Accessing CAF
Before you access CAF, you must:
- Email Professor Gunter Kuhnle or Dr Graham Luke to request enrolment. You will then receive a reply with instructions on how to download a health and safety presentation on your computer. Please include your University ID number and the date at which your stay at Reading will finish.
- Read through the online health and safety presentation which is available on Blackboard.
- Complete a short quiz which will test your understanding of the health and safety rules outlined in the presentation.
- After you have finished and passed the quiz, please contact us and confirm that you agree to follow these rules, including the non-disclosure agreement.
- Complete and sign a registration form. If you are a student, you must also obtain your supervisor’s signature on the form.
- Your access to CAF will then be activated on your University ID card.
Access to the following CAF laboratories is restricted:
- NMR
- Thermal Analysis
- Optical Spectroscopy
- X-ray diffraction
- Mass Spectrometry
- JJT (Microscopy and Mass Spectrometry)
Download health and safety information
The optical platform will be open to users with limited access. Please see instructions on the user guide.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) protocols for individual equipment:
Fluorescence Spectrophotometer SOP
FT Raman Spectrophotometer SOP
FTIR Spotlight 400 sample prep
The thermal platform will be available to users with limited access. Please see the user guide for instructions.
Sample handling for optical and thermal
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) protocols:
DSC Q2000: interpreting unexpected events and transitions