Research Equipment

Electrochemistry

Custom-made combinatorial physical vapour deposition apparatus from PVD Products (USA) for the synthesis of 64 electrocatalysts employing up to four different magnetrons.  This allows for the synthesis and simultaneous electrochemical characterisation of binary, tertiary, and quaternary electrocatalysts.  Hotspots can be further refined by sputtering onto 16 (4 x 4) glassy carbon disk inserts, for electrochemical characterisation by RDE (Rotating Disk Electrode) and RRDE (Rotating Ring Disk Electrode) studies.

 
BioLogic Science Instruments’ VMP3 multichannel Potentiostat with EC-Lab Software, 20 Amp Booster Channel, and Pine Research Instrumention Rotating Electrodes and Speed Controller
Allows Rotating Ring Disk Electrode Studies with Impedance

BioLogic Science Instruments’ VSP Double Channel Potentiostat with EC-Lab Software, 4 Amp Booster Channel, and Pine Research Instrumention Rotating Electrodes and Speed Controller
Allows Rotating Ring Disk Electrode Studies with Impedance

BioLogic Science Instruments’ SP-150 Single Channel Potentiostat with EC-Lab Software and Pine Research Instrumention Rotating Electrodes and Speed Controller
Allows Rotating Ring Disk Electrode Studies with Impedance.

PAR 273A Potentiostat with a Solartron HF 1255 High Frequency Response Analyzer and Pine Research Instrumention Rotating Electrodes and Speed Controller
Allows Rotating Disk Electrode studies with Impedance.

Metal Analysis

Analytik Jena Diode Array UV/VIS Spectrophotometer

 
Metrohm Double Buret Potentiometric Autotitrator

Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 Series ICP Spectrometer