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EcoChemie AUTOLAB electrochemical analyzer

The Autolab PGSTAT128N Potentiostat/Galvanostat with FRA2 Impedance Module is a modular low-current, low-noise potentiostat/galvanostat that can measure or supply a maximum current of 250mA and voltage of 12V. The FRA2 module and FRA software provides both potentiostatic and galvanostatic electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement and analysis across a frequency range of 10μHz to 1MHz, measuring impedances from 1mΩ to 100GΩ. The PGSTAT12 and GPES electrochemical software can be used for a wide range of electrochemical studies including cyclic and linear sweep voltammetry, sampled DC and AC voltammetry, potentiostatic stripping analysis, chrono -amperometry, -coulometry, and -potentiometry and many other techniques.

Agilent AFM 5500 Atomic Force Microscope

The universal microscope base permits easy integration with an environmental chamber or an inverted optical microscope.
Large multi-purpose scanner: Scanning range 90 μm x 90 μm/ Z range 8 μm/ Vertical noise 0.5 Å RMS
Small scanner: Scanning range 9 μm x 9 μm/ Z range 2 μm/ Vertical noise < 0.2 Å RMS
Sample plate sizes: Kinematic mount translatable plate
Optics Navitar video camera
Vibration isolation Available
Controller: Input Ten 16-bit channels/ Drive 5 channels ± 215 V, 24-bit/ Output Four 24-bit channels, ± 10 V
Interface USB

Carl Zeiss A1 Axio Observer Optical Microscope

Carl Zeiss Axio Observer A1 microscope with phase contrast, fluorescence capabilities (for magnifications 400x, 100x)
Edmund Optics camera attached to the microscope can be used to take live pictures and videos from the camera port.

Computers

Four Dell Precision workstations running Windows 7 x64 with a total installed RAM of 96 GB, 6TB of HDD, all with dual monitors and equipped with Solidworks, MATLAB will be available for this project. In addition, this lab has the latest Molecular Dynamics capable workstations with NVIDIA Tesla C2050C processors and active COMSOL Multiphysics licenses available for this project. Two Dell Latitude 4000 series laptops are also available for data acquisition and data processing in this lab.

Essential lab hardware

  1. A 3' x 20' fume hood for materials fabrication

  2. Newport Vibration Isolation Table

  3. Vacuum Oven

  4. Barnstead EASYPure II water de-ionizer

  5. Toledo Precision Balance

  6. Hot plate with stirrer

  7. Freezer (VWR) maintains -20 deg C

  8. Fridge (VWR) 4 deg C

  9. Warner Instruments 3-axis motorized micropositioner   

  10. Warner Instruments 1-axis fine/ 2-axis coarse micropositioner

  11. NI PCI 6259 DAQ for with data acquisition with LabView

  12. Several DAQ boards from National Instruments

Shared equipment with Mechanical Engineering Department, VCU

  1. Atomate Chemical Vapor Deposition

  2. InVision Si 3D printer

  3. Stratasys FDM rapid prototyping machine

  4. VWR vacuum/temp oven