CBIC Monthly Newsletter for June 2014

June 1, 2014

Monthly Newsletter for June 2014

 
Dear CBIC Users,
 
Greetings from the CBIC! We hope that the academic school year ended smoothly for you and that your summer activities are off to a good start!
 

The Yale-Rigaku Symposium (Friday June 6th)

We are excited for our upcoming Yale Rigaku Symposium on X-ray Diffraction this Friday, June 6th! Please pre-register for the day’s events by clicking here – registration is free, and is open to everyone with an interest in x-ray diffraction. We will have Prof. Bart Kahr and Prof. Colin Nuckolls presenting as invited speakers, as well as presentations by our very own Prof. Patrick Holland and Louise Guard from Prof. Nilay Hazari’s group. 

The symposium presentations will begin at 1:00 pm in SCL 160. A complete schedule for the symposium can be found here. 

For those of you with posters, please register to give a poster presentation as part of the symposium. You will be considered for one of two poster prizes! You could win either:

$1500 travel grant from Rigaku Americas Corporation to present at the 2015 American Crystallographic Association Meeting or an upcoming Denver X-ray Conference;

-or-

Crystallography products and a cash prize from MiTeGen with a combined value of $350.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the symposium on Friday!

 

CBIC Instrument Relocations

 
As is probably clear to anyone currently using the CBIC, a number of instrument relocations are underway. The 600 MHz NMR spectrometer was moved out of CRB 100 on May 19th, but there were a few “unscheduled” steps in the process, such as a quench (sudden loss of magnet superconductivity, resulting in rapid heating/boiling of large amounts of liquid helium within the magnet) duing de-energization. The quench was apparently caused by a fault in the magnet power supply used by Agilent – a new power supply was been shipped out, but this has delayed the re-installation of the 600 MHz magnet. As of Friday, May 30th, the magnet was ramped up to and “parked” at 563 MHz. The re-installation process will continue throughout the week.  The a600a will be opened up on the NMR reservation page when it is ready for use.
 
 

New CBIC Space in KCL

Some users have asked about the new locations for the relocated instruments. Most of the instruments are moving into the basement of KCL in newly renovated space, adjacent to the x-ray instruments which have already been relocated. An overview of the planned CBIC layout can be found here.
 
 

As always, if you have any questions regarding the CBIC, please feel free to email us or stop by during office hours.

Sincerely,

CBIC Staff