Instrumental equipment

Head:

Miroslava Novotná, MSc, PhD.

Email:

Miroslava.Novotna@vscht.cz

Instrumental equipment


  • FTIR spectrometer NICOLET 740, workstation DSP 680, spectral range:
    NIR (11.500 - 3.800 cm-1), detector InSb, beamspliter quartz;
    MIR (4.000 - 400 cm-1) detector TGS, beamspliter KBr;
    FIR (600 - 50 cm-1), detector KBr, beamspliter Mylar;
    Resolution: max. 0,1 cm-1,

  • FTIR spectrometer BRUKER IFS 66v with microscope
    Spectral range:
    NIR (14500 - 3800 cm-1), detector Ge diode, beamspliter quartz;
    MIR (4.000 - 400 cm-1), detector DLATGS, beamspliter KBr;
    FIR (600 - 20 cm-1), detector DLATGS(FIR), beamspliter mylar; vacuum optics,
    Resolution: max. 0,1 cm-1
    Microscope: Hyperion 2000, detector MCT A, transmitting measurements and reflecting measurements, ATR objective ZnSe, XY mapping


  • IR accessories:
    Horizontal ATR (ZnSe),
    Difuse reflectance accessory,
    Specular reflectance "Grazing angle" accessory,
    Diamond cell,


  • RAMAN spectrometer LABRAM HR - high resolution Micro Raman system
    Spectral range: 100 - 4000 cm-1
    Resolution: grating 1800 scratches per mm - at 550 nm 1 cm-1; at 800 nm 0,4 cm-1
    Lens: 10x, 20x, 50x, 100x, macro lens
    Exitation laser: 532 nm, 785 nm
    Confocal optics
    XY mapping

    • Examples of application of Raman a infrared spectroscopy:

    Material chemistry

  • study of composition and degradation of materials

  • study of microsamples in the diamond anvil cell

  • instrumentation allows the collection of infrared spectra of materials at low-concentration levels

  • carbon / carbon composites

  • corrosion products

  • structural study of nanocomposites


    • Environmental analysis

  • fly ash composition

  • investigation of soil humic substances from different environments, ion exchange properties

  • study of natural sorbents (e.g. zeolites, oxihumolites)

  • organic and anorganic matter in soils (minerals)

  • determination of polar and non-polar organic samples in natural and waste water and soils


    • Historical objects

  • analytical characterisation of pigments and binders in historical and archaeological objects

  • classication of document papers and inks


    • Food chemistry

  • analytical of edible oils - e.g. determining cis and trans isomers, oxidation

  • an infrared and raman investigation of chitin and chitosan

  • determination of chemical composition of honey, chocolate, fats, juices etc.

  • spectroscopic determination of the structure of pectins


    • Chemistry of coal and fuels

  • changes in the structure of coals of different rank, oxidation, pyrolysis etc

  • characterisation of coal degradation products - tars, pitch, phenol concentrates etc.

  • coal oxidation

  • spectroscopy study of composition and degradation of oils


    • Pharmaceutical analysis

  • drugs

  • degradation of products

  • polymorphisms