Test facilities
- Fuel cell test facilities for power dissipation up to 35 kW
- Battery test facilities for up to 300 cells
- Water electrolysis test benches for pressure up to 20 bar and 200 A power supply
- High-pressure water electrolysis test bench for pressure up to 100 bar
- Redox flow test system (Scribner 857) with 7 A and 10 A potentiostat
- Tensile testing (Materials Tester Zwick/Roell Z005 with climate chamber)
In situ/operando analytical tools
- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for up to 80 A DC current (Biologic)
- Gas analyzer for CO2 using NDIR with range of to 0.1 and 1 %
- Mass Spectrometry for gas analysis
- Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry (DEMS)
- X-ray diffraction (in-house and in collaboration with Material Science Beamline at SLS)
- FTIR/ATR Spectrometer (Bruker Vertex 70v) with electrochemical cell
- Combined Raman and FTIR Microscope (HORIBA Jobin Yvon) with electrochemical cells
- Electrochemical X-ray absorption spectroscopy (in collaboration with SuperXAS / Phoenix Beamline at SLS) with electrochemical cell
- Neutron Imaging (in collaboration with NEUTRA and ICON Beamlines at SINQ)
- Neutron Diffraction (in collaboration with HRPT Beamline at SINQ) with electrochemical cell
- X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy (in-house using GE Nanotom m and in collaboration with Tomcat Beamline at SLS) with electrochemical cells
- Helox/Oxygen gain measurements with Pulsed Gas Analysis (PGA)
- XPS Photoelectron Spectrometer (Escalab 220i XL) for solid state batteries with electrochemical cell
Standard analytical tools
- XPS Photoelectron Spectrometer (Escalab 220i XL)
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM/EDX/STEM) with Broad Ion Beam Sample Preparation
- Small Angle X-ray Scattering/X-ray diffraction (SAXS/XRD, Rigaku)
- TGA and DSC calorimetric analysis
- Standard electrochemical equipment (CV, EIS, RRDE, galvanostatic charge/discharge)
- In-plane and through-plane membrane conductivity cell (Scribner)
- Karl Fischer Test (Water content determination)
- Oxygen gas sensor educatec 0-27 % +/- 1% (GDX O2 sensor with Bluetooth interface)
Preparation
- Membrane preparation facilities (area 25 x 25 cm2)
- Infrastructure for non-aqueous electrochemistry (glove box, electrochemical cells)
- Catalyst Synthesis facilities