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CV Boot Camp 2019

CV Boot Camp 2019

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The first Cyclic Voltammetry Boot Camp that was started back in 2019 was a 2-day workshop designed to provide participants with the practical knowledge necessary to carry out robust cyclic voltammetry measurements in their independent research. The workshop includes both lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions.

Topics Covered
Cyclic Voltammetry, Introduction to Electrochemistry, Rotating Disk Voltammetry (rde), Ultramicroelectrodes
Workshop Team
Alex Peroff, PhD
Pine Research Instrumentation
Electrochemical Sales Scientist

Alex Peroff joined the Pine Research team as an Electroanalytical Scientist in 2016. Alex came to Pine Research after earning his Ph.D. at Northwestern University under the direction of Richard Van Duyne and Eric Weitz. Following his doctorate, Alex completed a post-doctoral position at SUNY Albany. Alex resides in the Durham, North Carolina area.

Jeffrey Dick, PhD
Purdue University
Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor
When I was in third grade, we students were asked to draw a picture of what we wanted to be when we grew up. After mulling it over for a few seconds, I drew a picture of an explorer: In one hand, I held a rope (to tame wild animals) and in the other, a sharp machete (I made sure to put a little star along the edge of the machete to show its sharpness). On my head was an Indiana Jones hat, and the background was a lush and green rainforest, teeming with life. This rainforest was rife with discovery – I imagined a frontier of animals and plants not yet discovered in all of human history.

Twenty some odd years later, things haven’t changed that much, and I daresay I’ve achieved my third grade goal. I am an explorer: In one hand, I hold an expensive set of analytical and statistical tools (to tame new truths of nature and increase experimental reproducibility) and in the other, a sharp nanoelectrode. On my head is a pair of goggles, and the background is a laboratory equipped with the tools to creatively pursue new knowledge. The nanoscale is rife with discovery, a frontier where you can be the first person in all of human history to make an observation. I believe that frontier is where disciplines meet, particularly electrochemistry and biology.

Jillian Dempsey, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor

Jillian Lee Dempsey is an American inorganic chemist and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, Research in the Dempsey group aims to address challenges associated with developing efficient solar energy conversion processes. We are particularly interested in charge transfer processes associated with solar fuel production, including proton-coupled electron transfer reactions and electron transfer across interfaces. Our research program bridges molecular and materials chemistry and relies heavily on methods of physical inorganic chemistry, including transient absorption spectroscopy and electrochemistry.

Schedule
13 June 2019
Time
Location
Event
Details
Team Lead(s)
09:00
Kenan B229
Lecture 1: Fundamentals of Electrochemistry

Introduction to electrochemistry, Nernst equation, electrochemical cell, electrodes, etc

Jillian Dempsey
10:30
Kenan B229
Lecture 2: Practical Aspects of Electrochemistry

Practical Aspects of electrochemistry involve common pitfalls as well as performing things like polishing working electrodes, maintaining reference electrodes, degassing solutions, and determining whether there is contamination.

Jeffrey Dick
12:00
Kenan B229
Lunch
13:00
Morehead 304
Laboratory 1: Cyclic Voltammetry of Ferrocene

Kathleen Nevins provides a safety lecture prior to the lab starting. Students perform cyclic voltammetry experiments of ferrocene

Kathleen Nevins
17:00
Day 1 concludes

Homework: Finish working up data from Lab 1, prep for Lab 3

14 June 2019
Time
Location
Event
Details
Team Lead(s)
09:00
Kenan B229
Lecture 3: Electrochemical and Chemical Reversibility and Coupled Reactions

Lecture of chemical reversibility and coupled chemical reactions.

Jillian Dempsey
09:45
Morehead 304
Laboratory 2: 6 stations to rotate through as groups of 3

This is the original trouble shooting stations lab

11:45
Kenan B229
Lunch
13:00
Kenan B229
Lecture 4: Rotating Disk Electrochemistry (RDE), Rotating Ring-Disk Electrochemistry (RRDE), and Ultramicroelectrodes

Jeffrey talks about the theory and us of RDE/RRDE as well as ultramicroelectrodes

Jeffrey Dick
14:00
Morehead 304
Laboratory 3

Students choose between 3 different labs to pick from. 1) Coupled Chemical Reactions (Jillian's lab), 2) Rotating Disk Voltammetry (Pine Research lab), and 3) Ultramicroelectrodes (Jeffrey's lab)

17:00
CV boot camp concludes
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