Facilities
Ren Lab has two separated spaces, both located at R1 building, UCF main campus. Lab 163 is primarily used for testing equipment and computation. In Lab 274 we have one fume hood and one glovebox for processing battery materials and assembling prototypes. We also use characterization/computational facilities at UCF MCF and local industry for our work.
Experimental (more to come)
Electrochemistry
- Glovebox (VAC OMNI LAB, H2O/O2 < 0.5 ppm)
- LANDT Battery Testing Systems (5V/1A, 5V/20A)
- Repower Battery Testing System (20V/20A)
- Coin cell crimper, split-type model cell and pouch cell sealer
- Custom-designed electrochemical cells
- Potentiostats (Gamry 1010, Ref3000)
- Scribner 857 redox flow batter test station
- Rotating ring disk electrode
- Environmental chamber
Material preparation
- High precision balance
- Centrifuge (Fisher Scientific 225)
- Ball milling (Retsch PM 100)
- Vacuum oven
- Environmental chamber
- Muffle furnace (THERMOLYNE F48020, up to 1200 degree C) and glass sealing tool
In-house characterization
- Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (Agilent 6890N, JMS-GC mate II)
- Perkin Elmer Diamond DSC with HperDSC
Computational
- Dell Precision 3680 Tower
- NVIDIA RTX 6000, 48 GB
- MATLAB (university access)
- COMSOL (access purchased as needed)
- PyBAMM (open access)
- GROMACS (open access)
Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) – AMPAC
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Escalab 250 Xi (XPS)
- Physical Electronics 600 AES/SAM
- XRD #1 Basic Diffraction
- XRD #2 Environmental Diffraction
- XRD #3 Thin Film Diffraction
- LEICA EM UC7/FC7 Ultramicrotomy
- Zeiss ULTRA-55 FEG SEM
- HITACHI S3500N SEM
- Renishaw RM 1000B Micro-Raman Spectrometer
- FEI Tecnai F30 TEM
- JEOL TEM-1011
Computational Facilities
- UCF Advanced Research Computing Center http://arcc.ist.ucf.edu
Battery Cell Prototyping Facilities in Collaboration with Local Battery Industry
- Pouch Cell (up to 5.0 Ah) assembly, vacuum sealing and testing
- Battery Gas Analysis with GC-TCD/FID
- Battery Pack Housing 3D printing