Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Equipment

Methods available at our department

• Powder X-Ray Diffraction, (XRD)
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, (NMR)
• Solid State, Magic Angle Spinning NMR, (MAS-NMR)
• MAS-NMR Using Cross Polarisation and Double Rotation Technique, (CPMAS/DOR)
• Multiple Quantum MAS NMR and Double Resonance MAS NMR (MQ MAS NMR /TRAPDOR)
• Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy, (ESR)
• Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy in the Visible and Ultra Violet region, (DRS/UV-VIS)
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy, (FS)
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, (FT-IR)
• Gas Chromatography, (GC)
• Liquid Chromatography with DAD or RI detection, (LC)
• Gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry, (GC-MS)
• Liquid Chromatography with ion trap Mass Spectrometry, (LC-MS/LC-MSn)
• Temperature Programmed Desorption, (TPD)
• Particle Sizer
• Freeze Drying
• Spin Coater
• Langmuir-Blodgett apparatus
• Pervaporation, Pertraction, Dialysis, Evapomeation
• Nano-, Ultra- and Microfiltration
• Gas Adsorption/Desorption, (Omnisorp)
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis, (TGA)
• Ultra-High Vacuum System, (UHV)
• High Pressure Reactors, Vapour Phase Reactors and Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Methods available at other departments

• Atomic Force Microscopy, (AFM) (Dept. of Chemistry)
• Hyper Rayleigh Scattering, Raman Spectroscopy, (HRS-Raman) (Dept. of Chemistry)
• Hyper Rayleigh Scattering, Nd/YAG Laser, (HRS-Nd/YAG) (Dept. of Physics)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy, (SEM) (Institute of Metallurgy)
• Transmission Electron Microscopy, (TEM) (Institute of Metallurgy)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Emmission Spectroscopy, (ICP) (Bodemkundige Dienst of Belgium)
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, (AAS) (Facultaire Didactiek)
• Visible and Ultra Violet Spectroscopy, (UV-VIS) (Facultaire Didactiek)