Support Facilities & Equipment

Three labs: wet, dry and characterisation	Available	With basic equipment such as hot plate, balances, selection of glassware, pestle and mortar, tweezers, spatulas etc.
Thermo FT-IR Microscope	Available	FT-IR with mapping capabilites
Yves Jobin Micro XRF	Available	50keV - 100μm spot size
Perkin Elmer UV spectrometer	Available
Wet O2 free and H2O/O2 free Ar glove boxes	Available	Please indicate a glove box is required in the proposal
Renishaw Raman Microscope	Available	Micro-raman system with mapping capabilities. Red and blue lasers.
Zeiss AxioVision Optical Microscope	Available
Nikon Polarised Microscope	Available
Fume cupboard	Available
Microbiological safety cabinet (class 2)	Available
Grinding/Polishing machine	Available	Range of polishing grades available
Cutting machine	Available	Water cooled
Cryo Microtome	Available	A cryotome is avaialble in lab 92, some training is available.
Pellet Press	Available	8 and 13mm dies
Tube Furnaces	Available on request	Advance notice required.
Upright Furnace in Air	Available	Up to 1500C
Clean Room	Available	Balance and Microscope installed
Fridge/ Freezer (-20 C)	Available	Access to a -80 freezer available on request
Low level Radiochemistry Lab With Glove Bag, mini centrifuge	Available	Please contact beam line scientist for more info.

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