Equipment

Smart Functional Materials

  • Synthesis
    - Sol-gel synthesis laboratory
    - Autoclaves for supercritical drying, equipment for defined convective drying
    - Tube and chamber furnaces for processes in air or defined atmosphere (up to 1250 °C) and under inert gas (up to 1800 °C)
  • Structural characterization
    - Scanning electron microscope with EDX, electron beam lithography option, heating table up to 1500 °C, push/pull module
    - Gas adsorption systems with optional sample holders for in-situ dilatometric measurements (gases and vapors)
    - Helium pycnometry
    - Dynamic light scattering for particle size analysis for (particles < 6 μm)
    - Small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering (structures <100 nm, suitable for solids, powders and systems in liquids, the method is also suitable for in-situ characterization)
    - Beam-bending on wet gels 
  • Water absorption & gas transport
    - Precision balance for determination of water absorption and vapor diffusion
    - Gas permeation equipment for analysis of gas transport through porous materials
    - Equipment for the determination of solution diffusion in barrier layers/seals
  • Electrochemistry
    - Cyclic voltammetry
    - Impedance spectroscopy (10 μHz - 250 kHz)
    - Constant current cycling
    - Glovebox (organic electrolytes)
    - Measuring cells for half- and full-cell measurements (optionally also with in-situ dilatometry)
    - Four-pole arrangement for the determination of electrical conductivity
  • Further analytics
    - Mobile mass spectrometer for gas analysis (mass numbers up to 200 amu)
    - Ultrasonic transit time measurements for determination of E-module


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