We finally pieced together all of our data to show the inconsistency between results gained from HPLC Vs UV-Vis. Professor Sturgeon is currently working on his grant proposal and plans on studying our results as soon as he finishes making his last revisions. We are planning to make another visit to the University of Iowa in the next couple of weeks to get some ESR spectra from radical products of various peroxidase reactions.
In other news, payday was yesterday. This is especially nice because I've almost become broke with the various projects that I've started over the summer (I think around 5; note to self, finish one project, then begin another). I'll write about those near the end of the summer.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
More Graphs
Well, I now get to conduct six more experiments in the next week to measure the degradation of Dichloroquinone (DCQ) with and without H2O2 at the three different pH levels of 6.2, 7.4, and 9.0.
However, thanks to Mike and Kyle, I now know how to set the UV-Vis for kinetics mode and I can tell it to take readings every 30 seconds for 4 hours. It ends up being a ton of data, but I can put it into excel and transpose it into tab delimited columns for Igor (a data compiler program we use) to read. This makes my life a heck of a lot easier and at the same time, I can compile more accurate/representative graphs.
However, thanks to Mike and Kyle, I now know how to set the UV-Vis for kinetics mode and I can tell it to take readings every 30 seconds for 4 hours. It ends up being a ton of data, but I can put it into excel and transpose it into tab delimited columns for Igor (a data compiler program we use) to read. This makes my life a heck of a lot easier and at the same time, I can compile more accurate/representative graphs.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Independence Day!
Brad is leaving this week to go down to Virginia and is leaving Blake and I here to do our research by ourselves. I thought it was a bit coincidental that just after the 4th of July weekend, during which we celebrated our freedom from British tyranny, that Blake and I are finaly going to be free from Brad's tyrannical rule.
All jokes aside, the next week is sure to be challenging; not having anyone to go to and say, "Ok, now what?".
I'm sure it'l be a learning experience for both Blake and I.
King George III has, however, already lined up three different experiments for me to do during the coming week. All of which need to be analyzed and compiled into graphs.
PS: Madison, WI was fun.
All jokes aside, the next week is sure to be challenging; not having anyone to go to and say, "Ok, now what?".
I'm sure it'l be a learning experience for both Blake and I.
King George III has, however, already lined up three different experiments for me to do during the coming week. All of which need to be analyzed and compiled into graphs.
PS: Madison, WI was fun.
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