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Equipment for Energy Storage Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The list below is a complete listing of all the available equipment within the Electrochemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. This equipment can be made available to CalCharge Members for use in the areas of materials synthesis, characterization, testing, pre-‐ and post-‐test analysis, bulk characterization, cell making and testing, and advanced diagnostics, to name a few.
Main Category List of Equipment
Battery Cycling (2) 96 channel Maccor Series 4000 Battery Tester
Battery Cycling (4) 16 64 channel Maccor Series 4200 Battery Tester with 3 ovens
Battery Cycling 12 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat with impedance capability on each channel and low current option on 4 channels
Battery Cycling 16 channel MacPile potentiostat/galvanostat (12 channels galvanostatic, 4 channels potentiostatic)
Battery Cycling 16 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat with impedance capability on each channel
Battery Cycling 16 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat with impedance capability on each channel
Battery Cycling 16 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat with impedance capability on each channel, integrated with MBraun glove box for inert testing and heating chambers for elevated temperature testing
Battery Cycling 2 Associated Environmental System ovens
Battery Cycling 48 channel Arbin cycler
Battery Cycling 5 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat with impedance capability on each channel and 2 with 5 A power booster
Battery Cycling 5 channel VSP potentiostat/galvanostat, no impedance
Battery Cycling 8 channel Solartron 1470E Cell Test System
Battery Cycling 9 channel VMP3 potentiostat/galvanostat, no impedance
Battery Cycling Keithley 6514 System Electrometer, 6220 Precision Current Source, and 2182A Nanovoltmeter for Instrument calibration
Battery Cycling Maccor 4 channel 4200 cycler with 10V, 60A per channel (channels can be combined in parallel)...hasn't arrived yet but has been ordered
Bulk Characterization 1 Bruker D2, Phaser diffractometer
Bulk Characterization 2-‐camera custom-‐made 590 tilting goniometer from Rame-‐hart
Bulk Characterization Agilent Technology 6850 Network GC System (gas chromatography)
Bulk Characterization Beckman Coulter, LS230 particle size analyzer
Bulk Characterization FTIR SC6000 IR camera with InSb 5x objective (3-‐5 micron resolution)
Bulk Characterization
JEOL JSM-‐7500F, Field emission scanning electron microscope with SEI (secondary electron image) detector, LEI (lower secondary electron image) detector, LABE (low angle backscatter image) detector, RIBE (reflexive in-‐lens backscatter image) detector
Bulk Characterization JEOL-‐CP Cross-‐section polisher (sample prep for SEM)
Bulk Characterization Micromeritics TriStar II Surface Area and Porosity (BET-‐based)
Bulk Characterization Nikon optical microscope
Bulk Characterization
Philips X-‐Pert, diffractometer with X'Celerator detector, equipped with Anton-‐Paar HTK-‐1200N high temperature chamber and capillary spinner
Bulk Characterization PowerTome PC Microtome in glove box for TEM prep
Bulk Characterization
Thermo-‐Fisher, EDS (energy dispersive x-‐ray) detector with mapping capability, and STEM (scanning transmission electron) detector
Bulk Characterization Waters, gel permeation chromatography (GPC)
Cell Assembly 1 manual coin cell crimper
Cell Assembly 1 pouch cell laminator
Cell Assembly 2 Carver, Inc 3393 Hydraulic press with precision plates
Cell Assembly 2 manual coin cell openers
Cell Assembly 2 pneumatic coin cell crimper
Cell Assembly 3 cm x 4 cm punches
Cell Assembly 3 Polytron, homogenizers
Cell Assembly Aerosol spray booth for depositing thick film electrodes
Cell Assembly AmTech Ultraweld Welder for pouch cell assembly
Cell Assembly Draw down tables
Cell Assembly electrode making equipment (vacuum table, doctor blades etc.)
Cell Assembly Fuji Impulse Vacuum sealer for pouch cell assembly
Cell Assembly Innovative Machine Corporation (IMC) Model 17 Calendering machine
Cell Assembly International Rolling Mills (IRM) Calendering Machine
Cell Assembly Lithium evaporator
Cell Assembly MBraun gloveboxes
Cell Assembly screen printer
Cell Assembly spot welders
Cell Assembly tape caster
Cell Assembly Thinky ink/paste mixers
Cell Assembly Vacuum Atmospheres glovebox (double) with heated antechamber
Cell Assembly Vacuum Atmospheres gloveboxes
Chemical Analysis LA-‐ICP-‐MS
Chemical analysis Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (LA-‐ICP-‐MS)
Chemical analysis Newport OSM-‐400 UV-‐Vis Spectrometer
Chemical analysis UV-‐VIS transmission spectroscopy.
Chemical characterization
Two ultrafast fs laser systems (Ti:Sapphire fs and diode-‐pumped Yb fs laser), five ns UV-‐NIR lasers
Computation 4 12 core high-‐end desktop computers with computational software (Comsol, Matlab, etc.)
Computation 5 node, 60 core Cray computational cluster with GPU
Dry Electrode Testing Bridge Technology DC four point probe and stand
Dry Electrode Testing capillary pressure – saturation
Dry Electrode Testing Cathalon, pull tester
Dry Electrode Testing High-‐speed wafering saw
Dry Electrode Testing Instron 3344 2kN, tabletop mechanical testing system with LVDTs
Dry Electrode Testing ionic conductivity and membrane crossover
Dry Electrode Testing Permeability
Dry Electrode Testing Quad Group, adhesion-‐strength pull tester
Dry Electrode Testing thermal conductivity
Electrochemical Characterization
Numerous potentiostats/galvanostats, including FEMTOSTAT (Gamry) Instruments, EG&G Impedance Analyzer, RRDE system (Pine Inst. Co), SMAL battery cyclers (Astrol )
Environmental Enclosures
Controlled atmosphere working area suitable for experimental work in O2/H2O-‐free environment.
Environmental enclosures VAC Double Module Glovebox (1x)
Environmental enclosures VAC Single Module Glovebox (2x)
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing 2 recirculating chillers
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing
4 fuel-‐cell/flow-‐battery test stands including impedance capabilities with multiple inlet gases, liquid pumps, and loads up to 120 A, 600 W and power supplies ranging up to 80 A
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing 6 Biologic EIS channels, 4 with 5A current booster
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing Controlled temperature silicone oil bath
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing Proton OnSite S-‐10 hydrogen generator (4.7 SLPM)
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing walk-‐in fume hood
Flow Battery and Fuel Cell Testing zero-‐air generator
Interfacial Characterization Agilent, ScanningProbe Microscopy
Interfacial Characterization JY Horiba, Micro-‐Raman spectroscopy and imaging
Interfacial Characterization Neaspec, Near-‐Field IR spectroscopy and imaging
Interfacial Characterization Nicolet Nexus 670, FTIR spectroscopy and microscopy;
Interfacial Characterization Nicolet, FTIR Continuum Microscope
Interfacial Characterization Park Scientific, Molecular Imaging
Interfacial Characterization Woolham, Spectroscopic ellipsometry
Materials Synthesis 1 CEM Microwave oven
Materials Synthesis 1700C hydrogen atmosphere reducing tube furnaces
Materials Synthesis 2300C vacuum hot-‐press
Materials Synthesis 3-‐zone tube furnace
Materials Synthesis 900C testing furnaces in a walk-‐in fume hood
Materials Synthesis Attritor mill
Materials Synthesis box furnace with heating capability up to 1200C
Materials Synthesis box furnace with heating capability up to 1500C
Materials Synthesis centrifuges
Materials Synthesis convection ovens
Materials Synthesis Cyclone spray-‐drier
Materials Synthesis equipment for spray pyrolysis (ultrasonic nozzles, syringe pumps, peristaltic pumps)
Materials Synthesis Jar mills
Materials Synthesis planetary mill and milling media
Materials Synthesis several box furnaces and tube furnaces
Materials Synthesis tube furnace with heating capability up to 1100C
Materials Synthesis vacuum ovens
Surface analysis Nicolet FTIR Continuum Microscope
Surface analysis Nicolet Nexus 670 FTIR Spectrometer
Surface characterization Far-‐field FTIR microscopy at 2-‐5 μm resolution.
Surface characterization Far-‐field FTIR spectroscopy in transmission, reflectance and ATR modes.
Surface characterization Far-‐field Raman spectroscopy and imaging
Surface characterization
Four Czerny-‐Turner spectrometer systems coupled to high sensitivity ICCD UV-‐Vis-‐NIR detectors
Surface characterization In situ spectro-‐electrochemical ellipsometry
Surface characterization JY Horiba Group Labram Microscope
Surface characterization Near-‐field FTIR surface spectroscopy and imaging
Surface characterization NeaSNOM System Platform, NeaSpec
Surface characterization Spectrometers/detection modalities
Surface characterization SPM characterization of electrochemical systems under controlled atmosphere
Surface characterization SPM Experimental Platform – STM; AFM, MAC and Acoustic Modes
Surface characterization Woolham Spectroscopic Ellipsometer
Surface sampling Laser systems
Test Stands Laser beam delivery/sampling platform
Test Stands Laser sampling stage under controlled atmosphere.
Thermal Characterization Columbia Scientific Industries accelerated rate calorimeter
Thermal Characterization Diablo Analytical, Real-‐time gas-‐analyzer
Thermal Characterization dilatometer
Thermal Characterization Mettler Toledo Karl Fischer water analyzer
Thermal Characterization Perkin-‐Elmer Diamond DSC Differential scanning calorimeter
Thermal Characterization
Perkin-‐Elmer Optima 5300DV inductively coupled plasma – optical emission spectrometry
Thermal Characterization PFEIFFER VACUUM OmniStarTM mass spectrometer,
Thermal Characterization
TA Instruments SDT Q600 Thermal gravimetric analyzer (connected to mass spectrometer)
Transport Properties
Electronic equipment for standard characterization of charge transfer and mass transport phenomena in electrochemical systems. (fA current range)