Equipment
The following equipment is available in our labs:
Synthesis and processing
- Dip-coater
- Spin-coater
- Glove-box with coating facilities
- Tubular furnaces with controlled atmosphere (Ar, N2, H2/N2, NH3 etc)
- Calcination furnaces
- Plasma cleaner
- Schlenk-line facilities
- Synthesis autoclaves (40 mL and 1L)
- CO2-supercritical drying reactor (1L)
- Spray-coater
- ALD reactors (Wafers and powders, Arradiance) New!
- Drybox for battery processing
Characterization techniques
Electrochemistry and Photoelectrochemistry
- Potentiostats - galvanostats (also mutichannel with impedance spectroscopy)
- Rotating-disc electrode set-ups
- Rotating-ring-disc electrode set-ups
- Fuel Cell test station
- Photoelectrochemical set-ups
- IPCE set-up
- Glovebox (Argon for LIB)
- Battery Cycler
- Coin cell and swagelock cell equippment
- EC-MS system (SpectroInlets) New!
Spectroscopy
- UV-Vis spectrometer with thin film flow cell
- FT-IR Spectrometer (Tensor II Bruker) for spectroelectrochemical investigations of electrolyte-electrode interfaces
- ATR-IR spectroelectrochemical cell
- Raman Microscope (Bruker)
Physisorption
- Nitrogen physisorption for pore size analysis and surface area determination
- Water physisorption (soon to come)
Microscopy
- High-resolution scanning electron microscope
FEG-HRSEM SU8220 from HITACHI with a TE, BSE, SE and 2 EDX detectors (Bruker) for elemental analysis.
For the postmortem analysis of battery materials we also have inert transfer capsules.
- In-situ electrochemical (S)TEM holder
- In-situ electrochemical SEM holder (soon to come)
In addition we have access to the full facilities of the IAAC, the FMF and the FIT including inter alia
NMR, XRD, GI-XRD, SAXS and GI-SAXS, FT-IR, Raman, AAS, EA, HR-(S)TEM, AFM etc...