DATA ACQUISITION AND ELECTRONICS

• Introduction to data acquisition
• Introduction to electronics
• Detection electronics

DATA ANALYSIS

• Introduction
• Accuracy and precision
• Calibration
• Graphs & graphical methods
• Significant figures
• Standard addition
• Statistical formulas
• Working curves

DIFFRACTION METHODS

• Introduction
• Electron diffraction
• Neutron diffraction
• X-ray diffraction

ELECTROCHEMISTRY

• Introduction
• Electrolytic methods
  • background
  • anodic stripping
  • coulometry
  • linear-sweep voltammetry
  • polarography
• Potentiometry
  • background
  • ion-selective electrodes

GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS

• Introduction
• Analytical balance

IMAGING TECHNIQUES

• Introduction
• Electron microscopy
  • electron microscopy
  • transmission-electron microscopy (TEM)
  • scanning-electron microscopy (SEM)
• Light microscopy
• Atomic-scale imaging techniques:
  • atomic-force microscopy (AFM)
  • near-field optical microscopy (NFOM)
  • scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM)

MASS SPECTROMETRY

• Introduction
• Ionization techniques
• Ion detectors
• Mass spectrometer designs:
  • ion-cyclotron resonance fourier transform (ICR-FT-MS)
  • ion-trap
  • magnetic-sector
  • quadrupole
  • time-of-flight (TOF-MS)

MATERIALS AND SURFACE ANALYSIS

• Cross-reference of methods for bulk materials and surface analysis

OPTICS

• Introduction
• Basic optical components
• Radiation detectors
• Radiation sources
• Wavelength separators

SENSORS

• Introduction to sensors

SEPARATIONS

• Introduction
• Chromatography
  • chromatography introduction
  • chromatography theory
  • gas chromatography (GC)
  • gas chromatography columns
  • gas chromatography detectors
  • gas chromatography injectors
  • high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
  • ion chromatography
  • liquid chromatography (LC)
  • size-exclusion chromatography (SEC)
  • supercritical-fluid chromatography (SFC)
  • thin-layer chromatography (TLC)
• Electrophoresis
  • introduction and principles
  • capillary electrophoresis
  • discontinuous electrophoresis
  • gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)
• Extraction
  • introduction and principles
  • solid-phase extraction (SPE)
  • supercritical-fluid extraction (SFE)

SPECTROSCOPY

• Introduction
  • absorption
  • emission
  • scattering
  • Beer-Lambert law
  • quantitative fluorimetry
• Atomic spectroscopy
  • Atomic transitions (theory)
  • Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AA)
  • Atomic emission spectroscopy (AES, OES)
  • Atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS)
• Electron spectroscopy
  • Introduction
  • Auger electron spectroscopy (AES)
  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, ESCA)
• Infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy
  • introduction
  • characteristic IR bands
  • instrumentation
• Laser spectroscopy
  • Cavity-ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy (CRLAS)
  • Intracavity-absorption spectroscopy
  • Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF)
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • Resonance-ionization spectroscopy
• Molecular spectroscopies
  • Near-infrared absorption spectroscopy (NIR)
  • Optical rotation and polarimetry
  • Uv-vis absorption spectroscopy (uv-vis)
  • see also the laser, infrared, and NMR spectroscopies
• Nuclear and electron resonance spectroscopies
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR, ESR) spectroscopy
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) introduction
  • cw-NMR instruments
  • FT-NMR instruments
• X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopies
  • Mossbauer spectroscopy
  • X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy

STANDARDS

• Primary
• Secondary

THERMAL METHODS

• Introduction
• Thermogravimetry (TG)
• Differential-thermal analysis (DTA)
• Differential-scanning calorimetry (DSC)

TITRATION

• Introduction