Equipment
Agilent 5100 VDV ICP-OES
- PC controlled Vertical Dual View Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer.
- Full wavelength coverage from 167–785 nm
- Torch configuration suitable for inorganic solutions (excluding HF)
Autochem 2920
- Fully automated catalyst characterization instrument via dynamic flow method
- Gas analysis: Thermal conductivity detector (TCD) with Cirrus 2 Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer installation
- Temperature: -100 – 1000 °C with Cryo-cooler installation
Analysis:
1) Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR); H2
2) Temperature-programmed oxidation (TPO); O2 and CO2
3) Temperature-programmed desorption (TPD); CO2 and NH3
4) Chemisorption; H2, CO and N2O
5) Single point N2 physisorption
BELCAT-M
- Manual manipulation for catalyst characterization instrument via dynamic flow method
- Gas analysis: Thermal conductivity detector (TCD)
- Temperature: ambient – 1000 °C
BET - Nova 4000e (Quantachrome instrument)
- BET surface area
- Langmuir surface areas
- BJH pore size and pore volume distributions
- t-plot
- MP-method and Density Functional Theory
DRIFTS - Nicolet 6700 FT-IR Spectrometer from Thermo Scientific
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- Pressure up to 30 bar using ZnSe window
DXR™ 2 Raman Microscope equipped with CCR1000 Linkam
- Multiple Excitation Lasers: Supported wavelengths 455 nm, 532 nm, 780 nm
- Equipped with digital video camera
- 10X, 20X, 50X and 100X microscope objectives, with brightfield/darkfield
Inverted Light Microscope - Leica
Monochromatic light source (LOT-Oriel)
Complete monochromatic light source for the building of an IPCE solar cell simulation, including 300 W Xe light source and 150 mm monochromator.
PANalytical Empyrean X-ray Powder Diffractometer
Instrument specifications
- CuKα X-ray radiation (standard operation)
- Bragg-Brentano HD incident beam optics
- X’Celerator Scientific ultra-fast line detector
- Sample changer for 15 samples and Si zero-background sample holders – 32 mm available
- Data collector software: Highscore and ICDD PDF-2 2015 database
- Mo X-ray radiation (installation on demand)
- Diffracted beam 1d monochromator (for suppression of fluorescence radiation)
- Capillary spinner stage (data collection in transmission geometry)
- Anton Paar XRK 900 reaction chamber for powder XRD experiments at variable temperature, and in various gas atmospheres (reduced, oxidizing or inert atmospheres) is available
For more information contact: Abdala, Paula ; Donat Felix
Solar simulator set-up (LOT-Oriel)
- 150 W Xe arc lamp
- Filter for AM 1.5 and electronic shutter, combined with VoltaLab 40 potentiostat
- So-called cappuccino cell (3-electrodes) available.
PID high pressure reactor
- Two independent temperature and pressure controlled Hastelloy X reactors in parallel with completely independent gas and liquid feed control each
- HPLC Gilson pump
- Isco pump
- 2 liquid gas separators (one per reactor)
- External box including 7 MFCs gas feed per each reactor (total 14 MFCs)
Maximum temperature at 1 bar : 1200 ºC
Maximum temperature at 100 bar : 800 ºC
Catalyst Testing Rig ( Methane Reforming )
- independent Bronkhorst MFCs to feed different reactant gases
- Evaporator mixer for co-feeding of liquid (H2O) with reactant gases
- Radiating furnace with low thermal inertia capable of reaching 950 °C
- Stainless-steel and quartz, 9-mm reactors
- PerkinElmer GC (Clarus 580) equipped with TCD and FID
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) - Picosun R-200
- Integrated with nitrogen glove box
- Sample holder for up to 8”/200mm wafers or pieces of wafers
- 4 separate precursor source systems: 2 liquid (PicosolutionTM 100) and 2 solid (Picosolid BoosterTM)
- Ozone generator
- Holder for depositing onto powder
- Maximum deposition temperature of 500°C
Ball mill
Microwave reactor (Monowave 300, Anton Paar)
- 850 W microwave power
- Magnetic stirring
- Reaction conditions up to 300 °C and 30 bar (435 psi)
- Vials available: G10 (reaction volume 2-6 mL) and G30 (6-20 mL)
Dip coater HO-TH-02 (Holmarc)
- Dip coating unit equipped with a hot chamber (temperature up to 75 °C)
- Drawing speed minimum 2 μm/s, maximum 9000 2 μm/s.
- 5 programs in memory.
TGA DSC1 (Mettler Toledo)
Temperature range RT to 1100 °C
Temperature accuracy ± 0.25 K
Sample volume ≤ 100 μL
Measurement range ≤ 1g
Resolution 1 μg
Ambient pressure
Available gases: N2, air, CO2, CH4, H2, CO
TGA DSC 3+ (Mettler Toledo)
Temperature range RT to 1100 °C
Temperature accuracy ± 0.3 K
Sample volume ≤ 900 μL
Measurement range ≤ 5g
Resolution 1 μg
Ambient pressure
Available gases: N2, air, CO2, H2, CO
TGA Linseis HP
TGA Linseis