Equipment and Techniques

• sample preparation
  - vacuum/inert gas techniques (Schlenk lines)
  - two gloveboxes with inert gas atmosphere
  - sol-gel preparation
  - hydrothermal synthesis in high-pressure reactors
  - high temperature synthesis (tube furnaces, chamber furnaces up to 1550 °C, induction furnace up to 2200 °C)
  - sonotrode
  - milling (planetary ball mill, vibration mill)
  - pill presses (protective atmosphere, hot)
  - wet-chemistry lab and overnight lab
• thermal analysis
  - DSC 131 (SETARAM)
  - TG/DTG (LINSEIS)
• X-ray diffraction
  - powder X-ray diffractometers (Huber Guinier cameras, CuK_α1 and other wavelengths)
  - powder X-ray diffractometer with high and low-temperature accessory (STOE Stadi-P with Debye-Scherrer geometry)
  - powder X-ray diffractometer with high-temperature accessory (STOE Stadi-P with theta-theta geometry)
  
• electron microscopy
  - via the center for micro and nanoanalytics
• magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  - solid-state NMR spectrometer, Bruker Avance Neo 600 MHz (several static and MAS probeheads, diffusion accessory, variable temperature)
  - solid-state NMR spectrometer, Bruker Avance II 300 MHz (several static and MAS probeheads, variable temperature)
  - NMR spectrometer, 60 MHz, Tecmag Lapnmr, Varian EM360
  - ESR X-band CW spectrometer (low-temperature, goniometer)
• 3D printing
  - several printers including printers for PEEK, ULTEM, FEP and ZrO₂
• Impedance spectroscopy
  - Novocontrol Neisys
• UV VIS spectroscopy
  - Ocean optics USB4000 with integrating sphere and different light sources (LEDs from 270 - 700nm, Xe-arc lamp)
  - quantum yield, diffusion reflection spectroscopy