光拉曼光谱仪。一些研究依赖于激光拉曼光谱的教职员工将从该仪器的获得中受益匪浅。将利用这一工具进行的研究项目包括：(1)熔融氯铝酸盐的化学性质，(2)熔盐电化学电池的研究，(3)金刚石的化学气相沉积，(4)富勒烯及其衍生物的表征，(5)用能量还原法控制过程的化学成分测定，(6)修饰电极扩散层中物质的激光荧光。激光拉曼光谱仪提供了重要的光谱数据，可以用来获得分子结构、分子对称和分子动力学的信息。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee in the purchase of a Laser Raman spectrometer. Several faculty members whose research is dependent upon laser Raman spectroscopy will greatly benefit from the acquisition of this instrument. Research projects to be carried out with this instrument include: (1) the chemistry of molten chloroaluminate salts, (2) study of molten salt electrochemical cells, (3) the chemical vapor deposition of diamond, (4) the characterization of fullerenes and their derivatives, (5) the determination of chemical composition for process control with energy reduction, and (6) laser fluorescence of species in the diffusion layer of modified electrodes. %%% A laser Raman spectrometer provides important spectroscopic data which can be used to obtain information about molecular structure, molecular symmetry and molecular dynamics.