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EMSL is recognized as a leader in using collaboratories to facilitate the remote use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry . Through the Internet, EMSL is making these very expensive, cutting-edge technologies available to researchers and students who might otherwise find the instruments difficult or impossible to access. NMR Spectrometry Over a year ago, the EMSL Collaboratory team, in cooperation with researchers in the Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics directorate, began to develop the Virtual Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (VNMRF). VNMRF is now open for business to allow NMR spectrometer users to conduct videoconferences with EMSL researchers, run the spectrometers remotely, collaboratively analyze data, and share their notes in a Web-based electronic notebook. A modern computer, video camera, microphone, and Internet connection are all that is needed. During the last year, researchers from several universities and a national laboratory have saved considerable time and money by using VNMRF to participate in experiments remotely and to virtually extend or enhance visits to the facility. NMR spectrometry users desiring to run all or part of their experiments remotely can get started by simply noting their plans in their applications to EMSL. Education Internet access to instrumentation and researchers is bringing cutting-edge technology to the classroom. For example, undergraduate chemistry students at a small college in Washington state recently used EMSLs technology to remotely control a mass spectrometer, run spectra on unknown samples, and calculate distribution of isotopes and fragmentation patterns. Members of a sixth-grade science class, still in their Illinois classroom, manipulated a high-powered Argonne electron microscope for a close-up look at computer chips. Other User Facilities Other DOE user facilities are at Stanford University and at Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge national laboratories. |
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