Facilities
The lab has a wide-range of facilities and instrumentation available for cutting edge research in the interdisciplinary field of nanoscience.
These facilities, which are available to group members, are summarized within three major categories as follows:
- Materials Synthesis
- Processing and Fabrication
- Materials Characterisation
Materials Synthesis
- Thermal vapor deposition system
- Electrospinning
- Sol-gel
- Hydrothermal
Processing and Fabrication
- 3D printers
- Vacuum tube furnace
- Muffle furnace
- UV/Ozone cleaner
- Ball Miller
- Critical point dryer
- Spin coater
- Dip coater
- Centrifuge
- Multiposition magnetic stirrers
- Ultrasonic processor
- Water circulator
- Hotplates
- Heating mantles
- Water bath
Materials Characterization
- I-V probe station & temperature stage
- Field emission system
- Gas sensing system
- UV-Vis spectrophotometer
- Scanning electron microscope
- X-ray diffractometer
- Gas chromatographer
- BET surface analyzer
- Optical Microscopes
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Atomic force microscope
