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
- ALD reactors (soon to come)
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
- EC-MS system (soon to come)
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.
- Insitu electrochemical (S)TEM 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...