Equipment & Testing Capabilities
C2E2 has assembled advanced energy materials and testing capabilities to support research ranging from energy conversion to fuels and power management. These capabilities are available to UConn faculty and students to support ongoing research in all facets of energy and energy related research. In addition, these services are offered to all industrial partners who might be engaged in energy or non-energy related research and who would benefit from these capabilities. We welcome industry to reach out to the C2E2 faculty for collaborative discussion regarding the research opportunities and testing capabilities that are available for integration into a clean energy research program.
Equipment for Engineering of Advanced Nanomaterials and Catalysts
• Reactive Spray Deposition Technology (RSDT) – 2 Systems for One-Step
Fabrication of Large-Scale Electrodes and MEAs for Fuel Cells,
Electrolyzers, and Batteries
• Easytube 3000, FirstNano, Chemical Vapor Deposition System
• Physical Vapor Deposition System
• Retsch PM 400 Planetary Ball Mill
• High Temperature Tube Type Furnaces - 8 units
• 1700 Degree Bottom-Loaded Large Furnace
Testing Capabilities
Analytical Instruments
• Thermo Fisher Scientific ARL QUANT’X ED-XRF Spectrometer
• Nicolet iS5 FT-IR Spectrometer with both Transmission and
ATR Capability
• Agilent 7890A(GC)/6890N (MS) Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
• Shimadzu UV-VIS 2600 Spectrophotometer
• Nicolet Magna 560 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
• Varian Inc. Micro GC
• Prolab Benchtop Mass Spectrometer
• Altimira Instruments “Benchcat” Catalyst Test System
• Anton Paar SurPASS Titration and Zeta Potential Analyzer
Microscopy
• FEI Quanta 250 FEG Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
• Zeiss Smart Zoom 5 Automated Digital Microscope
Thermal Analysis
• Netzsch STA 449 F3 Jupiter Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer -TGA and DSC
• Netzsch DSC 204HP High-Pressure Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Shimadzu TGA 50H High Temperature Thermogravimetric Analyzer
X-Ray Diffraction
• Bruker D8 Advance X-ray Diffractometer with High Temperature Stage
Instruments for Surface Area and Pore Size Distribution Analysis
• Micromeritics ASAP 2020 Automatic Chemisorption BET Analyzer
• Micromeritics AutoPore IV Mercury Porosimeter
• Micromeretics Saturn DigiSizer II
Electrochemical Equipment
Potentiostates/Galvanostates with EIS Capabilities
• Biologic VSP, Multi-channel Potentiostate/Galvanostate with
EIS - 2 Units
• Biologic HSP1005, 100 A Booster with EIS Capability
• Autolab PGSTAT302N, Ecochemie Potentiostat/Galvanostate,
Equipped with the BA Bipotentiostat and Frequency Response
Analyzer (FRA) Modules
• Solartron 1287 Potentiostat/Galvanostate with 1260 Impedance
Analyzer - 3 Units
• Solartron 20 A Booster
• Solartron ModuLab XM with FRA Module and 2 A booster
• Solartron 8-channel 1400 Cell Test System with 1470E FRA modules
• Pine Instrument Company Analytical Rotator - 2 Units
• Rotating Ring Disk Holders and Electrodes, Pine Instrument – Pt, Au
and Glassy Carbon Interchangeable Disks Electrodes
Equipment for Assembly and Testing Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
• Scribner/ Teledyne Associates 850g/890, 100 W Fuel Cell Test
Stands, 6 Stands
• 50 Bar High-Pressure Fuel Cell Test Stand, developed at UConn
• Electrolyzer Test Stand, developed at UConn
• Arbin FCTS 50H, 50 W Multichannel Fuel Cell Test Stand
• Advanced Measurements, Inc. 6 cell 50 W Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Test Stand
• Avtron Mfg Avtron Freedom Portable 100 kW Load Bank with Data
Collection Capability
• Systemic Automation Screen Printer
• Diablo D3163A, 5000A Real-time Gas Analyzer
Equipment for Assembly and Testing Rechargeable Batteries
• Arbin Multi-Channel Battery Testers - 2 units with total of 36 channels
