Equipment and Methods

Eppendorf Centrifuge 5804

• Ultrasonic bath and ultrasonic horn
• Rotary vapour evaporator
• Schlenk and vacuum technology
• Centrifuge
• and much more

Electrospinner

2 x IME Technologies Electrospinner EC-DIG

• +25 kV bis - 4kV
• working distance: 5 - 40 cm 
• Coaxiale Extrusion
• rudimentary climate control system (filter heater, air dryer)

• simplified single-step process for Si/rGO synthesis
• water-based solvent
• further information

Carbolite EST 12/300

Ovens and drying cabinets of various sizes and atmospheres:

• Chamber furnace Nabertherm N 21/H (max temp.: 1280 °C, 13 kW)
• Split tube oven Carbolite EST 12/300 (1200 °C, 1.5 kW, oxidising or reducing atmosphere)
• Tube oven Carbolite EHA 12/450B (1200 °C, 1.96 kW, oxidising or reducing atmosphere)
• Drying cabinets Memmert UFE 400 (max 250 °C)

Vac Coat DST1-170

Physical vapour deposition (PVD)

• Sputter Coater Vac Coat DST1-170 (water cooling, different cathodes)

RDE test bench

Rotating disc electrode (RDE) 

• multiple test benches
• different gas supply
• fundamental investigation of catalyst materials

FuelCon Evaluator-C 70617

• LT-PEM 
• HT-PEM

Collin Lab Line P200E

Plate press Collin Lab Line P200E (20-300 °C, 120 kN, 196 x 196 mm)

• Regular measurement time at German synchrotron research facilities (DESY und BESSY)
• joint projects for beamline expansion (Live-XAS, Real-XAS)

STOE STADI MP

• X-ray diffractometer (XRD) STOE STADI MP

Biologic VMP-3e

Potentiostat/Galvanostat

• Multichannel Potentiostat Biologic VMP-3e

• Potentiostat/Galvanostat GAMRY Reference 600, 3000
• Booster GAMRY Reference 30K Booster 

• JACOMEX Glovebox 

Redox Flow Cell Test Bench

• Redox Cell Test System

H-cells

Flow-cells

• Synchrotron-optimised flow cells with gas diffusion electrodes (1-2.5 cm²)

Shimadzu Nexis GC-2030

• gas chromatography (GC) Shimadzu Nexis GC-2030 (FID, TCD)
• liquid GC (LGC) Shimadzu Nexis GC-2030 (Autosampler)
• high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Shimadzu (DGU-405, LC-40D xr, SPD-40, SIL-40C xr)

Microtrac Belsorp Mini X

BET-Analysis

• Microtrac Belsorp Mini X (~0,01 m²/g (N2)
• pore size distribution (0,7 - 500 nm)

Optical calorimeter

• Infrasorp - Fraunhofer IWS
• mgl. Gase: CO2, n-Butan, CH4, N2, Krypton
• Messung der Adsorptionswärme 

Olympus BX60M

Light microscopy

• Reflected light stereo microscope Olympus SZX12 (großer Arbeitsabstand, 120-fold magnification)

• Reflected light microscope Olympus BX60M (bright- und dark field, polarization filter, 5x, 10x, 20x und 50x lenses)

Struers RotoPol-31

• Grinding and polishing machine Struers RotoPol-31 (300 mm, 30-600 rpm, sample holder single: 5-100 N , central: 30-400 N)
• Ion mill BAL-TEC RES 101 (1-10 keV, > 200 mA ion current)
• High vacuum sputter coater: VacCoat DST1-170 (targets: Cu, Pt, Fe, Ag, In, ...)

Bruker Vertex 70

• Raman
• ATR-FTIR Bruker Vertex70 with Platinum ATR 

Netzsch STA 449 F5 Jupiter

Thermogravimetry (TGA) with differential thermal analysis (DSC) coupled to an infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry.

• Netzsch STA 449 C
• Bruker Vertex 70
• Netzsch QMS 403 C

Simultaneous thermal analysis Netzsch STA 449 F5 Jupiter

KeyLab Electron and Optical Microscopy

• BPI's pooled resources for structural and morphological analysis  
• high-resolution scanning and transmission electron microscopy
• Cryo units for preparing liquid samples, gels and polymers
• further information

• Glovebox production line for investigating crucial manufacturing steps in battery development

• BayBatt