Facilities in our lab

We have a laboratory for routine experiments in aqueous geochemistry that includes two constant temperature rooms, a fume hood, controlled-atmosphere glove box, centrifuges, MilliQ water system and analytical balances. Instrumental/analytical facilities include:

• Siemens D-500 X-ray diffractometer
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometry
• Voltammetry with Hg and Pt electrodes
• Potentiometry with autotitration system at constant T

Outside research facilities

Much of our work uses synchotron radiation for X-ray spectroscopy. We use several light sources:

• Advanced light source
• Swiss light source
• Diamond light source

Computational Capabilities

Quantum mechanical modelling of aqueoues solutions and mineral surfaces is done using several standard codes:

• Car-Parrinello Ab Initio Code (CPMD)
• Amsterdam Density Functional Code

Thermodynamic modelling ("Geomechanical Modelling") is done using:

• PHREEQC