Facilities

Laboratory

1060 sq ft of wet lab space with two six ft fume hoods

Computer

11 updated personal computers

Office

~150 sq feet of office space for PI; ~300 sq feet of
office space for graduate students

Major Equipment:


Fuel Cell Test Station Scribner 850C integrated PEM fuel cell test station (hydrogen and direct methanol) with Fuel Cell software		Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Solartron electrochemical impedance spectrometer (EIS) (1260 impedance analyzer, 1287 electrochemical interface, Zplot software) with four custom made electrode cells (open and closed system 4 and 2 electrode cells)


Environmental Chamber Tenney environmental chamber with high temperature/humidity control (ranging from 25-200°C and 0-100%RH) – integrated with vapor permeation and EIS		Dynamic Vapor Sorption Dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) (Munters Corp.) with Cahn microbalance


FTIR Spectrometer Nicolet Nexus 6700 FTIR spectrometer equipped with multi and single-bounce ATR attachments (Specac)		Tube Furnace
Ovens:

Three vacuum ovens, with two pumps		Convection oven

HP 5989B mass spectrometer with HP 5890 gas chromatograph and HP 1090 liquid chromatograph
Quantachrome multipycnometer
Buchi rotovapor, six stir/hot plates, three balances (two micro-balances), sonicating bath, and other wet chemistry accessories

Access to:

DSC, TGA, GPC, Electro-Spinning, Heat Press, Plasma reactor, High-Pressure Supercritical Extraction (Chem Eng)

FEI/Phillips XL30 Field Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (FEESEM) equipped with EDAX Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) system (Materials Eng)

Spin Coater (Materials Eng)

NMR (Chemistry)

TEM, SAXS, and ultra-cryo-microtome (UPenn)

Other Resources:

The chemical engineering department at Drexel has its own machine shop with a full time technician.