Facilities
Views of the group's main research lab
Facilities
Materials Synthesis Equipment
- Automated high-throughput synthesis platforms (ATLAS facilities)
- Drying and vacuum ovens
- Microwave oven (Analytical Services)
- Tubular furnaces (up to 1,500 oC)
- Centrifuge
- Autoclaves
- Bath and probe sonicators
- Circulating baths
- Analytical balance
Materials Characterisation Equipment
- Porosity analyser (Micromeritics, 3Flex)
- DRIFTS spectrophotometer (Bruker)
- Thermogravimetric analyser (Netzsch & TA Instrument via ATLAS facilities)
- Particle size analyser (Wyatt via ATLAS facilities)
- Microplate nephlometer (BMG Labtech via ATLAS facilities)
- Microplate spectrometer (BMG Labtech via ATLAS facilities)
- GC MS (Agilent & Shimadzu)
- ATR FTIR spectrometer (Analytical Services)
- X-ray diffractometer (Analytical Services)
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (Materials Department)
- Electron imaging techniques (Materials Department)
Materials Testing Equipment
- Gas sorption analyser (Micromeritics, HPVAII, Micromeritics, 3Flex and Hiden, IGA - Analytical Services)
- Breakthrough set-up (purpose built)
- Dynamic sorption analyser (purpose built, described in this article)
- Gas-solid photocatalytic batch and flow reactors (purpose built)
- Xenon lamps
- Solar simulator