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Nanostructured Model Catalysts

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Equipment of the Research Group

Atomic Force Microscope Veeco Dimension 3100
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Simon Penner

  • operated in air
  • Contact, Tapping and Non-Contact Mode
  • Electric Force Microscopy (EFM)
  • Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM)
  • Surface Potential Microscopy/Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (SPM/KPFM)
  • Conductive AFM (cAFM)
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
  • pneumatic vibration isolation system, acoustic hood
Room: K025, Telephone: +43 512 58193
Catalytic Flow Reactor
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Simon Penner

  • Catalytic flow reactor with MS detection
  • room temperature to 1100 °C with LINN furnace
Room: 3EG32
Catalytic Quartz Microreactor with GC/MS Analysis
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Bernhard Klötzer

  • Re-circulating batch reactor
  • LabVIEW-controlled
  • GC/MS detection
  • Gas inlets for various oxidizing and reducing pretreatment gases, as well as alcohol and hydrocarbon reforming mixtures
  • Accessible temperature range: room temperature to 1200 °C (Linn High-Therm FRV-25/150/1100 furnace with PID control)
Room: 3EG32
Ellipsometer Horiba Jobin Yvon Ruby2000
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Simon Penner

  • single wavelength 532 nm (He-Ne-laser)
  • incident angle adjustable to 55° or 70°
Room: K107, Telephone: +43 512 507 58194
Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer Agilent Cary 670
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Simon Penner

  • MIR range 4000-600 cm-1
  • in situ reaction cell for spectroscopy at temperatures up to 1000 °C
  • FTIR/MS coupling for operando measurements
  • portable glove box for transfer to other analytical methods
Room: 3EG32
Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer Agilent Cary 670
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Simon Penner

  • MIR range 4000-600 cm-1
  • in-situ reaction cell for spectroscopy at temperatures up to 1000 °C
  • in-situ DRIFTS reaction cell Pike (temperature range: room temperature to 1000 °C)
Room: 3EG32
Furnace (2-Zone) Linn
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Simon Penner

  • up to 1250 °C (reactive gases)
Room: 3EG32
In situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer SPECS
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Bernhard Klötzer

Customized SPECS in situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer

  • can be backfilled with gas atmosphere up to 30 mbar
  • PHOIBOS 150 NAP hemispherical energy analyzer with 1D-DLD detector
  • µFOCUS 600 NAP monochromatic small spot X-ray source (Al Kalpha)
  • Flood gun FG 22/35
  • 4-axes manipulator adapted for laser heating
  • 4-axes kryo manipulator (can be colled down to 96 K)
  • 4-axes manipulator for in situ electrochemical measurements
  • mass spectrometer for operando measurements
Room: 3EG18
In-situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectrometer Zahner Elektrik
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Simon Penner

  • temperature range: 25 – 1200 °C
  • Au or Pt electrodes
  • frequency range:0.1 mHz – 1 MHz
  • in-situ treatment in various reactive gases possible (dry and moist conditions)
Room: 3EG32
Lab for Synthetic Preparation of Materials and Catalysts
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Simon Penner

  • wet and solid synthesis
  • preparation of powder & ceramic catalytic materials
Room: 3EG32
Muffle Furnace Nabertherm
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Simon Penner

  • up to 1200 °C (air)
Room: 3EG32, Telephone: +43 512 507 58006
Remote-Controlled High-Vacuum Apparatus
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Simon Penner

  • deposition of thin films by thermal evaporation
  • quartz crystal microbalance
  • Lesker Torus magnetron sputter source
    • 2" target diameter
    • 300 W RF power supplies for conducting and insulating targets
  • self-built ion beam sputter gun for metallic and oxidic targets
  • 3 single electron-beam evaporators for metallic targets
  • 2 triple electron-beam evaporators for metallic and multimetallic targets
  • template holders for electron microscopy and catalytic samples
  • preparation of intermetallic phases by comelting
Room: 3EG32, Telephone: +43 512 507 58194
Student Lab: Scanning Tunneling Microscope Nanosurf Easyscan
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Simon Penner

  • operated in air
  • including HOPG, Au, TaS2, MoS2 samples
Room: K025, Telephone: +43 512 507 58193
Surface Area and Pore Size Analyzer Quantachrome 2000
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Simon Penner

  • surface area and pore size determination of powder porous materials
  • static & dynamic according to BET and BJH methods
Room: L.03.163
Tensiometer TCD 1
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Simon Penner

  • for surface tension measurements
  • including Peltier element
  • for measurements 25-80 °C
Thermogravimetric Analysis Netsch STA 449 F3 Jupiter
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Simon Penner

  • thermal analysis
  • differential thermal analysis (DTA)
  • differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
  • -180 °C to 500 °C using Cu furnace
  • 30 °C to 1600 °C using SiC furnace
  • in situ and operando measurements using a Pfeiffer Prism mass spectrometer
Room: K025, Telephone: +43 512 507 58193
Ultra-High Vacuum Apparatus for Inverse and Real Model Catalyst Preparation, Characterization and Catalytic Testing
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Bernhard Klötzer, Leander Haug

  • Thermo-Fischer Alpha analyzer for LEIS/AES/XPS analysis
  • high-pressure quartz reactor cell (1 bar, 1000 °C) including GC/MS and MS analyses
  • load lock for multiple substrates
  • oxide and metal evaporators
Room: 3EG32
Ultra-High Vacuum Chamber for Single-Crystal Surface Science Studies
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Bernhard Klötzer

  • low-energy electron diffraction (LEED)
  • temperature-programmed desorption (TPD)
  • evaporators
  • Staib CM Analyzer for LEIS/AES/XPS Analysis
Room: 3EG32
UV-VIS Spectrometer Agilent Cary 60
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Simon Penner

  • wavelength range 290-1100 cm-1
Room: K107, Telephone: +43 512 507 58194
Volumetric Adsorption Apparatus
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Bernhard Klötzer

  • temperature range: 25 – 1100 °C
  • static or flowing conditions possible
  • MS detection
  • temperature-programmed oxidation (TPO), -reduction (TPR), -reaction (TPR) and -desorption (TPD) possible
Room: 3EG32
X-ray Diffractometer Stoe Stadi P (in the group of Hubert Huppertz)
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Huppertz, Hubert

For inquiries, please contact Prof. Hubert Huppertz from the Department of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.

X-ray diffractometer RigakuSmartLab
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Volker Kahlenberg, Simon Penner

  • Cu-Target (3kW)
  • choice between divergent (K-beta filter or CBO-alpha) and parallel beam alignment (Cross beam optic)
  • high-resolution theta/theta closed loop goniometer
  • 2-dimensional HyPix3000 high-energy-resolution semiconductor detector
  • Reactor X reactor chamber up to 1000°C
  • Rigaku high-temperature chamber up to 1500°C
  • Anton Paar high-temperature chamber up to 1200°C
Telephone: +43 512 507 58003
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Lab Thermo Scientific MultiLab 2000 (in the group of Alexander Menzel)
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Menzel, Alexander

  • Al/Mg Twin Anode
  • monochromated Al X-ray source
  • (angle-resolved) XPS, UPS, ISS, AES
  • ion gun for sputter-depth profiling
  • charge compensation via flood gun

For inquiries, please contact Prof. Alexander Menzel

Room: K107, Telephone: +43 512 507 58194