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 Perkin-Elmer AutoSystem XL ARNEL with TCD
• Gas chromatograph  Perkin Elmer Clarus 580 with FID and TCD
• 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
• Gas chromatograph SRI 8610 with FID and ELCD detectors (organochlorides analysis)
• Gas chromatograph 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
• FT-IR 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 spectral range 50 - 12000 cm^-1)
• Spectrometer FT-IR Nicolet 6700 (full spectral range 50 - 12000 cm^-1)
• Spectrophotometer UV/Vis Shimadzu PC2101 with Peltier termostating chamber
• Spectrophotometer UV/vis Lambda 25 Perkin Elmer with Peltier termostating chamber
• 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
• Quantachrome Nova 2000 ", BET surface area and N₂ adsorption  isotherms analyzer
• Sartorius 4410 microbalance for Thermogravimetric gas and vapour sorption analysis 
• Surface area and pore size analyzers
• Vacuum microbalance from CI Electronics
• Vacuum microbalance, Sartorius
• Water sorption analyser Hydrosorb 1000 from Quantachrome Instruments 

Equipment for biological research

• Autoclave Tuttnauer 5075 ELV (160 l) 
• Deep freezer
• CFX Connect Real-Time PCR
• New Brunswick Excella E24R incubator with shaker
  
• Preparative centrifuge Hettich RotoSilenta 630 RS - 6 x 1 l
• High speed centrifuge Hermle Z36HK

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

• Universal Testing Machine inspekt table 10 kN for static strength measurement
• Tritec 2000 Dynamic Mechanical Analyser for measurements of stiffness modulus and damping factor as function of temperature, frequency and time
• 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
• Acoustic emission measurement system for tracing fracturing in materials
• Laser scanner for measurement of the surface relief
• Aerosol monitor PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10 and TPM - DustTrak DRX 8533 (TSI Inc., USA)
• Laser particulate matter counters (0.3-1 i >1 μm) – DC1700 (Dylos Inc., USA)

Apparatus for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical measurements:

• 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 setup for testing the activity of the powder photocatalyst and photocatalysts immobilized on the membranes surfaces
• Flow tube photoreactor for testing immobilized powder photocatalysts;
• Analytic Jena SPECORD 40 UV-vis spectrophotometer  with attachements for multi-channel, flow and reflectance measurements;
• Chamber for UV irradiation.

Equipment for theoretical calculations

• Computer cluster of "Theoretical and experimental biocatalysis" group
  
  • 200 CPU cores and 6 GPU cores (NVIDIA CUDA GPU)
• Supercomputer miron of "Adsorption" group
  
  • 800 Pentium Xeon processors  (2.86 GHz to 3.65 GHz) and 2 GPU cores (NVIDIA CUDA GPU).
• Computer cluster of  "Quantum Chemistry - Research on Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions" group
  • 156 CPU cores