Navigable 3D virtual tour of the radiochemistry laboratory

A 3D virtual walkthrough of Dr. Nathalie Wall’s radiochemistry laboratory, showing laboratory rooms containing chemical fume hoods, benchtops with analytical instruments, gloveboxes for inert-atmosphere work, radiation‑monitoring equipment, spectrometers, calorimetry instruments, and other standard laboratory tools. The viewer can navigate through multiple rooms, including the main lab, analytical instrument room, counting room, and areas with ventilated hoods, sample preparation spaces, and temperature‑controlled experimental setups.

Details of the Laboratory

The 1,635 sq. ft. laboratory includes traditional infrastructure, (benches, fume hoods, distilled water, etc.). The Radiochemistry laboratory is licensed for the safe handling of nuclear materials (including Pu); each member of the Wall research group is monitored for radiation exposure. The laboratory features instrumentation such as an auto-titrator for potentiometric titrations; a spectrophotometer for absorbance and reflectance measurements; inert atmosphere gloveboxes; a fluorescence spectrometer, total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer; a calorimeter; and traditional pieces of equipment used in chemistry (e.g. ovens, shakers, pH meters, etc.). In addition, the laboratory features a full array of α, β, and γ radioactivity counting equipment, including a liquid scintillation counter, auto-gamma counter, intrinsic germanium gamma spectrometer, silicon surface barrier alpha spectrometers.

We also have access to a large number of characterization tools (e.g., 3D printing, electron microscopy, film deposition, hot processing, metrology, particle characterization, spectroscopy, surface characterization, XRD), at the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s Research Service Centers, and NMR instruments at the UF Chemistry Department’s the Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Furthermore, we are able to perform neutron activation analyses at the UF Training Reactor (UFTR), which host a 100 kW Argonaut-type reactor.