Our facilities

Materials preparation and electrochemical testing

• MBraun Glove-boxes (3), Germany
• MTI High temperature furnace / Split tube furnace, USA
• High temperature furnace (3)
• Neware Battery Testers (500 channels)
• Land battery Testers (80 channels)
• CH Instruments Electrochemical Workstations (6) , USA
• Rotating Disk Electrode connected to a Bipotentiostat, Pine Research Instrumentation
• Nano NC Electrospinning/spraysystem/Electrospinning machine
• WS-30 gas sensing tester
• Ball mill equipment
• Microsolar300
• Preekem microwave
• GC - 2014 Shimadzu Japan
• BioLogic VMP3 France
• Freeze Dryer 
• Bioline incubator shaker 8500
• Humidity chamber(2)
• MTI Pressing machine (2)
• Hohsen hand operated coin-cell crimper, Japan
• High Speed Centrifuge H1650, H1850 (2)
• BUCHI 461Rotavapor water bath, Switzerland
• BUCHI mini spray dryer, Switzerland
• Unisonics Ultrasonic cleaner/probes/horns
• BRANSON digital sonifier
• Vacuum drying ovens 
• Mettler Toledo Lab Balances
• Hot plates
• Westing House Fridge

Chemical/microstructral characterisation

• Raman spectrometer

• UV-VIS spectrometers

• Atomic Force Microscope [AFM] with nanomanipulator

• MicroActive for 3 Flex

• UNICO 1100 spectrophotometer
   
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [NMR] Agilent 500 MHz 
   
• Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscope

Physical characterisation

• X-ray diffraction [XRD] In-situ battery test Bruker

• Scanning Electron Microscope [SEM]

• Simultaneous TG-DTA Q600 Q2000

• Transmission electron microscopy [TEM]

• University of Sydney Electron Microscope Unit (opens an external site)

• Electron Microscope Unit at the University of New South Wales (opens an external site)

• University of Wollongong Electron Microscopy Centre (opens an external site)

Theoretical Analysis

• High-Performance Computer Workstation

• Material Studio