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Welcome to the Bowers research group site, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida! Our group specializes in ultra-high sensitivity nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance on the nanoscale. We employ solid-state NMR to new, technologically important materials, including semiconductor nanostructures, nanotubes, high-tech polymers, and phospholipid bilayer membranes. We design and interpret experiments using density matrix/operator theory, statistical thermodynamics, and numerical simulations, with the goal to discover and elucidate new or anomalous phenomena.
Our laboratory and offices are located in the beautiful New Physics Building.
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Click here to view a poster summarizing the research activities in our group (2.3 MB Acrobat PDF file).
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We specialize in methods for ultra-high sensitivity nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance on the nanoscale. We employ solid-state NMR to new, technologically important materials. We employ density matrix/operator theory, statistical mechanics, and numerical simulations to elucidate new or anomalous phenomena.
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Click here to view a poster summarizing the research activities in our group (2.3 MB Acrobat PDF file). For more detailed description of recent research progress, see our publications which are listed on the publications tab above.
There are always openings in our group for highly motivated graduate students, particularly in (but not necessarily limited to) the areas of physical and analytical chemistry. We welcome undergraduate students interested in pursuing an honors thesis or who would just like to experience the excitement of advanced research! Our group meetings are held each Friday at 9:45am in the lab (B122, New Physics Building). Please contact me (Russ Bowers) at russ@ufl.edu for more information or to schedule a lab tour!
Thanks for visiting our site!
Selected Peer Reviewed Publications (click for abstract and URL)
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Spring 2009: CHM4411 (section 5034), Physical Chemistry I
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Fall 2008: CHM6430, Thermodynamics
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Spring 2008: CHM6461, Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
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Spring 2007: CHM4412, Physical Chemistry II: Quantum and Spectroscopy |
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Fall 2006: CHM4411L, Physical Chemistry I: Thermo and Kinetics |
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Prof. Russ Bowers
email: russ@ufl.edu
office: New Physics Building (NPB) 2346
lab: New Physics Building (NPB) B122
office phone: (352) 846-0839
lab phone: (352) 392-0501
fax: 352-392-0524
Shipping Address
B100 New Physics Building
P.O. Box 118440
Corner of Museum Road and Gale Lemerand Drive
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8440
UF Chemistry Department
Center for Condensed Matter Sciences
Physical Chemistry Division Seminar Schedule
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Margaret Eastman's Deuterium Fitting Programs
cygwin (unix) shell and programming environment for windows xp and vista.
XEMAT 2009
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Clifford Russell Bowers Associate Professor Chemistry Department University of Florida, Gainesville email: russ@ufl.edu 2346 New Physics Building |
Education
Ph.D., 1991 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Advisor: Daniel P. Weitekamp. Thesis: "Parahydrogen and Synthesis Allows Dramatically Enhanced Nuclear Alignment" (see “Sensitivity Enhancement Utilizing Parahydrogen,” in Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Supplementary Volume, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2002), pp. 750-770 ).
B.A. Chemistry, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1981-1985, Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry.
Positions Held
2000-present. Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville.
1994-2000. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville.1992-1993. Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley. Development of optically pumped Xenon-129 NMR Methods. Advisor: Alex Pines.
1990-1991. NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2nd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Photon-alkali metal atom interactions in optically detected magnetic resonance. Advisor: Michael Mehring.
1985-1990. Graduate Research Assistant, Chemistry Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Advisor: Daniel P. Weitekamp.
Summer 1983, 1984. Undergraduate Researcher, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Conditional Entropy Analysis of Genetic Information. Advisor: Dudley R. Herschbach.
Affiliations and Activities
Division of Physical Chemistry, University of Florida.
Materials Research Socieity.
Member, American Physical Society and American Chemical Societies.
Center of Interdisciplinary Magnetic Resonance, National High Magnetic Field Lab.
Executive Committee, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, University of Florida.
Center for Chemical Physics, University of Florida.
Chair, Committee on Instruction, UF Chemistry Department.
Physical Chemistry Division Seminar Coordinator, Fall 2007,2006,2005.
bruk2igor.exe is a win32 console application for batch conversion of Bruker Xwinnmr 1r binary spectrum files (SGI Irix, little endian to big endian conversion) to any one of three output formats : Igor Pro text files, DFP input files or 2-column text files. Here is the source code: bruk2igor.c. Please contact us about any problems or offer suggestions.
readme file for bruk2igor.exe. This program reads a list of bruker "1r" files to be converted. The list can be created using the unix "find command". For example,
find wag21d-rt -name "1r" > wag21d-rt/list.txt
ifid.exe is for bulk conversion of Bruker fids into ascii text files. Here is the source code: ifid.c. This program reads a list of bruker "fid" files to be converted. The list can be created using the unix "find command". For example,
find wag21d-rt -name "fid" > wag21d-rt/list.txt
would create a file named "list.txt" containing a list of "fid" files in the target directory, e.g. wag21d-rt. If necessary, the program converts from little endian to big endian format after reading the binary "fid" file suitable for intel x86 processors. The program reads the acqus files to obtain the dwell time. ifid.exe should be executed in the same folder as the list.txt file (without any command line argument), or alternatively, folder containing the "list.txt" can be specified as a command line argument.
mathnmrv2.0.nb is a Mathematica notebook file containing a collection of modules for NMR signal processing. The routines were specifically designed for interpolation, left shifting, phasing, and fourier transformation of Bruker fids. An example of data processing (deuterium quadrupole echo signals) is given here.
dfp2igor (source code: dfp2igor.c) is a utility program for converting the DFP output files into stacked spectra in Igor Pro text files. This program is useful If you are manually processing DFP output spectra with Igor Pro.