Facilities
Facilities and Equipment
Room 308
Ultra High Precision Charger
UHPC Cyclers
5 Vertical Units make a 100-channel Ultra High Precision Charger.
Novonix System
Novonix cycling systems provide an additional 40 ultra high precision coulometry channels.
Cell Testing Facility
Cell Chargers
Expanded Cell testing facility now has 5 Neware cyclers for a total of 480 channels!
Cell Chambers
3 temperature chambers are enclosed in every JustRite cabinet. Photo above also shows 4 other temperature-controlled boxes.
Room 312
Cell Testing Facility
High Precision Charger
Jessie preparing cells on the HPC software.
Temperature Controlled Chambers
Chris changing the temperature on one of the chamber controllers.
Maccor Cycler
Jian connecting cables on the Maccor System.
Neware Cyclers
Neware Cell charger station with temperature chambers - 192 channels.
192 more Neware channels with temperature chambers.
Microcalorimetry
Battery Microcalorimeter
Laura removing a cell from the microcalorimeter.
Sample
A pouch cell is enclosed in each capsule as shown to the right.
Dahn Headquarters
The Captain's Chair
Jeff helping lab members John and Dan.
Workspace
Minds at Work
Nupur, Jian and David discussing electrolyte additives in non-pandemic times!
Students
Colby and Chris managing their projects.
ARC
Room 313
313A - Electrolyte & Electrolyte Additive Lab
Double Glove Box
Kathlyne preparing electrolytes in one of the double glove boxes we have.
Sample Characterization
TA-Instruments SDT-Q600 with RGA
Madeleine, summer student setting the TGA.
G20 Compact Titrator
C30 Coulometric Karl Fischer Titrator
Lina, summer student, using the titrator
Two GC-MS Instruments. Left one Dedicated for Liquid Analyses and the Right one for Gas Analyses
In-situ Volume Measuring Systems
Furnaces for sample syntheses
313B - Characterization Lab
X-ray Diffractometer
X-ray Sample
Dan setting up the XRD.
Particle Size Distribution Analyzer
60MHz Benchtop NMR and Benchtop Phenom SEM
Room 314
Solid-State Battery Lab
Solid-State Preparation Glove Box
Planetary and Ball Mills used for grinding materials to sub-micron diameters.
Room 316
Pouch Cell Station
Pouch Cell Filling Glove Box
A closer look at the workspace
Electrolyte-filled Cell prepared for evacuation/sealing
Impedance Spectroscopy
48-Channel EIS Measurement Station
Room 317B
Chicken Coop
The Chickens in their Coop
Former graduate students of the Dahn group
Room 321
Physical Properties Lab
Ultrasonic Scanning Instrument
Differential Thermal Analysis
Helium Pycnometer and BET machine
Room 322
Positive Electrode Material Synthesis Lab
Continuous Stirred-tank Reactor
CSTR Tank
New Eppendorf CSTR
Room 323
Cell Abuse Lab
Nail Penetration Testing Machine
Nail test outcome - Cell may or may not go out of control and combust
Laser Cell Thickness
UCV Cell Storage
Room 217
Coin Cell and Electrode Fabrication
Coin Cell Crimper
Roller
B2
Muffle and Tube Furnaces
Atmospheric Muffle furnaces
Tube Furnaces, choice of gas atmosphere
Dry Particle Fusion Machines
Lab-Built Dry Particle Fusion Machines (by our machinist)
B9
CVC Sputtering System
CVC Sputtering System
Inside view of CVC chamber after depositing aluminium
B12
Cell Testing Facility
Neware cyclers
Neware cell cyclers (200 channels) and temperature chambers.
FRA cycler
FRA cycler with 24 channels
Basement
Machine Shop
Simon Trussler provides us with machining services.
Student Machine Shop
Students may use the student shop for their projects.
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
