| Equipment
Under construction 😉
Optics
- Polarizing microscope with a digital imaging system (ECLIPSE Ci-L plus, Nikon) and a heating/cooling stage (LTS420, Linkam).
Thermal analysis
- TGA (Q50, TA Instruments)
- DSC (Q20, TA Instruments)
- micro-DSC (MicroCal PEAQ-DSC, Malvern Panalytical)
- oxygen bomb calorimeter (Calorimeter 8801800, IKA)
Spectroscopy
- Custom-built UV–vis platform for operando studies of molecular photoswitches and motors under simultaneous irradiation in solution and in solid-state (Varius 4K, Avantes; AvaLight-DH-S-BAL, Avantes; qpod, Quantum Northwest; 4P4, Thorlabs)
- UV-vis (Cary 50, Agilent)
- FT-IR
- spectrofluorometer
- stopped-flow
- multimode plate reader
- EPR (microESR Bruker)
Chromatography
- Flash chromatograph (CombiFlash NextGen 300+, Teledyne)
- GC-FID (Agilent 7820A)
- GC-MS
- GPC for fullerenes
- GPC/SEC for synthetic polymers (Nexera GPC System, Shimadzu with RID detector)
Electrochemistry
- Clark electrode
- electrochemical station
Scattering techniques
- DLS (Zetasizer Nano, Malvern Panalytical)
Synthesis infrastructure
- LED photo-reactors
- Schlenk’s lines (Ar and N2)
- high-pressure autoclave
Other equipment
- centrifuge
- vacuum drying chambers
- rotary evaporators
- dry box
- melting point measuring unit – automatic
Courtesy of other research groups, we have access to the following infrastructure:
- Spectrometers (300 MHz NMR);
- Chromatography (IT-ToF-LCMS);
- Microscopic techniques (TEM, SEM).
