Head: Prof. Amparo Fuertes
PERMANENT SCIENTIFIC STAFF:
Prof. Amparo Fuertes
Research Professor
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Prof. Nieves Casañ
Research Professor
nieves@icmab.es
Dra. Rosa Palacín
Tenured Scientist
rosa@icmab.es
Dra. Concepción Domingo
Tenured Scientist
conchi@icmab.es
Dr. Gerard Tobías
Tenured Scientist
gerard.tobias@icmab.es
PERMANENT TECHNICAL STAFF:
Julio Fraile
julio@icmab.es
Initial activities of the Department of Solid State Chemistry of ICMAB (SSC) started in 1988 focusing in the chemistry of high Tc superconducting oxides. The research interests have been further expanded to a diversity of topics within materials chemistry, and now are centered in the areas of battery materials, inorganic and carbon nanomaterials, biomaterials and nitride-based materials. The design of new inorganic phases, basing on crystal chemical criteria, and their modification by chemical / electrochemical doping –cationic or anionic- and by changing the size and microstructure, are among our major objectives. The development of new synthetic methodologies, specific for each targeted phase, is also a defining feature of the Department. The investigated materials include high power/high capacity electrodes for rechargeable batteries, electroactive materials for neural growth, drug delivery systems, inorganic nanowires, carbon nanotubes, luminescent and electronic materials and catalysts.
Equipment
- Furnaces, T < 1400 oC (gases: O2, Ar, Ar/H2, N2, NH3)
- Vertical furnace for high temperature electrochemical devices
- Glove box Labconco with purification down to 1 ppm O2 and 5 ppm H2O
- Potentiostat/Galvanostat EG&G PAR 273 A, 100 V compliance, 1 A; 263 A, 10V compliance, 100 mA
- Potentiostat/Galvanostat EG&G PAR 263A, 20 V compliance, 100 mA
- Electrochemical Quartz Microbalance Seiko-PAR, QCA 9 MHz
- Multipotentiostats:
Arbin, 8 channels 100 mA and 1 A max;
McPile, 16 channels (12 pot., 4 galv.);
VMP, 14 channels (2 with EIS, 100 Khz ) 20 V compliance
(Include 2 impedance channels and power boosters) - Electrophoretical system Labconco 0-1000 V, 0-0.5 A
- Spin Coating system up to 6000 r.p.m., N2 flow
- Multi-purpose continuous and batch supercritical CO2 equipment working up to 300 bar and 150 oC
- High pressure (up to 350 and 150 oC) phase-monitor equipment equipped with a video camera system
- BET specific surface area analysis equipment. Micromeritics ASAP-2000
- Freeze-Drying system
- Vaccum Line system
- Optical microscopes, NIKON, LABOPHOT, OPTOPHOT
- Incubator furnace, atmosphere controlled
- Laser system for contact angle measurements
