Research Facilities

 

The Hub is across 5 universities has enormous research and development capabilities to support the program and Industry Partners. The core facilities are located at the University of Adelaide with several graphene labs, with labs scale graphene materials production, prototyping and characterisation capabilities.

Take a virtual tour of the main graphene lab at the University of Adelaide – click the top left drop down menu in the linked site and select “Graphene Labs”


lab

Nanomaterials synthesis

  • Chemical
  • Hydrothermal
  • Ultrasonication
  • Ball milling
  • Thermal (CVD)
  • High-sheer
  • Freeze drying


surface engineering

Surface Engineering

  • ALD (thermal, plasma)
  • CVD (3)Plasma (atmospheric)
  • Plasma (vacuum)
  • Plasma (particles, corona)
  • UV/OzoneSpin, dip, spray coating
  • Thermal deposition
  • Electrochemical (deposition anodization, etching)
  • Laser scribing


ball milling

Characterization facilities

  • Light Microscopy
  • SEM, TEM, EDAX,
  • Raman, FTIR, XRD
  • UV/VIS, PL, XRF
  • PSD, BET
  • TGA, Tensiometer
  • Electrochemical
  • Conductivity


3d printer

Prototyping/scaling up

  • Graphene filaments extrusion
  • 3D hard printing
  • 3D soft printing
  • 2D printing (inkjet, spray)
  • Research grade graphene (pristine, rGO, GO, nanodots)
  • Custom Functionalisation
  • Mxenes, hBN, MoS2 etc.
  • Graphene conductive inks
  • Ag nanowires