During Post-Doc (IITB)

a) Electron Microscopy: Trained to operate Carl Zeiss GEMINI Ultra 55 equipped with a field emission gun.

b) Jacomex Glove Box: Trained to operate Jacomex Glovebox for making 2032-coin cells

c) Neware Battery cycler & Biologic SP 300: Extensively used Neware battery cyclers for charge discharge processes, cyclic voltammetry, EIS, Mott Schottky and Biologic cycler and electrochemical work station SP300 and familiar with its software handling.

During PhD (CSIR-NCL)

a)Gas Chromatogram with FID and MS as detector

Organic compounds were analyzed using HP-5 and FFAP columns using Agilent Technologies GC (7890B) & Shimadzu (QP-Ultra 2010) GC-MS. Cleaning of Mass Spectroscope ion source chamber.

b) High Performance Liquid Chromatography 

Cyclohexane oxidation to adipic acid was standardized and analysed on HPLC using  RP-18 column and water: Methanol 9:1  with a phosphate buffer (0.001M) as the mobile phase and UV detector using Agilent HPLC.

c)Infrared Spectrometer with praying mantis assembly

Handled Perkin Elmer IR having a MCT detector and ZnSe detector and used for performing insitu pyridine/CO2 adsorption studies using Praying Mantis Assembly developed by Harricks Scientific Products Inc. 

d) X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

X-ray diffraction measurements were made using Phillips PAN analytical diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.5406 Å). 

e) Chemisorb 2720 

 Analysed heterogeneous catalyst for surface acidity/basicity on Micromeritics ChemiSorb 2720  instrument with Helium as the carrier gas using ammonia/CO2  molecules.

f)Fluorescence Spectrophotometer

Analysed interactions of surface hydroxyl groups of Metal with fluorescent Rhodamine-6g dye using PTI Quanta Master™.

g) Raman Spectrophotometer

Horiba JY make LabRAMHR800 spectrometer with a laser of 632nm was operated for characterization of Raman active vibrations. The average power used was 0.6mW.

h) X-ray Photoelectron Scpectroscopy

XPS studies were performed using VG Microtech Multilab ESCA 3000 spectrometer under Mg Kα X-ray source (hv = 1253.6 eV) and Thermo Kalpha+ spectrometer using Al Kα radiation (hv = 1486.6 eV) under expert guidance. The results were deconvoluted using XPSPEAK -41 software.

i) Electron Microscopy

TEM images were obtained on Tecnai F-20 instrument operating at 200kV. HR-TEM images were obtained on JEOL JEM F200. SEM images were obtained on Quanta 200 instrument equipped with energy dispersed X-ray detector (EDS) . These were obtained under expert supervision.