As I wrote about in an earlier post, the focus of my summer research is to determine a natural source of hydrated electrons that will generate hydrogen in a photocatalytic system. Thus, I will be performing many photochemistry experiments. This week I started to learn this procedure and ran a couple of experiments with materials […]

This week was dedicated to gathering data on an electrocatalyst we had recently synthesized. I learned how to use FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) to take scans of the iron complex. First, I ran a background scan of potassium bromide (KBr), which we use as a carrier for the sample. Then, I ran a sample […]