Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Yarger Group Research & Facilities:
The Yarger Research Group is in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Arizona State University. Our research focus is on structural and dynamic elucidation of amorphous materials, polyamorphism, nanoparticles, soft matter materials and biopolymers. Applications of our current research on amorphous materials include the areas of battery materials, fuel cells, artificial tendons, tempered glass, optical fibers, membrane transport and plague related diseases (chronic wasting disease and amyloid diseases). Research laboratories are located in the Physical Sciences (PS) building and the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building #1 (ISTB1). Scientific instrumentation is currently in the following labs: (i) PS-C258 - differential scanning calorimeters (DSC); TGA; DMA and computer servers; (ii) PS-C50 - glovebox; electrochemistry; synthesis lab; furnaces; vacuum lines; hoods; uv/vis; hplc; (iii) PS-C52 - Brillouin imaging; Raman spectroscopy; optical lab; (iv) PS-C45 laser fluorescence, diamond anvil cells; (v) PS-C37 - Raman spectrometer; (vi) ISTB1 - liquid/solid state Varian 800 MHz NMR spectrometer; 500 MHz Varian liquid-state NMR; solid-state wide-bore Varian 400 MHz NMR; liquid/solid-state narrow-bore Varian 400 MHz NMR; walk-up Varian 300 MHz NMR; solid-state wide-bore Chemagnetics 300 MHz NMR; student laboratory Varian 200 MHz NMR. The group offices are in PS Rms B254 & C234 and J.L. Yarger's office is in Physical Sciences Rm 255/251. For more information about the departmental research facilities click here.
Current Research Projects:
| * NMR of Nanoparticles & Nanocomposites. | * Polyamorphic Materials |
| * Brillouin Imaging & Spectroscopy | * Diamond Anvil Cell Calorimetry |
| * NMR and MRI of Soft Matter Materials. | * Biopolymers (Spider Silks, CWD) |
| * Electrochemical NMR (eNMR) | * Quantum Dot Optical Pumping & ODNMR |
| * Quantum Computation | * High-Pressure Materials |
| * Supercooled Liquids & Glasses | * Battery & Fuel Cell Materials |
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New 800 MHz NMR
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Chemistry & Biochemistry Class Websites:
| * Gen. Chem. (Chem 113) | * Elem. Phys. Chem. (Chem 341) | * Pchem Lab (Chem 343) |
| * Pchem Sem. (Chem 501) | * Stat. Mech (Chem 550) | * Thermo. (Chem 541) |
| * Quantum (Chem 545) | * NMR Spect. (Chem 598) | * Intro. to Unix |
** Spring 2007 - J.L. Yarger is Teaching Chem 598 (Methods in Magnetic Resonance).
