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Resources
Instrumentations
Synthesis
- MTI 1700C Tube Furnace
- MTI KSL-1100X-S3 Compact Box Furnace
- Vortexer
- Hot plate stirrer
- Gilson pipette set
- BRANSONIC M2800 Ultrasonic Cleaner 0.75 Gallon Tank
- Gilson Performer III SS-3 Sieve Shaker
- Thermo Scientific ST16 Centrifuge with F15-6x100y rotor
Processing
- Fisher Isotemp 28-A vacuum oven
- FlackTek planetary mixer
- Durston C110 roller
- Harrick plasma cleaner PDC-32G 115V
- Baxter DN-43 oven
- VTI Two-hand Ar-filled glovebox
- MTI hydraulic coin cell crimper
Characterizations
- IllumionOne charge photometer
- Mettler Toledo ultramicrobalance
- Ocean Optics NIR-UV-Vis spectrometer
- Redox me van der Pauw bottom mount electrochemical cell
- VMP 3-e multi-channel potentiostat
- Gamry 1010B potentiostat
- Mitutoyo linear gage
Safety Training
UNT Risk Management Services Training
Required training for Wang lab:
Online Tools
Periodic Tables
Crystallography
Crystallographic databases
- Crystallography Open Database
- The Materials Project
- Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD)
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
- Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
Download journal papers
- How to access journal papers easily off-campus
- If UNT doesn’t have the access, request it through iLLiad
Software
- Peak Fitting: Line-Profile Analysis Software (LIPRAS)
- Determination of crystal structures: GSAS-II
- Image analysis: ImageJ
- Cyclic voltammetry analysis
- EC-lab (you need to register an account with them)
- CV Analyzer (as a function of scan rate)
- CV Cyclability Analyzer
- XPS analysis: CasaXPS
- Extract data from images: digitizer
- Citation management
Research, Writing, Figures, and Presentations
Research
- Stuff most students never ask about grad school (pdf)
- How to be a graduate student
- How to have a bad career in research/academia
- Advice for new graduate students
- Advice for women in engineering
- How to succeed in graduate school
- How To choose a good scientific problem
- Kamat’s research tips
- Jack W. Baker’s research advice site
- Podzorov’s research advise
- Principles and guidelines for students, postdocs and other research personnel (pdf)
- On being a scientist (pdf)
- Five tips for making tenure (pdf)
- Making the right moves: a practical guide to scientifıc management for postdocs and new faculty (pdf)
Writing
- How to love writing a paper
- How to write a first-class paper
- Five key attributes of an effective title
- How to write an abstract
- Publications: Publish like a pro
- Ten simple rules for getting published
- Ten simple rules for getting grants
- How to make your next paper scientifically effective
- How to avoid the reviewer's axe: one editor's view
- Whitesides' group: writing a paper
- 10 tips on how we write papers
- How to write an excellent review article
- Tips for reviewing manuscripts and responding to manuscript reviews
- Dave Patterson's writing advice
Figures
- Preparing figures for publications and presentations (by Ram Seshadri)
- Which font looks best in a figure?
- Graphic design for researchers
- The Noun Project
Presentations
- TED's secret to great public speaking
- Nature Jobs: Scientific presentations cheat sheet
- Nature Jobs: A David Letterman-like countdown to the 10 biggest pitfalls in scientific presentations
- How to give a dynamic scientific presentation
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Tips for designing better research posters
- Ten simple rules for a good poster presentation
- Ten simple rules for making good oral presentations