MRI: Acquisition of a Confocal Raman Microscope to Advance Research and Undergraduate Teaching in Southern Colorado

该奖项由主要研究仪器计划支持。 科罗拉多学院正在收购一个共焦拉曼显微光谱仪系统，以支持来自科罗拉多学院的Eli Faithkrug教授和同事Neena Grover、阿曼达Bowman、Adam Light和Donald克莱顿的研究。 这种微型光谱仪允许在多晶型物结晶和双极电化学，固态离子和纳米层压，核酸金属结合，冷等离子体物理，体内传感器，表面化学，病毒学和自旋交叉行为等各种领域的研究。 一般来说，拉曼光谱显微镜是探测化学反应和表面化学的有力工具。 拉曼光谱学是基于化学物质的电子和振动特性对光的散射，而光谱显微镜利用这些光散射特性对非常广泛的化学样品进行显微镜检查。授予拉曼显微光谱仪的目的是加强各级的研究和教育。它是唯一的仪器这种类型的南科罗拉多，和广泛的机构，服务本科生和代表性不足的学生参与研究和教学计划，涉及仪器。 该拉曼显微光谱仪特别为多相催化、地球化学、晶体生长、等离子体物理学、结构生物学、生物物理学、等离子体和薄膜等项目提供化学分析。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is supported by the Major Research Instrumentation program. Colorado College is acquiring a confocal Raman microspectrometer system to support the research of Professor Eli Fahrenkrug and colleagues Neena Grover, Amanda Bowman, Adam Light and Donald Clayton from Colorado College. This microspectrometer allows research in a variety of fields such as polymorph crystallization and bipolar electrochemistry, solid-state ionics and nanolaminates, nucleic acid metal binding, cold plasma physics, in-vivo sensors, surface chemistry, virology, and spin-crossover behavior. In general, Raman spectromicroscopy is a powerful tool to probe chemical reactions and the chemistry of surfaces. Raman spectroscopy is based on the scattering of light by chemical species based on their electronic and vibrational properties, and spectromicroscopy takes advantage of these light scattering properties to perform microscopy on a very wide range of chemical samples.The award of the Raman microspectrometer is aimed at enhancing research and education at all levels. It is the only instrument of this type in Southern Colorado, and a wide range of institutions that serve undergraduate and underrepresented students are participants in research and teaching plans involving the instrument. The Raman microspectrometer particularly provides chemical analysis to projects spanning heterogenous catalysis, geochemistry, crystal growth, plasma physics, structural biology, biophysics, plasmonics, and thin films.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.