Lab Gallery

Struers Tegramin polisher equipped with a Lavamin automatic cleaning system.

MDS Nordion GammaCell 220 Excel Colbalt-60 irradiator.

BioLogic VSP300 6-channel potentiostat.

HEKA ELProScan-1 scanning electrochemical probe microscope (SEPM) equipped with a bi-potentiostat.

Instrumentation for in-house ultramicroelectrode, nanoelectrode, and micro/nano pipette fabrication including: P-2000 G Sutter Instrument laser pipette puller, Narishige PC-10 and PP-830 vertical pipette pullers, and HEKA microelectrode polishers. 

Analytical instrumentation including a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES), and a digital microscope. 

Inert Environmental Electrochemical Station equipped with a Solartron potentiostat.

All students gain training and hands-on experience with some analytical surface science instrumentation located at Surface Science Western, including scanning electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.