Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Liquid Scintillation System for Studies of Transport Across Skin and Through Soils

该提案要求为液体闪烁（LS） 系统提供新的和重要的技术能力， 主要研究者（PI）的研究项目。 专业从事通过膜和多孔介质的传质 媒体，首席研究员目前正在关注她 在两个方面的研究工作：（1）经皮吸收 溶质，以及（2）包气带的就地修复技术 带土壤。 测量浓度的能力 放射性标记的化合物将大大扩展科学 这两个项目都可以研究。 虽然 LS计数是必不可少的研究工作描述 在这里，在一个给定的研究项目上使用的程度使得 作为专门文书购买的理由 单一的研究提案很难。 因此 拟议的文书将提供给整个校园 使用. 目前，在科罗拉多没有LS计数 矿业学院（CSM）。 拟议的一次总付系统将提供 许多重要的新研究机会，为其他 CSM的研究人员。 与许多其他分析 仪器，LS能力的需求肯定会增长 一旦仪器在CSM校园可用，

This proposal requests funding for a liquid scintillation (LS) system to provide new and important technical capabilities in the principal investigator's (PI's) research programs. Specializing in mass transfer through membranes and porous media, the principal investigator is currently focusing her research efforts in two areas: (1) percutaneous absorption of solutes, and (2) in-place remediation technologies for vadose zone soils. The ability to measure concentrations of radiolabelled compounds will greatly expand the scientific issues which can be studied in these two programs. Although LS counting is essential to the research endeavors described here, the extent of use on a given research project makes justification of its purchase as dedicated instrument on single research proposal difficult. Consequently, the proposed instrument will be made available for campus wide use. Presently LS counting is not available at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). The proposed LS system will provide many important new research opportunities for other researchers at CSM. As with many other analytical instruments, the demands LS capabilities certainly will grow once an instrument is available on the CSM campus.