Facilities

State of the art facilities for adsorption studies

• Mercury porosimetry (Autopore IV) by Micromeritics: Characterisation of porous solids or powder of pore sizes ranging from 3 nm to 1000 microns
• Nitrogen adsorption (ASAP 2010) by Micromeritics: Characterisation of porous solids or powder of pore sizes ranging from 3.5 Angstrom to 100 nm

State of the art facilities for imaging

• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with EDAX/ESEM facilities by FEI Quanta 200

State of the art facilities for spectroscopy

• Solid state NMR with broadband probe for higher sensitivity by Bruker 400 ultra shield  Advance II
• Fluorescence spectroscopy by Horiba Jobin Yvon Fluoromax-4
• UV-Visible-Near IR by Shimadzu UV-3600, Shimadzu Corp. Japan
• FT-IR by SHIMADZU 8300, Shimadzu Corp. Japan

State of the art facilities for materials characterisation

• X-ray powder diffraction by Inel, Equinox 2000
• Magnetic measurement by variable sample magnetometry (VSM)
• Laser particle size analyser (Malvern Zetasizer 3)

State of the art facilities for materials preparation

• Hydrothermal bombs by Parr Instrument Co. USA
• Ash furnace by Vectar, UK
• Variable temperature (4 to 600C) incubator