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.

New Physics Building

Click here to view a poster summarizing the research activities in our group (2.3 MB Acrobat PDF file).

	office	phone	alt phone	email
Russ Bowers Associate Professor	NPB 2346	352 846-0839	352 392-0501	russ@ufl.edu
Chi-Yuan Cheng	NPB B176	352 846-3106	352 392-0501	cheng@chem.ufl.edu
Caroline Pointer-Keenan	NPB B176	352 846-3106	352 392-0501	cpk@chem.ufl.edu
Yuying Wei	CRB309 (Wagener group) NPB B122	352 392-2000	352 392-0501	yywei@ufl.edu

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.

Materials Diffusion and molecular exchange dynamics in nanotubes Novel quantum states in semiconductor nanostructures Segmental dynamics and diffusion in branched polyethylenes Phospholipid bilayer membranes and vesicles

NMR sensitivity enhancement methods Parahydrogen induced polarization Dynamic nuclear polarization Optical Overhauser effect Spin exchange optical pumping Electric current induced polarization Electrical detection of ESR and NMR

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)

Spring 2008: CHM6461, Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics Prof. Russ Bowers, 2346 NPB, email: russ@ufl.edu Meets MW 6-7th period (12:50 – 2:15), QTP conference room office hours: MW 2:15-3:15am, Friday (11-12am lectures homework solutions reading syllabus lectures 1-3 lectures 4-6 lectures 7-9 lecture 10 (revised 2/28) hw1 hw2 hw3 due 2/11 hw4 due 2/18 hw5 due 2/27 hw1 pdf hw2 pdf hw3 pdf, nb hw4 pdf, nb hw5 pdf, nb Chandler 3.1-3.5 (due 1/11) McQuarrie 2.1-2.5 (due 1/18) McQuarrie 4.1,5.1-5.3 (due 1/25) Hill ch 1, ch 2 Hill 3.1-3.2,4.1-4. (due 2/11) Hill 8.1-8.4, McQuarrie 6.1-6.6 (due 2/20) Hill 22.8 (due 2/25) Exam 1, Monday, March 3 (in class, open notes) lecture 11 hw6 due 3/17 hw6 pdf, nb Hill ch 5.1-5.2, McQuarrie 11.1-11.2 March 8-15, no class meetings or office hours (Spring break) lecture 12 revised (3/23) lecture 13 revised(3/23) lecture 14 revised (3/26) lecture 15 revised (4/7) lecture 16 revised (4/16) hw7 due 3/24 hw8 due 4/2 hw9 due 4/9 hw10 due 4/23 hw7 pdf hw8 pdf hw9 pdf Hill ch 5.3-5.4, McQuarrie 11.3-11.5 Hill ch 22.2, McQuarrie 10.1-10.3 Kittel (6th Ed) p. 127-140 Hill 7-2 (p130-133) Hill ch 10 (due April 6) McQuarrie ch 9 (due April 9) Hill ch 11 (due April 13) Berry, Rice & Ross 30.6-30.7 (p 911-919) Final Exam, Monday, 12:50-2:15, April 28th (open notes)

Fall 2007: CHM4411L, Physical Chemistry Lab syllabus

Spring 2007: CHM4412, Physical Chemistry II: Quantum and Spectroscopy

Fall 2006: CHM4411L, Physical Chemistry I: Thermo and Kinetics

Summer A 2006: CHM4411, Physical Chemistry I: Thermo and Kinetics

Spring 2006: CHM4411, Physical Chemistry I: Thermo and Kinetics

Fall 2005: CHM4411L, Physical Chemistry Lab

Spring 2005: CHM6490, Introduction to Spectroscopy

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

Clifford Russell Bowers Associate Professor Chemistry Department University of Florida, Gainesville email: russ@ufl.edu 2346 New Physics Building phone: (352) 846-0839

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.

NMR.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.