Material and technical background of the Centre NANOPIN
All five partner institutions forming the Research Centre for Nanosurface Engineering "NANOPIN" have long-term experience in the area of the research program of this centre. The Advanced Technology Group has more than 10 years of experience in the research and development of new technologies, materials, testing and also as an educational and certification institution in this area. The responsible researcher, Dr. F. Peterka is also director of the Division of TiO2 photocatalysis founded at the ATG. The Institute of Inorganic Chemistry AS CR is a respected institution in fundamental and applied research in inorganic chemistry. The group at J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry AS CR has relevant experience and experimental equipment for photochemistry and photocatalysis, advanced inorganic syntheses, materials characterization and electrochemistry. The Institute of Chemical Technology is long-acting in the research of photocatalytic degradation of environmental pollutants and of microbiology of drinking and waste water. Technical university Liberec has experiences in the technology of plasma deposition of thin films. For the projected activities the Centre is fully equipped with the basic laboratory, administrative and logistic support. Following instruments are available for research works on the project at individual institutions. Highlighted items are new instruments obtained from the budget of the centre.
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Advanced Technology Group, s.r.o.
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- Universal four-axis scanning manipulator with data control and data acquisition software
- XRD laboratory including X-ray analysers ANDREX a Philips
- Apparatus for radiometric measurements
- Multichannel analyser ORTEC
- Hardness tester
- Apparatus for image processing and analysis Lucie with high resolution digital camera
- Programmable laboratory furnace up to 1200 °C
- Mechanical workshops and engineering support for the development of laboratory testing photoreactors and measuring apparatuses
- GC/MS Varian Saturn 2100T
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Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.
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- Electron microscope Philips - TEM 80kV
- Electron microscope Philips XL 30 CP - SEM with analyser EDAX and element mapping
- Electron microscope JEOL JEM-3010 - HRTEM, 300kV with EDAX and ED analysers
- Simultaneous thermal analysis Netzsch
- XRD powder diffractometer Siemens D5005
- XRD powder diffractometer PANalytical X“PertPRO with RTMS detector
X“Celerator, temperature cell Anton Paar HTK16 and microdiffraction (monocapillary
output diameter 0.1 mm)
- VIS spectrometer ColorQuest
- Measurements of specific surface area and porosity Coulter 3100
- Measurements of specific surface area and porosity Quantochrome Nova4200
- Particle size measurement 0.1nm - 10 µm Malvern Zen 1600
- Supercritical extraction by carbon dioxide CPD7501 Quorum Technologies
- Laboratory precipitation apparatuses
- Laboratory furnaces to 1300 °C and 1800 °C
- Apparatus for measurement of photocatalytic activity of transparent pigments
- Porosimeter Quantochrom NOVA 2000
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J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.
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- Set up for precise kinetic measurements of photocatalytic reactions at monochromatic illumination (λ = 365 nm) in home made quartz batch photoreactors
- UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy (Perkin-Elmer Lambda 19) for absorption and diffuse reflectance measurements in the whole region
- HPLC (Merck-Hitachi) for monitoring of photodegradation processes with simultaneous detection of absorption and fluorescence spectra
- Automatic titrator Titralab 856 (Radiometer) allowing kinetic studies at controlled constant pH
- The synthetic set-up includes several high-vacuum lines (turbomolecular pump Balzers), autoclaves (Berghof), preparative ultracentrifuge, spin-coating and vibration-free dip coating apparatus, etc.
- Basic electrochemical instrumentation (two potentiostats PAR-EgaG and Autolab Pgstat 30, and electrochemical quartz microbalance (EQCM-5510, PAS). All these techniques are currently interfaced to an Ar-filled glove box (Labstar 50, M. Braun, GmbH)
- Apparatus for adsorption measurements (N2, Kr, Accusorb 2100 E, Micrometricis)
- ESCA (Scienta 310, Gammadata)
- SEM (Jeol, JSM 5500 LV)
- Scanning probe microscopy (Topometrix 2010 a Nanoscope III)
- X-ray diffractograph (Siemens D5005)
- FTIR spectroscopy (Nicolet Impact 410)
- Automatic sampling system for TOC analyzer Shimadzu
- HPLC system Agilent 1200
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Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
Faculty of Chemical Technology
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- Mass spectroscopy, GC/MS, LCQ
- Preparative HPLC
- Volumetric adsorption methods (ASAP)
- Physical and BET methods
- Adsorption balances
- Photocatalytic activity testing reactors
- UV-VIS spectroscopy
- Supercritical extraction by carbon dioxide (SFE)
- Apparatuses for microbiological and hydrobiological analysis
- Optical microscope with camera
- Thermostats
- UV lamps
- Autoclaves
- pH meters, conductometers, potentiostats, oxymeter, gas mass flow recorder
- Autosampler for HPLC system Shimadzu LC-10ADvp
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Technical University Liberec
Faculty of Engineering
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- Planar vacuum reactor for chemical deposition of thin layers with RF plasma
- Downstream vacuum reactor with auxiliary equipment for microwave assisted chemical deposition of thin layers
- Instrumentation for barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure
- Set up for the measurement of contact angles
- Micro hardness set up ZWICK
- Software for image analysis Lucie
- Scanning electron microscope VEGA TS 5130
- Environmental scanning electron microscope AQUASEM
- Infrared spectrometer SPETRUM ONE NTS for near IR region
- Infrared spectrometer SPETRUM ONE for middle IR region
- UV/VIS spectrometer 916 GBC
- Optical profilometer FRT
- AFM microscope FRT
