Equipment

The following equipment is available in our labs:

Synthesis

• 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
  
   

Characterization techniques

Electrochemistry and Photoelectrochemistry

• Potentiostats - Galvanostats
  
• Rotating-Disc electrode set-ups
  
• Rotating-Ring-Disc electrode set-ups
• Fuel Cell test station
• Photoelectrochemical set-ups
• IPCE set-up
• Glovebox
• Battery Cycler

Spectroscopy

• UV-Vis spectrometer with thin film flow cell
• FT-IR Spectrometer (Tensor II Bruker) for spectroelectrochemical investigations of electrolyte-electrode interfaces
• Raman Microscope (Bruker)

Physisorption

• Nitrogen Physisorption for pore size analysis and surface area determination
  

Microscopy

• High-resolution scanning electron microscope
  

     FEG-HRSEM SU8220 from HITACHI with a TE, BSE, SE and 2 EDX detectors (Bruker) for elemental analysis.

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...