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...