State-of-the-Art Characterisation

Aberration-corrected (S)TEM down to 0.06 nm resolution. Cryo-stage for beam-sensitive materials, in-situ gas reaction cell, STEM-EDS / EELS mapping. Booked ~80% of the month.

Ag-source PDF for pair-distribution analysis up to 18 Å. Operando cell for 1 MPa / 1 000 K. A bridge to SOLEIL for 80% of advanced runs. Dedicated XAS pre-edge spectroscopy cell.

N₂, CO₂, H₂, CH₄, Ar, Kr isotherms at 77–423 K. Breakthrough columns to 10 bar. BET surface area, DFT pore-size distributions, NLDFT kernels. Turnaround: sample to report in 48 h.

16-channel potentiostat/galvanostat with EIS (10 μHz–7 MHz). Coupled to RDE/RRDE for electrocatalysis screening. H-cell and flow-cell fixtures for CO₂ reduction experiments.

532, 633 and 785 nm laser lines. Confocal mapping at 300 nm lateral resolution. High-temperature stage (RT–1500 °C) for in-situ MOF activation and gas adsorption studies.

9 kW rotating-anode diffractometer with in-situ humidity and temperature cells. Rietveld refinement, Le Bail fit, phase identification. Ideal for MOF crystal structure characterisation.

Wide-bore 14.1 T magnet with fast-MAS probes (up to 111 kHz). ¹H, ¹³C, ²⁷Al, ²³Na, ³¹P routine nuclei. DNP-NMR capability for surface-site detection at natural abundance.