BASi EC News - July 2008
20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
Indiana University, Bloomington
July 27-31, 2008
BASi will exhibit in Booth No. 11 at the 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education at Indiana University in Bloomington.
BCCE is a national meeting sponsored by the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society. Find complete
information about the meeting at the BCCE website.
American Chemical Society Fall Meeting
Philadelphia
August 18 - 20, 2008
BASi will exhibit in Booth No. 1821 at the 2008 ACS Fall Meeting in Philadelphia. We will again be displaying our line of
epsilon instruments. Please stop by the booth to see the latest features of the epsilon, or to discuss any of our products.
Congratulations to R. Mark Wightman for receiving the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry. The award symposium will take place
Monday afternoon, August 18, from 1:05 to 4:55 at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Philadelphia, in Ballroom Salon I & II.
EC epsilon and its Computer Connection
A year ago, the EC epsilon was redesigned to use a USB-to-computer interface instead of the serial (comm.) port interface. Most
new computers do not come with integrated serial (comm.) ports, which can present a problem with earlier serial epsilons. If you
have a serial epsilon and you need to replace your computer, there are three options. (Note that simple USB-to-serial adapters and
add-in PCI serial boards will NOT work.)
- Buy computer from BASi. The computers we supply have a serial port.
- Insert a PCMCIA card/adapter, purchased from outside computer parts suppliers. Cost is approximately $200. Detailed
instructions and tested supplier are available by contacting BASi.
- Upgrade your serial epsilon to a USB epsilon. The instrument must be returned to BASi for this. A connector is added to the
back of the instrument and the epsilon cpu board is replaced. Cost is approximately $1500. Please contact
BASi Service for this option.
DropSens Screen-Printed Electrodes
DropSens manufactures and commercializes screen-printed electrodes, as well as cables and accessories that allow using
the electrodes with any kind of potentiostat. Besides the stock products shown in the catalog, DropSens can develop
customized screen-printed electrodes based on customer's requirements; different designs (configuration and dimensions) and inks
(carbon, gold, platinum, silver, silver/silver chloride...) can be combined in the customized electrodes.
Moreover, DropSens manufactures portable potentiostats (i.e. ref. STAT200), also customizable according to client needs. For
more information, visit www.dropsens.com or contact
info@dropsens.com.
Electrode samples will be on display in the BASi booth at both the BCCE and ACS exhibitions.
KinFitSim: Kinetics Simulation and Fitting Software
KinFitSim is a digital simulation program for homogeneous kinetic chemical reaction mechanisms. The software was
developed by Professor Irina Svir as a general use package that is very flexible, yet powerful and can be used in many applications
in teaching and research for photochemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemical investigations.
- User-friendly, Windows® interface
- User-specified homogeneous reaction mechanism
- Import photochemical data for fitting
- Automatic parameter optimization for best fit to experimental data
- Three methods of numerical simulation
- Four fitting optimization methods
Figure shows concentrations of three species taking part in an oscillating chemical mechanism (Briggs-Rauscher reaction)
simulated using KinFitSim.
For more information, contact Dr. Irina B. Svir at irina.svir@kture.kharkov.ua
or view a list of publications on the web.
To see a demonstration of this software, stop by the BASi booth at either the BCCE or ACS show.
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