Prof. Dr. Frank Uhlig
Graz University of Technology
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry
Website
Tel: +43 316 873 32100
Fax: +43 316 873 32102
Expertise
Inorganic and organometallic monomers; group 13 to 15 derivatives; silicone-based compounds; group 14 based nanoparticles and hybrid materials; inorganic polymers; 29Si and 119Sn NMR spectroscopy.
Via coworkers: light and X-ray scattering techniques; (GI)SAXS and Deep X-ray Lithography beamlines; ELETTRA Synchrotron Trieste (Italy); Outstation of TU Graz.
Equipment
• Synthetic equipment for inert gas techniques up to amounts of 4 l
• Diffractometer (Bruker APEX II diffractometer, micro source with a Mo-Kα
radiation, CCD-detector and OHCD laser for in-situ crystallization)
• NMR Spectrometer (DRX 300, Bruker and Mercury 300, Varian/Agilent)
• GC-MS (Agilent 7890A / 5975C)
• FT-IR spectrometer (Bruker IFS v/66 featuring separate light sources for near-, mid-
and far-infrared)
• FT-IR spectrometer (Bruker Alpha with universal sampling module and Platinum ATR module)
• UV/Vis/NIR spectrometer (Agilent Cary 60 UV-Vis)
• Raman spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Raman Station 400F)
• Dynamic and static light scattering (customs designed, see home page of the institute)
• SAXS-lab Graz equipped with 3 SAXS-cameras , one of which can also be used for
GISAXS (SAXSess, Anton Paar)
• Synchrotron SAXS (ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy)
• Deep X-ray lithography, DXRL (ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy)
• Tube furnace for thermal synthesis under inert gas conditions up to 800 °C
(Carbolite HZS 12 200))
• Inert-gas centrifuge Rotanta 460R (Hettich)
• Cyclovoltammetry (BANK)
• Access to all types of equipment of the university, in particular mass spectrometry,
EPR spectroscopy, magnetic measurements, GPC facilities and electron microscopy
