Facilities

Chromatographs

  • Gas chromatograph Agilent 6890N
  • Gas chromatograph Clarus 500 from Perkin Elmer equipped with FID and TCD detectors
  • Gas chromatograph Perkin-Elmer-900
  • Gas chromatograph Perkin-Elmer-900
  • Gas chromatograph SRI 310 equipped with HID (helium ionization detector)
  • Gas chromatograph SRI 8610C with FID detector
  • Gas chromatograph SRI 8610C with TCD and HID detectors
  • Gas chromatograph Varian 3800 with detector FID and TCD (2 p)
  • Gas chromatograph with mass spectrometer - Trace GC/DSQII-MS and thermodesorber - STD-1000
  • Liquid chromatograph FPLC AKTApurifier UPC 10 with UPC-900 UV detector and fraction collector
  • Liquid chromatograph FPLC Pharmacia with UV detector and  fraction collector
  • Liquid chromatograph HPLC LKB with UV-vis detector
  • Liquid chromatograph HPLC Specra Series P200 with UV 100 detector (Thermo Separation Products)
  • Liquid chromatograph with DAD detector and mass detection Agilent 1100 VL LC-MS (ionization ESI and APCI)
  • Liquid chromatograph with mass spectrometer - Shimadzu LC-MS-2010 EV
  • Photovac 10 S 50 - portable gas chromatograph with photoionization detector
  • Portable PID gas chromatograph - Voyager
  • SRI 8610 with FID and ELCD detectors (organochlorides analysis)
  • SRI 8610 with FID. TDC and PID detectors (photoionization)

Spectrometers

  • EDAX Orbis Micro-XRF Spectrometer
  • Electron Spin Resonance Q-Band Spectrometer - made by Technical University Wrocław
  • Electron Spin Resonance X-Band Spectrometer - made by Technical University Wrocław
  • FTIR spectrometer (Excalibur series Digilab) connected to sorption system
  • FT-IR Spectrometer Nicolet 380
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) Perkin-Elmer OPTIMA 2100DV - for chemical analysis
  • Shimadzu UV-1800 double-beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer operating at wavelength range of 190 to 1100 nm and achieving a resolution of 1 nm.
  • Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, Bruker 500 MHz
  • Spectrofluorimeter FluoroLog- Horiba Jobin-Yvon
  • Spectrometer FT-IR Nicole 6700 (full spectra range 50 - 12000 cm-1)
  • Spectrometer FT-IR Nicolet 6700 (spectral range 50 - 12000 cm-1)
  • Spectrophotometer UV/VIS Shimadzu PC2101.
  • Spectrophotometer UV-Vis Shimadzu UV 160A
  • X-ray fluorescence spectrometer EDXRF Epsilon 5

Surface area and pore size analyzers capable of physisorption and chemisorption

  • AUTOSORB-1 made by Quantachrome
  • CHEMBET 3000 made by  Quantachrome
  • Mercury intrusion porosimeter PoreMaster60 from Quantachrome Instruments 
  • Quantachrome Nova 2000 ", BET surface area and N2 adsorption  isotherms analyzer
  • Sartorius 4410 microbalance for Thermogravimetric gas and vapour sorption analysis 
  • Spring balance for quantitative sorption and desorption measurements (home made)
  • Surface area and pore size analyzers
  • Vacuum microbalance from CI Electronics
  • Vacuum microbalance, Sartorius
  • Water sorption analyser Hydrosorb 1000 from Quantachrome Instruments 

Equipment for catalytic tests 

  • Gas Chromatograph Hewlett-Packard 5890 II with FID and TCD detektors connected to catalytic apparatus
  • Gas chromatograph Hewlett-Packard, HP 6890, connected on-line with microreactors
  • Gas chromatograph Varian, CP-3800
  • GC Hewlett-Packard, ser.II A ,with TCD detector, connected to catalytic apparatus
  • GC Perkin Elmer Auto System XL with TCD detector connected to catalytic apparatus
  • High pressure fixed - bed flow reactor
  • High Pressure Reactors
  • Home made catalytic reactors with controlled gas feed.
  • PID Microactivity Reference - catalytic system for gas flow tests under atmospheric pressure
  • Pressure stainless steel and titanium reactors from Parr with volume varying from 100 mL to 2L, equipped with thermocouple, catalyst addition device, reflux/take off condenser, heater assembly and stirrer
  • UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

Thermal analysis and calorimetric equipment

  • Evolved gas analysis by mass spectrometry equipment - home made with RGA 200 Stanford Research Systems quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS EGA)
  • Home made TPD equipment
  • Microscal gas flow-through microcalorimeter
  • Simultaneous DSC/TG analyzer Netzsch 409 PC Luxx

Equipment for structural analysis

  • DMA 5000 M digital density meter for liquids from Anton Paar GmbH employs the oscillating U-tube principle for density determination with accuracy up to 5·10-6 g/cm3.
  • Equipment of analysis of nano and micro objects
  • Home made capillary viscometer with an automatic detection of suspension level via electric conductivity, useful for opaque or non-transparent substances
  • Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer LS 13 320 - Beckman Coulter Inc. The medium - liquid, Particle size range for measurement - 40nm - 2000 um.
  • Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer LS 13 320 - Beckman Coulter Inc
  • Myr V1-L viscometer
  • Powder X-ray Diffractometer  Siemens D5005 equipped with reaction chamber XRK900 or Grazing Incidence attachment
  • Powder X-ray Diffractometer X'PERT PRO MPD
  • Zeta Potential Analyser - ZetaPals - Brookhaven Instr.Corp.
  • Zeta Potential Analyser - ZetaPals - Brookhaven Instr.Corp. Particle size range for zeta potential measurement: 5nm - 50  m.
  • Zeta Sizer Nano ZS + automatyczny titrator - Multi Purpose Titrator MPT 2 -Malvern
  • Zeta Sizer Nano ZS ZEN3500. Analyser equipped in "the green" laser wave length 532nm. Measuring range for the measurement of the size of elementary entities: 0.6nm - 6 m for particles, 1-104 kDa for polymers. Particle size range for zeta potential measurement: 3nm - 10  m.
  • Zeta Sizer Nano ZS ZEN3600. Analyser equipped in "the red" laser wave length 633nm. Measuring range for the measurement of the size of elementary entities: 0.6nm - 6 m for particles, 1-104 kDa for polymers. Particle size range for zeta potential measurement: 3nm - 10  m.

Ultra-High-Vacuum systems for surface science analysis

  • Two multi-chamber analytic systems dedicated for surface and functional nanostructure studies STM/AFM/LEES/AES/XPS/UPS base pressure  <1x10-9  Pa

Microscopes

  • AFM -NT-MDT with "Olympus" optical microscope.
  • Fluorescence microscope Zeiss with TIRF, SARFUS with image analysis
  • Nikon fluorescence microscope with image analysis
  • Optical microscope (Leica) with image analysis
  • Ultra high resolution Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope JEOL JSM-7500F equipped with INCA PentaFETx3 EDS system and K575X Turbo Sputter Coater

Equipment for surface nanostructures and thin films analysis

  • Camera MotiCam with the Digital recording system (Motic Images Plus 2.0)
  • Drop Shape Analysis Method for Surface Tension and Contact Angle Measurements (Kruss DSA 100M)
  • du Noüy Ring Tensiometer, Lauda
  • Foamability and Foam Stability Test System for Aqueous Solutions - Anton Paar
  • High Performance Surface Purification System of Surfactant Solutions
  • High Speed digital camera Macrovis Weinberger 2000fps.
  • Maximum Bubble Pressure Tensiometer BPA-1S Sinterface for Dynamic Surface Tension Measurements
  • QCM-D Quartz Crystal Microbalance QS-E4 with Q-sense Window  module 401  L.O.T.- ORIEL GmbH & Co. KG
  • Spectroscopic Imaging Ellipsometer EP3- Nanofilm
  • The KSV (Finland) Surface Potential Sensor for Surface Potential Measurements by using vibrating Plate Method.

Equipment for environmental analysis

  • CEPA Mobile Laboratory (based on a fiat Doblo)
  • Gaseous and particulate contaminant sampling system
  • Portable Flue Gas Analyzer System - Testo 350XL/454
  • Portable Multicomponent FT-IR Gas Analyzer - Gasmet DX-4000
  • Portable VOC analyzer - MicroFID

Equipment for art and cultural heritage preservation

  • Acoustic emission measurement system for tracing fracturing in materials 
  • Apparatus for measuring flat band potentials using Roy method;
  • Apparatus for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical measurements
  • Climatic chamber Feutron Type 3423/15 
  • Climatic chamber KBF 240 APT.LINE, WTB Binder Labortechnik GmbH 
  • Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer (ESPI) for non-invasive detection and visualization of surface damage 
  • Laser scanner for measurement of the surface relief
  • Tritec 2000 Dynamic Mechanical Analyser for measurements of stiffness modulus and damping factor as function of temperature, frequency and time 
  • Universal assembly for electrochemical measurements from mtm-anko
  • Universal device for electrochemical measurements PGstat Autolab 302N made by Eco-Chemie
  • Universal device for electrochemical measurements Schlumberger-SOLARTRON equiped with digital potentiostat ECI 1286 and impedance analizer  FRA 1250
  • Universal device for electrochemical measurements ZAHNER IM6
  • Universal Testing Machine inspekt table 10 kN for static strength measurements

Equipment for theoretical calculations

  • Computer cluster
    • 32 units with Intel Dual Core processor (3.20 GHz, 1 GB RAM/core)
    • 1 unit with double quad core Intel Xeon (2.40 GHz, 2GB RAM/core)
  •  9-platform computer cluster:
    • one 4-processor node (Dual-Core AMD Opteron 8214, 2.2 GHz, 16GB RAM),
    •  three 2-processor nodes (Quad-Core AMD Opteron 3254, 2.2 GHz, 16GB RAM), one 2-processor node (Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2378, 2.4 GHz, 16GB RAM),
    •  four single-processor nodes (Six-Core AMD Opteron 2431, 2.4 GHz, 32GB RAM)
  •  Linux cluster consisting of 10 nodes with AMD Opteron processors:
    • 1 x 4 CPU x 2 cores - AMD Opteron 8214 (2.2 GHz) / 16GB RAM
    • 4 x 2 CPU x 4 cores - AMD Opteron 3254 (2.2 GHz) / 16GB RAM
    • 5 x 2 CPU x 12 cores - AMD Opteron 2431 (2.4 GHz) / 32GB RAM