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
- Workstation PC (AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, Gigabyte RTX 5090 Windforce OC)
- 3D printers (Bambu lab H2S, A1)
- Vacuum tube furnace
- Muffle furnace
- Binder oven
- Vacuum oven
- Vacuum freeze dryer
- UV/Ozone cleaner
- 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 with integrating sphere
- Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM)
- X-ray diffractometer (XRD)
- Gas chromatographer (GC)
- Gas chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS)
- BET surface analyzer
- Optical microscopes
- Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR)
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Atomic force microscope (AFM)
- Tensile tester
- Electrochemical workstations
- Xenon lamps
- FLIR thermal imaging camera
- Keithley test equipment (6517B, 2182A, 2602, 6487, DMM6500)
