Instruments and Tools

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