Equipment

Apart from fully equipped laboratories with high temperature furnaces, catalysis reactors and GCs we have access to and expertise in the following techniques:

•  Surface area analysis equipment (BET) ^* [Micromeritics TriStar surface area and porosity analyzer] 

• Differential thermal analysis (DTA) ^*

•  Chemisorption^* [Micromeritics ASAP 2020 unit] 

• Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS) ^*

• Infra–red spectrometers^* [Bruker TENSOR 27 FTIR spectrometer]

• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) ^*

• Raman spectroscopy [Jobin-Yvon T64000 Raman spectrometer]

• X-ray diffraction equipment: powder and single crystal (XRD)

• Thermogravimetric analysis^* Perkin-Elmer STA6000 TGA

• Temperature programmed reduction (TPR) ^* [Micromeritics Auto Chem unit]

• Temperature Programmed desorption^*

• Portable GC-MS^*

• Solid State NMR spectrometer [Bruker 300 MHz]

(^* in house)

 Equipment housed in the Wits Microscopy Unit:

• Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

                      JEOL 100S TEM

                      Philips CM200 TEM (with EDX and GIF)

                      FEI Tecnai G2 Spirit TEM

• Scanning electron microscope (SEM)

                      JEOL 840 SEM

                      FEI Quanta 400 SEM

                      FEI FIB-SEM

• Atomic force microscope (AFM)