Liquids Reflectometer
LIQREF | BL-4B | SNS
The LR has a small dedicated 100 ft2 wet laboratory for sample preparation. Users are asked to perform the following:
- Take the laboratory safety training. The training is a short lesson of the general rules and information related to our laboratory. It is completed during instrument specific training conducted at the beam line at the start of your experiment.
- Plan what type of equipment and supplies you will need. Talk to your local contact and/or Candice Halbert (ceh@ornl.gov) to help prepare the laboratory for your experiment.
Available Equipment
- Fume Hood
- Cabinets for flammable materials and acids (below fume hood)
- Refrigerator and freezer (4 °C and -22 °C)
- Deionized high-purity (18 mega-ohm) water systems
- 5.7 L ultrasonic cleaner
- Mettler Toledo balance (0.0001 g to 1000 g)
- Single-wafer spin coat processor
- Vortex mixers and hotplate/stirrer
- Vacuum oven (30 torr base pressure; RT to 200 °C)
- Laminar flow hood
- Microscope (3x viewing scope)
- pH meter
Safety Rules
All of the usual precautions for work with chemicals apply in the sample preparation laboratory. Some additional rules are necessary because it is a multi-user laboratory. Keep in mind that although your own work might not require certain precautions, other users could be working with hazards not obvious to you. Follow the guidelines listed in the Sample Preparation Laboratory at the Liquids Reflectometer Training Document.
Support Labs
SNS Soft Matter Lab: https://neutrons.ornl.gov/lab/soft-matter
SNS Thin Films Lab: https://neutrons.ornl.gov/lab/thin-films
CNMS Support Labs: https://www.ornl.gov/content/cnms-capability-list
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