Equipment

Instruments and Equipment in our Laboratory

Instrumentation and Analytical Equipment

• Quantum Design SQUID Magnetometer
• Bruker D2-XRay Diffractometer
• Rigaku XRay Diffractometer
• Impedance Spectroscopy System
  • Solartron 1260 Frequency Response Analyzer
  • Solartron 1287 Electrochemical Interface
  • Solartron 1296 Dielectric Interface
• Battery Cycling Instruments
  • 2 Arbin 32 Channel Cyclers (64 Arbin Channels Total)
  • 3 Maccor 4 Channel Cyclers (12 Channels Total)
  • 8 Newware 8 Channel Cyclers (64 Channels Total)
  • Total of 140 Battery Cycling Channels for Concurrent Battery Analysis
• Thermogravimetric Analyzer or TGA
• Differential Thermographic Analyzer or DTA
• RegioGas Analyzer or RGA; Sometimes Referred to as a 'MiniMassSpec'
• Perkin Elmer FTIR with ATR, Through Sample, and Custom Setups
• Tenny Atmospheric Chamber for Controlled Battery Atmosphere Cycling
• Dilatometer
• Keithley Devices
  • - K2182 NanoVoltmeter
  • - K2182A NanoVoltmeter
  • - K2400 Source Measure Unit
  • - K6517A Electrometer
  • - K7001 Switch
• - Van der Paw Board
• Thermoelectric CryoAnalytical Characterization Instrumentation
• Precision IR Non-Contact Temperature Sensor
• Tristar Surface Area Analyzer
• High Precision MicroBalance
• High Precision Balance
• 3 General Use Balances

Other Equipment

• 6 Atmosphere Glove Boxes
  • 1 Argon MBRAUN Box
  • 3 Nitrogen MBRAUN Boxes
  • 1 Argon Atmosphere Custom Built Box
  • 1 Dynamic High Purity Gas Environment, High Gas Turnover Possible with Box Evacuation, Custom Built Box
• 1500 Degree Celsius Tube Furnace
• 1200 Degree Celsius Split Tube Furnace
• 3 1300 Degree Tube Furnaces
• Centrifuge
• Frisch Planetary Ball Mill
• Frisch Oscillating Mill
• Mazerustar Mixing Machine
• Acid Fume Hood
• 2 General Purpose Fume Hoods
• Carbon Dioxide Laser, 60W Power, 10.6 micron wavelength, Class 4
• Fiber Coupled Laser , 200W Power, 980nm wavelength, Class 4
• Fiber Laser from IPG Photonics, 1,000W Power, 1070nm wavelength, Class 4
• Custom High Vacuum Manifolds
• High Vacuum Diffusion Pumps (>8)
• Many Vacuum Pumps
• 2 Low Temperature Baths
• Rotovap
• Rolling Electrode Calendar
• Precision Micrometer
• Custom Built Laser Systems

Instrumentation and Equipment with Routine Access

Departmental Instruments and Equipment

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrograph or ICP-OES
• Gas Chromatograph Coupled Mass Spectrometer or GC-MS
• RAMAN Spectrometer
• UV-VIS Spectrometer
• Fluorescence Spectrometer
• Small, Flow Capable, NMR Units
• 2 NMRs (400 and 600 MHz)
• Liquid Chromatograph
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscope
• FTIR Spectroscope

Other Routine Access

• FEI Talos F200X Transmission Electron Microscope with XFEG high brightness gun
  • - Atomic Resolution STEM Capable
  • - EDS Elemental Analysis and Mapping Capable
  • - 3D Elemental Tomography Capable with 4 Si drift EDS detectors
  • - Double Angle Tilting Sample Holder for Crystallographic and other Studies
• FEI Teneo ultra high resolution Scanning Electron Microscope
  • - EDS Elemental Analysis and Mapping Capable
• FEI Helios Scanning Electron Microscope, FIB Capable
• RAMAN Precision Laser Spectroscope