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Badger Electrochemists. Giddings Award Symposium. Leslie J. Lyons Department of Chemistry Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa 50112. Congratulations Alanah!. Outline. Badger Electrochemists (1952 - present) Analytical Chemistry at Grinnell Teaching: Introductory and Advanced
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Badger Electrochemists Giddings Award Symposium Leslie J. Lyons Department of Chemistry Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa 50112
Outline • Badger Electrochemists (1952 - present) • Analytical Chemistry at Grinnell • Teaching: Introductory and Advanced • Research: Silicon Electrolytes for Lithium Battery Applications • Acknowledgements
Badger Electrochemistry Home This photograph, from 1978, shows the Daniels building from the northeast, on the corner of University Avenue and Mills Street. Photo courtesy of UW-Madison University Communications.
Shain Chemistry Research Tower Irving Shain Photos courtesy of UW-Madison University Communications.
Primitive cyclic voltammetry in 1963. Students in the laboratory in 1962 (L to R): R. Nicholson, B. Schwarz, B. K. Hovsepiar, and D. Polcyn Photos courtesy of Irving Shain and UW Dept. of Chemistry
NanoBucky Sarah Baker Grinnell ‘01 UW ‘06 http://hamers.chem.wisc.edu/research/nanofibers/index2.htm
Teaching Analytical Chemistry at Grinnell • CHM 130: Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry • Texts: Daniel Harris, Exploring Chemical Analysis, 3rd Ed. and Luther Erickson, Water Module Guidebook • CHM 358: Instrumental Analysis • Text: Skoog, Holler, Nieman, Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 5th Ed.
Instrumental Analysis: Electrochemistry Labs • Iodide Ion Selective Electrode • Polarography of Pb • Anodic Stripping Voltammetry • Cyclic Voltammetry • Rotating Ring Disk Voltammetry • Impedance Spectroscopy • Spectroelectrochemistry
CHM 130 Text Topics • Review of Monoprotic Acid/Base Equilibria • Titrations and Buffers • Polyprotic Acids • Activity • Spectrophotometry and Atomic Spectroscopy • Transition Metal and Coordination Chemistry • Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry • Nuclear Chemistry
Water Module Overview • 5 weeks of lab; 4 weeks of class • Question driven discussion of solubility equilibria, carbonate equilibria, atomic spectroscopy, and electrochemistry • Lab analyses of drinking water from around the country with Grinnell, Chicago, Des Moines, and bottled water providing benchmarks • Lab concludes with student poster presentations
Water Module: Class Sessions (Week 1) • Session 1. Formulating the Questions and Limiting the Exploration: Focus on Ionic Composition • Session 2. Dissolved Ionic Solids: Which ionic salts are present in typical water samples and how did they get there? • Session 3. Major species vs. minor species: Why are so many different concentration units employed to describe concentration levels of the several species present in water samples?
Water Module: Class Sessions (Week 2) • Session 4. Carbon dioxide and dissolved carbonates: Why do virtually all fresh water samples contain bicarbonate as a principal species? • Session 5. Hard water: What is meant by hard water and why does degree of hardness matter? • Session 6. Sodium and yellow flames: How can we determine how much sodium is in the water?
Water Module: Class Sessions (Week 3) • Session 7. Galvanic Cells and Ion Concentrations: How can galvanic cells be used to determine ion concentrations? • Session 8. Potentiometric Titrations: How do ion concentrations change in the course of a titration? • Session 9. Ion-Selective Electrodes and ppm Concentrations: How can we determine ion concentrations at the 1 ppm level?
Water Module: Class Sessions (Week 4) • Session 10. Conservation of Mass and Charge: Does it all add up? (including poster preparation) • Session 11. What does it all mean? What does the complete chemical analysis reveal about the source and treatment of our water samples? • Session 12. Exam
Water Module: Laboratory • L1. pH and Alkalinity by Potentiometric Titration with HCl • L2. Water Hardness (Total and Ca) by EDTA Titration • L3. Chloride by Potentiometric Titration with Silver Nitrate • L4. Sodium Determination by Atomic Emission Measurements • L5. Nitrate by Potentiometry with Ion Selective Electrode • L6. Fluoride by Potentiometry with Ion Selective Electrode • L7. Total Dissolved Solids by Electrical Conductivity
Water Module Student Data Gillis, Goodwin-Kucinsky, Patnaik, Peters, and Yohannes
In the News • R&D 100 Award, September, 2005 • Scientists craft lithium batteries • by John Potratz • Badger Herald Wednesday, October 5, 2005 • New battery stimulates damaged nerves • By ASTARA MARCH • Science Daily, Oct. 3, 2005
Linear Polysiloxane Ionic Conductivities LiTFSI Macromolecules,2001, 34, 931-934.
Cross-linked Polysiloxane Gel Electrolytes Macromolecules,2003, 36, 9176.
Liquid Siloxane Electrolytes Chem. Mater.,2006, 18, 1289.
Acknowledgements: Grinnell College Marie Mapes Douglas Schumacher Felipe Bautista Jay Jin David Clipson Kate Morcom Yanika Schneider Jacob Barrera Lori Cooke Scott Harring Megan Straughan James Taggart T. Andrew Mobley NSF-REU, NSF-MRI (2), HHMI, Grinnell College 3M Luther E. Erickson, “The Water Module Guidebook”
Acknowledgements: Organosilicon Research Center Robert West David Moline Richard Hooper Qinzheng Wang David Sherlock Ryan West Zhengcheng Zhang Nicholas A. A. Rossi Lingzhi Zhang UW University-Industry Relations Grant NIST-ATP