Industrial Liaison Office
Facility and Equipment Availability
For ex-situ samples
| Large sample plate | Accommodates multiple sample holders and can accommodate upto 200 pellets. Sample holders are 3D printed and can be shipped to users ahead of the experiment. |
| Air sensitive shuttle | For measuring air senstive samples with soft x-rays |
| Robot | Under commissioning. Automatic sample changer with the possibility to accommodate 200+ samples |
Furnaces
RT-1000ºC
| Capillary furnace | Capillary-based sample environment with integrated wire heaters and gas flow system, operating in the temperature range RT - 1000ºC. Capillaries of 100mm length and 3 or 6 mm diameter fit this furnace. Quartz capillaries (50μm and 250μm thickness) and kapton capillaries available on B18. |
| 13mm pellet furnace | Operating in the range RT-1000°C. Inert and some reactive gases possible – please ask. |
B18 has its own gas delivery system, with a manifold which allows to switch between 8 gas compositions. If your experiment will use gases, please discuss this well ahead of time with beamline staff. Following are some guidelines for the use of gases in the furnaces:
| Flammable gases | Please refer to LFL limits |
| Toxic gases | An additional LEV enclosure will be used |
| Corrosive gases | Please contact beamline staff |
| As far as possible, please consider minimizing volume of the gases and concentrations. | |
Cryostats
| High troughput LN2 cryostick, compatible with soft x-rays (can accommodate multiple samples) | RT - 77K |
| Oxford instruments LN2 cryostat (can accommodate 1 sample at a time) | RT - 77K |
| Helium Pulse Tube cryostat (can accommodate upto 4 samples) | RT - 4K |
Electrochemistry kit
| Ivium Octostat |
8 independent channels Voltage range: ± 10V Current range : ± 200mA |
| Peristaltic Pump |
Three independent channels. Dual direction. Flow rate: 0.0002-35 mL/min Speed range: 0.1-100 rpm Tubing compatibility: IDs (mm) 0.13, 0.19, 0.25, 0.38, 0.44, 0.51, 0.57, 0.64, 0.76, 0.89, 0.95, 1.02, 1.09, 1.14, 1.22, 1.3, 1.42, 1.52, 1.65, 1.75, 1.85, 2.06, 2.29, 2.54, 2.79, 3.17 |
| Reference electrodes |
Ag/AgCl, Hg/HgO, SCE (Saturated Calomel Electrode) for our flow cell |
Support Labs
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Three labs: wet, dry and characterisation |
With basic equipment such as hot plate, balances, selection of glassware, pestle and mortar, tweezers, spatulas etc. |
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Thermo FT-IR Microscope |
FT-IR with mapping capabilities |
| Wet O2 free and H2O/O2 free Ar glove boxes | Please request for a glove box in the proposal/ERA |
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Perkin Elmer UV spectrometer |
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Renishaw Raman Microscope |
Micro-Raman system with mapping capabilities |
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Zeiss AxioVision Optical Microscope |
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Nikon Polarised Microscope |
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Fume cupboard |
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Incubator |
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Microbiological safety cabinet (class 2) |
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Grinding/Polishing machine |
Range of polishing grades available |
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Cutting machine |
Water cooled |
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Microtome |
WC and Stainless blades |
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Pellet Press |
8 and 13mm dies on the bench. 8mm manual press inside the glove box |
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Ball Mill for grinding samples |
For quantities < 1g |
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Tube Furnaces |
Advance notice required. |
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Upright Furnace |
Up to 1500C |
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Clean Room |
Balance and Microscope installed |
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Fridge/ Freezer (-20 C) |
Access to a -80 freezer available on request |
| Schlenk line | |
| Heat sealing machine | For heat sealing air sensitive samples inside aluminium pouches in glove box |
