Acquisition of an Automated Powder X-Ray Diffraction System

9708272 Guidotti这笔赠款提供70 295美元，作为购置最先进的粉末X射线衍射仪的一半费用，该衍射仪将安装在缅因州大学奥罗诺校区新建的全球科学大楼内。此次收购将使这些PI继续其在岩石学矿物学方面的国际公认的研究计划，包括研究变质岩和硼硅酸盐中固溶体的相平衡。对未知物的结构性质和矿物学鉴定的表征对这些研究人员来说是基本的，在缅因州大学建立一个现代化的X射线衍射仪设施将使地质科学系以及物理系和工程系的其他一些教员受益。***

9708272 Guidotti This grant provides $70,295 as one-half support of the costs of acquiring a state-of-the-art powder X-ray diffractometer (XRD) that will be housed in a newly constructed Global Sciences building on the Orono campus of the University of Maine. This acquisition will allow these PI's to continue their internationally recognized research programs in petrologic mineralogy including studies of the phase equilibria of solid solutions in metamorphic rocks and borosilicates. The characterization of both structural properties and mineralogic identification of unknowns is fundamental to these researchers and the establishment of a modern XRD facility at the University of Maine will benefit a number of other faculty both within the Department of Geological Sciences and within the departments of Physics and Engineering. ***