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• Linkam furnaces

  Linkam Furnaces can operate in a wide temperature range of 77 K up to 823 K with high precision of ±1 K - enabling temperature dependent characterisation of samples such as ceramics, alloys, high temperature polymers and geological fluid inclusions, with information capture via light microscopy, Raman and X-rays.

• Rotating furnace

  This rotating furnace has been used to observe the difference in ferrite phase fraction in steel during isothermal holds by in-situ XRD. The rotation capability of the furnace can be used in order to average grains in diffracting condition and thus obtain clean powder pattern data.

• Solvothermal capillary reactor

  A capillary reactor designed for in situ studies of solvothermal reactions has been used to study High Entropy Alloys (HEA) in nanoparticle form for catalytic reactions.

• Fast current induced heating devices for ribbon / bulk materials

  This device has been used to perform an in-situ XRD study of Cu-Zr-Al metallic glasses in order to map the phase evolution with respect to temperature.

• Electrochemical flow cell

  The Electrochemical flow cell has been used at both PETRA III and ESRF to follow the evolution of the aluminum oxide film thickness over time, and to study the anodic corrosion behavior of a single-crystalline film of IrO2.

• Electrochemical cell with tensile load frame

  This electrochemical cell within a tensile load frame has been used to study the lattice strain evolution during electrochemical hydrogen charging and mechanical loading of a duplex stainless steel.

• Microscope with integrated LED light source

  This optical microscope can perform 2D Surface Optical Reflectance observations, and is suitable for conducting surface characterisation research studies such as thermal catalysis, electrocatalysis, and corrosion science.

• Magnetic cryostat

  The magnet cryostat is dedicated to the investigation of single crystals, pre-aligned on sample holder for scattering on horizontal plane, with access to +/- 10 degrees of scattering angles parallel and perpendicular to the field direction. In Materials science it has been used for investigations of the quantum Hall effect on ZrTe5 semimetal.

• Reactor cell

  This reactor cell has been used to follow the complex mechanisms of cobalt oxides as well as Co nanoparticles synthetisation in an organic solvent, and study the evolution of CoO nano-assemblies in solution.

• Cutting tool X-cut

  This sample environment has been used for measuring the stress and temperature at and below the cutting edge of a TiAlNbN coated WC-Co tool - while the tool was cutting carbon steel.

• Compact uniaxial load frame

  Load frames are a standard lab tool, with in situ measurements offering the scope to provide new knowledge. One illustrative case is identifying deformation induced phase transformations. Another in situ example is assessing the lattice strain of different matrix phases and precipitates under various loads up to 5 kN.

• Aerodynamic Levitation (ADL) system

  This levitation setup with lasers, pyrometer, high-speed camera, mass-flow controller, acoustic excitation system and levitation chamber enables studies of the solidification of 2mm diameter melt samples - during the cooling process - at cooling rates ranging between 300 K/s and 1 K/s.

• Mobile ElectroMagnetic Levitation (EML) facility

  This Mobile ElectroMagnetic Levitator has a flat-panel detector, high-frequency generator, induction coil, pyrometer and video camera laser and has been used to study the solidification of HEA and ternary alloys.

• UFO chamber mini reactor

  The UFO chamber mini reactor is a high pressure reaction chamber (up to 50 bar) for conducting operando studies. It has been used to research the carbide formation on an iron-based catalysts.

• Magnetron sputtering and cathodic arc ultra-high vacuum deposition system

  This sample environment has been used for assessing the growth of coatings on a substrate, and deposition in multilayer neutron mirrors.