Equipment | LCES

OUR PLATFORMS

Room 1 - Shaping of ceramics

Room 2 - Electrochemical cycling

-Potential: from -10 to 10 V

-Current: up to 8A

-Impedance: from 35 MHz to 0.001 mHz

-Temperatures: from -20 to 1100 ° C

Data processing software ( EC-Lab Bio-Logic ).
Cell types supported: button cells, steel and / or plastic swagelok cells and pouch cells.

Room 3 - Reactor and recycling

Micrometric scale (ME 204 METTLER TOLEDO): precision weighting.
Rotavap (Rotavapor R-124 BÜCHI): solvents evaporation.
MP-AES (Agilent 4200): comparable to the ICP-OES, the MP-AES is used for elemental and trace analyses of various battery materials or other analytical applications. To use the instrument, click here.

Room 4 - Electrochemical cells assembly

Dynamic mixer (TURBULA Wab and AR-250 THINKY) and planetary mixer (Pulverisette 7 Fristch ): for mixing active materials.
Dr. Blade coating table ( Automatic drawdown machine II DP-8301 Gardco ): hood for coating inks and slurries at different thicknesses.
Electrode calendering and cutting apparatus.
Micrometric scale (Sartorius QUINTIX125D) and micrometer (Mitutoyo Absolute): weighing and measuring the electrodes.
Vacuum oven (Isotemp Oven Fisher Scientific): drying of inks and electrodes.
Single glove box (Labmaster dp Mbraun) for mounting all-solid batteries without solvents.
Double glove box (UNILab pro sp Mbraun): for aqueous electrolytes with heated SAS.
Double glove box (UNILab pro sp Mbraun): for liquid electrolytes with internal oven.
Centrifuge (IEC 2100R International Equipment Company)

Room 5 - Synthesis laboratory

Reactor (Heidolph™ Reactor-Ready Lab Reactor): reactional medium for recycling.
Wet mill mixer (MicroCer NETZSCH): particle size reduction up to 100nm.
Ball mills (8000M Mixer Mill SPEX): 3 mills with stainless steel or zirconia crucibles / balls.
High temperature furnaces ( Thermolyne ThermoFisher ): 8 furnaces up to 1200 ° C.
High temperature furnace (RHF1600 Carbolite Gero ): up to 1600 ° C.
Tube furnaces ( Thermoficher tube and Carbolite tubular STF ): 4 furnaces up to 1200 ° C and 1600 ° C under controlled atmosphere (nitrogen and argon).
Synthesis hoods, cleaning and waste treatment.
Micrometric scales (Sartorius PRACTUM and CP3245): high precision weighting.
Device for measuring density by Archimedean thrust (Sartorius YDK03).
Air and vacuum drying ovens (Stabletemp Cole Parmer).
Ultrasound bath (Cole Parmer).

Room 6 - Characterization

Arizona (Computrac Vapor Pro XL BrookField AMETEK): measurement of the percentage of water in solid samples.
Optical microscope with camera (Eclipse Ci-L Nikon)
DSC-TGA (SDT Q600 TA Instruments): combined calorimetric and gravimetric measurement of TA at 1200 ° C in air, argon or nitrogen.
Double glove box (OMNI-LAB VAC): for syntheses, electrochemical measurements and characterizations under argon.
XRD (HighScore Malvern Panalytical) characterization software with 2020 database.
Tensile strength stand (SHIMPO FGS-100EL ITM Instruments Inc) in glovebox

Room 7 - Polymer processing

Rheometer (HR-3 Discovery TA analysis): study of fluid viscosity.
Mixer (Labo 100 Scamex Mixer): mixture of polymers.
Internal mixer (EXT30 / 26 Scamex) : mixture of polymers.
Calender (Teach Line CR72T Collin): calendering of polymer films.
High precision potentiometer (Keithley): measurement in 2 and 4 points.
Service hoods for synthesis and mixing of polymers.
UV-Vis spectrometer for polymer processing (XL-1000 UV crosslinker Spectronics Corporation).

Room 8 - Aqueous batteries

Pouch cell assembly line (MSK115, MSK120, MSK170, MSK180, MSK800 MTI).
BET (Gemini V Micromeritics): measurement of the specific surface of materials under nitrogen.

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