Lab Skills Modules

The Research Training and Safety program currently consists of the following Lab Skills Modules.  Some students and staff working in School of Chemistry laboratories may be required to complete a selection of the modules. This will be determined by your supervisor, yourself and the lab manager, and will be dependent on areas of need for your project and the extent of your experience working in chemistry labs.

You will have completed a module when you have read the SWPs and passed the quiz with a satisfactory score.

Lab Skills 1 – Glassware handling and cleaning

• • Lab Skills 1.0 – Glassware handling and cleaning

    • Safe handling of glassware, basic cleaning, use base baths, awareness of more advanced cleaning options

Lab Skills 2 – Liquid Transfer

• • Lab Skills 2.1 – Liquid Transfer – Basic

    • Winchesters and flasks, pipettes, disposable syringes and needles

  • Lab Skills 2.2 – Liquid Transfer – Advanced

    • Reusable syringes and needles (e.g. Hamilton syringes), adjustable and fixed volume pipettes (e.g. Eppendorf pipettes)

Lab Skills 3 – Balances, fume cupboards and fridges

• • Lab Skills 3.1 - Balances and fume cupboards - Chemical Sciences (F10)

    • Use of balances and general use and operating instructions for Dynaflow fume cupboards in Chemical Sciences (F10)

  • Lab Skills 3.2 - Balances and fume cupboards - Hilmer (E10) (Under review, available soon)

    • Use of balances and general use and operating instructions for Waldner fume cupboards in Hilmer  (E10)

  • Lab Skills 3.3 - Fridges and freezers 

    • Use of fridges and freezers at School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 4 – Hotplate stirrers, heating mantles, heat guns and oil baths

• • Lab Skills 4.0 – Hotplate stirrers, heating mantles, heat guns and oil baths

    • Use of hotplate stirrers, heat guns, heating mantles and oil baths

Lab Skills 5 – Ovens

• • Lab Skills 5.0 – Ovens

    • General use of  ovens in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 6 – Distillations

• • Lab Skills 6.0 – Distillations

    • General operation of distillations in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 7 – Reactions

• • Lab Skills 7.1 – Reflux Reactions

    • Performing reflux reactions in the School of Chemistry

       Lab Skills 7.2 – NMR Samples 

Routine NMR sample preparation in the School of Chemsitry

Lab Skills 8 – Rotary Evaporators

• • Lab Skills 8.0 – Rotary Evaporators

    • Use of rotary evaporators in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 9 –Column Chromatography, TLC

• • Lab Skills 9.0 – Column Chromatography, TLC 

    • Use of Column Chromatography and TLC  in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 10 –Centrifuges

• • Lab Skills 10.0 – Use of Centrifuges 

    • Use of Centrifuges  in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 11 – Sonicators

• • Lab Skills 11.1 – General use of sonicators in chemistry laboratories 

    • Use of ultrasonic baths to perform various functions including cleaning and sample homogenisation

Lab Skills 12 –Glove Boxes

• • Lab Skills 12.0 – Use of Glove Boxes 

    • Use of Glove Boxes  in the School of Chemistry

Lab Skills 13 – Schlenk lines

• • Lab Skills 13.1– Use of Schlenk lines - Basic

    • Installation and use of vacuum and schlenk lines 

Lab Skills 14 - Cell Culture

• Lab Skills 14.1.1 - Use of the SEB Central Autoclave

  • Operating instructions for the SEB Central Autoclave in E8-515

Lab Skills 15 - Hydrothermal Autoclaves

• Lab Skills 15.1 - Handling and Use of Hydrothermal Autoclaves 

  • Procedures for handling hydrothermal autoclaves

MODULES UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Lab Skills 13 – Schlenk lines

• • Lab Skills 13.2 – Use of Schlenk lines - Advanced