Special technical equipment

Powder synthesis

• Glove boxes
• Schlenk line
• Spray dryers for precursors (air or inert gas)
• Flame spray pyrolysis
• Pyrolysis furnaces
• Rotary kiln

Powder preparation

• Preparation equipment (milling and homogenization) and peripheral equipment (dispersion containers with heating and cooling)
• Screen units for conditioning
• Laboratory- and pilot-scale spray dryers (air, inert gas, and explosion-proof versions)
• Fluidized bed system
• Spray-freeze granulation unit

Materials characterization

• Mechanical and ion beam-based preparation techniques (broad and focused ion beam)
• Microscopic methods (optical microscopy, confocal 3D laser scanning microscopy, analytical field-emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and ultrasonic microscopy)
• 3D characterization (computed and FIB tomography)
• Qualitative and quantitative X-ray diffractometry, including line profile analysis
• High-temperature X-ray diffractometry up to 1200 °C
• X-ray fluorescence analysis
• Micro-Raman and IR spectroscopy

Electrode production

• Coating units (doctor blade, doctor blade against backing roll, and slot die and triple slot die in continuous and intermittent operation)
• Dryer units (passive drying, contact drying, flotation drying, UV curing, and convection)

Electrochemical characterization

• Glove boxes, climate cabinet (-40 °C to 120 °C), and multichannel potentiostat
• Measuring cells (two- and three-electrode setups) for electrochemical, thermo- and spectroelectrochemical investigations FTIR/Raman spectrometers
• Karl Fischer titration for water content determination in solids and liquids

Cell testing

• Battery test containers

Simulation

• FE codes: ANSYS, COMSOL, and FlexPDE
• CFD codes: Fluent and ANYSY-CFX
• System simulation: Modelica/SimulationX

Quality assurance

• Demonstrator for active thermography on running tape casting belts
• Air-coupled ultrasonic layer thickness gauge for monitoring of tape basis weight