Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources

Test and Characterization 

Capability to develop state of the art battery management systems for cell systems, provide accurate state of charge and discharge. Conducting studies on fundamental process that degrade battery cells, battery testing methods. Specific equipments include:

  • Multi Channel Battery Testers, ±10 V per channel.
  • Multi Channel Battery Testers, ±5 V per channel.
  • Electrochemical Workstations, SI 1260 and SI 1287, Solartron; Interface 1000 and Reference 3000, Gamry; 600E, CHI.
  • Arbin BT2043, -10 V to 10 V with auxiliary channels.
  • Arbin BT2003, High current.
  • Thermogravimetric Analyzer.
  • Karl Fischer Water Content Titration Coulometer.

Battery Assembling

Capability to assemble elaborate coin cells, solid state batteries, pouch cells.

  • Glove Boxes: Preparing liquid electrolyte; Assembling coin cell; Preparing solid electrolyte; Assembling solid state batteries; Assembling pouch cell batteries.
  • Pouch Cell Assembly Machine: Tab Welding; Pouch cell hot sealer.
  • Electrode Preparing Machine: Conditioning mixer; Electrode casting; Hot rolling press; Precision Dis Cutter.

Materials Preparing

A range of equipment is available to synthesize the electrode materials as well as different electrolytes. Specific equipment includes:

  • High Energy Planetary Ball Milling Machines (PM 100, Retsch), equipped with different kinds of jars (Stainless steel and zirconium oxide) and different size of jars (50 ml, 100 ml and 500 ml).
  • High Energy Vibratory Ball Mill Mixer (Mixer/Mill 8000M, Spex) with different kinds of jars (Hardened stainless steel and zirconium oxide).
  • Aerosol Spray Pyrolysis Apparatus, wherein solutions of precursor salts are nebulized and then dried and pyrolyzed in the furnace reactor within a few seconds. This method can be used to create a wide variety of complex, multi-component particles with sizes in the 50 nm to 5 μm range.
  • Electrospinning Apparatus, which uses an electrical charge to draw very fine (typically on the micro or nano scale) fibres from a liquid.
  • Rotary Evaporator.
  • Sputter Coater (108, Cressington); Cool, fine-grain sputtering can be achieved with a very efficient dc magnetron head. A quick-change target method allows a range of metals to be used.
  • Spin-Coater (KW-4A, Chemat Technology), which can be used to precisely and uniformly deposit metal oxide thin films, polymer coatings and metal organic thin films
  • Tube Furnaces with different gas atmosphere (Ar, N2, H2, Ar/H2, O2, Air, etc), which can get a temperature as high as 1200 ºC.
  • Electric Meffle Furnaces with an accessible temperature as high as 1600 ºC.
  • Vacuum Ovens: Vacuum Drying Oven; Across Forced Air-Drying Oven.
  • Sonic Ruptor Ultrasonic Homogenizer, which can prepare an emulsion down to 1/100 of a micron, homogenize “immiscible” liquids, accelerate enzymatic and chemical reactions, disperse solids in liquids and degas liquids.
  • Centrifuge, which can separate the nanoparticles from the liquid efficiently.
  • Digital Vortex Mixer
  • Low Speed Diamond Saw.
  • BUEHLER EcoMet 30 Single Manual Grinder Polisher.
  • IsoMet Low Speed Cutter.
  • IntelliRay600 UV Lamp, a compact microprocessor-controlled UV flood curing system.
  • Tube Sealing Instruments.

Special Environmental Conditioning/Accelerating testing

Capability to benchmark and stress test batteries through a wide range of environments, including different temperatures and humidity.

  • Temperature Cycling, Low temperature oven.
  • Humidity Cycling.
  • Temperature/Humidity Cycling.

Others

  • Ammonia Electrochemical Compression System
  • Water Electrochemical Dehumidification System

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