Facilities | htem

LIST OF INSTRUMENTS

Glove Box 1: For assembling electrochemical cells and storing very sensitive materials which are moisture and oxygen-sensitive

Glove Box 2: Used for storage of synthesized material and to make the moisture sensitive electrodes.

Multi-Beam Optical Stress Sensor (MOSS): Used for monitoring the stress development in thin films in-situ during deposition or application. This instrument has a resolution better than most techniques for stress measurement via substrate curvated and is also nearly insensitive towards vibrations. This is also used for real-time measurements of stress development in electrode materials

Single-channel Potentiostat/Galvanostat: A basic tool for electrochemical cycling under galvanostatic and potentiostatic conditions and for cyclic voltammetry. This potentiostat/galvanostat, in conjunction with MOSS, is primarily used for in-situ stress measurement of electrode materials during charge/discharge

Multi-channel Potentiostat/Galvanostat: Used for galvanostatic/potentiostat cycling, and cyclic voltammetry.

Multi-channel Potentiostat/Galvanostat: Used for galvanostatic/potentiostat cycling, cyclic voltammetry, and electrochemical impedance spectrometry (EIS) studies

Multi-channel battery Tester: Used only for galvanostatic/potentiostat cycling

3-Zone tube Furnance: High-temperature furnace with three heating zones, mainly used for bulk synthesis

Tube Furnace: High-temperature furnace for synthesis in Argon, Oxygen atmosphere and also for calcining the samples

Raising Hearth Furnance: For air quenching of sintered ceramic samples. It can go up to a maximum temperature of ~2123K

Vacuum Oven: For samples and electrodes drying at certain temperatures in vacuum conditions

Ball Milling Machine: For synthesize materials in solid-state route

Grinder/Polisher: Automated advanced grinding/polishing machine, used for polishing and abrasive wear testing of ceramic as well as metallic samples

Coater: For electrode coating

Fume Hood: To prevent the release of hazardous substances into the general laboratory by controlling and then exhausting hazardous and odorous chemicals

Calendaring Machine: Automated calendaring with heating.

Environmental Chamber: Used to do thermal testing of cells.

Pouch cell fabrication set-up