Facilities

MATERIALS SYNTHESIS & PROCESSING EQUIPMENT

    • Fully serviced fume cupboards
    • Chemical vapour deposition reactors up to 1400°C
    • Plasma etcher
    • Variable speed spin coater
    • Automated gravure coater
    • Bath and tip-ultrasonicator
    • Centrifuge
    • Acid-resistant chemical reactors (5 L) for upscaling Graphene synthesis
    • Computer controlled pulsed UV light source

CHARACTERIZATION EQUIPMENTS FOR ENERGY, CHEMICAL SEPARATIONS AND MICRO-/NANO-FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS

  • Multichannel BioLogic Potentiostat (currently 4 active channels installed)
  • Solar simulator
  • Newport vibration isolation table with Genelyte Mini probe station from EmCal
  • Ocean Optics UV-vis spectrometer
  • Agilent B2902 A and Keithley 6430 sub femto-Amp SMU
  • High pressure (20 bar) dead-end membrane filtration
  • Packed bed adsorption columns
  • Nikon Eclipse Ti inverted microscope
  • C2V Portable Gas Chromatograph
  • Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope (IC Nano S2 system): Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) acquires topographic images of surfaces in electrolyte solutions. Images are created by scanning a (glass or quartz) nanopipette probe over the sample whilst measuring the ion current through the pipette. As the probe approaches the sample surface the ion current decreases; the Z position is recorded when the ion current has dropped by a pre-defined amount. We are interested in characterizing nanoscale ion transport utilzing this state-of-the-art equipment.
  • Bose Electroforce 3200 Seris III Test Instrument
  • Probe Station (Signatone)
  • Spectral Analyzer and Digital Oscilloscope (Rhode and Schwarz)
  • High-speed camera (5 megapixel @1000 frames/second)

MONASH MICRO IMAGING has state-of-the-art optical microscopy facilities that are widely used by our researchers.

MELBOURNE CENTER FOR NANOFABRICATION is a user-paid facility frequented by our researcher for using photolithography, focussed ion beam cutting and milling, and e-beam deposition.

MONASH CENTER FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY housing several scanning electron and transmission electron microscopes is also heavily used.

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