Magnetic resonance techniques are often considered complex and expensive to maintain, especially for colleges and universities. However, Bruker’s compact microESR and FT-NMR benchtop systems can be placed on a bench without requiring any infrastructure or liquid cryogens. With their low footprint, they represent a great alternative allowing undergraduate and graduate students hands-on training. In the first part of this webinar, guest speaker Judy MacInnis will shortly introduce ESR spectroscopy before sharing her experience of the successful integration of the microESR benchtop system in practical courses at Cape Breton University (Sydney, NS). Afterwards Barbara Czarniecki will introduce the Fourier EduLab and showcase that Bruker’s 80 MHz cryogen-free FT-NMR benchtop system is the perfect teaching tool for NMR spectroscopy.
In this webinar we will introduce both benchtop systems, the microESR and the Fourier 80, and highlight their potential as teaching tools. Moreover, we will showcase examples of our teaching package that includes suggested experiments and spectra to support the learning experience.
The main audience for this webinar is those involved in academic teachings and laboratory instruction. In particular, this webinar is also of interest to chemistry and biochemistry professors, and scientists already using or wanting to use EPR and/ or NMR. The webinar will be useful for physics professors, university department chairs, post docs, and graduate students.
Judy MacInnis
Senior Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry and a transmission electron microscope technician at Cape Breton University (Sydney, NS)