Instrumentation for Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Enhancement

化学(12)这个项目正在改善我们的学生在高分子化学方面的实验室体验。这是通过引入GPC，加上紫外线和光散射探测器以及附带的软件来实现的。实验改编自北爱荷华州大学的一个项目和教育文献。这些仪器使学生能够准确地确定合成和/或商用聚合物的准确的大分子表征，例如它们的分子量、分子量分布和分子尺寸。其结果是，我们正在升级和加强一门本科聚合物课程的实验室计划，这门课程已经开设了26年。众所周知，大约75%的化学专业学生会在职业生涯中的某个时候在化工行业工作，而且这些化学公司中的绝大多数都生产聚合物，其中许多都是专门生产聚合物的，因此，这门特殊的课程及其实验室经验对通过我们系的化学专业学生的教育是不可或缺的。多年来，这已被证明是一门非常受欢迎的课程，我们大多数化学专业的学生都选修了这门课程。

Chemistry (12)This project is improving the laboratory experience for our students in The Chemistry of HighPolymers. This is being accomplished by the introduction of a GPC, coupled with UV and light-scattering detectors, with attendant software. Experiments are being adapted from a program at the University of Northern Iowa and from the educational literature. These instruments allow students to accurately determine synthetic and/or commercial polymer's accurate macromolecular characterizations, such as their molecular weights, molecular weight distributions and molecular size. The result is that we are upgrading and enhancing the laboratory program for an undergraduate polymers course that has been offered for the last 26 years. Since it is a well-known fact that about 75% of all chemistry majors will work in the chemical industry at some time in their careers, and that a vast majority of those chemical companies manufacture polymers, many exclusively so, this particular course and its laboratory experience are integral to the education of chemistry majors who pass through our department. It has proven to be a very popular course over the years we have offered it, and most all our chemistry majors take it.