Hanif Abid
Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has set up a most modern, state-of-the-art materials-testing science laboratory here at its main campus to facilitate the students to carry out chemical analyses and various physical methods of measurement.
It was formally inaugurated on Monday by the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui, who announced on the occasion that the students other than the AIOU will also be allowed to avail the facility on nominal charges. The features of the lab will be displayed at the website of the Higher Education Commission for information.
The lab Imported from Germany comprises X-ray reflection detector (XRD) and FTIR that is used to obtain an infrared spectrum of absorption or emission of a solid, liquid or gas. An FTIR spectrometer simultaneously collects high spectral resolution data over a wide spectral range.
