Electrochemistry laboratory

Contact information 

• Mauritz Ryding, Senior Engineer
• Ingvild Garmo Nilsson, Adviser

Instruments

• Pulsed laser deposition (PLD): Surface
• Spark plasma sintering (SPS): Agus SPS2000

Solid-state electrochemistry

• Impedance spectrometers (Solartron 1260, Novocontrol Alpha, HP 4192A)
• Potentiostats (Solartron 1287, EG&G 273, Parstat)
• ProboStat measurement cells (NorECs AS)
  • Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), van der Pauw, Seebeck coefficients, transport number, fuel  cell/electrolyzer, membrane flux
• Temperature: 25–1600°C
• Controlled atmosphere: O₂, N₂, H₂, H₂O/D₂O, NH_3, CO/CO₂
• Gas chromatography (GC) for gas analysis

Thermal analysis 

• Thermogravimetry: NETZSCH STA 449 F1/F3 Jupiter DSC-DTA
• Controlled atmosphere: O₂, N₂, H₂, H₂O/D₂O
• Dilatometry: NETZSCH 402

Gas exchange kinetics 

• Pulsed isotope exchange (PIE) setup
• Gas phase analysis setup
• Isotopes: ¹⁸O₂, D₂, D₂O, D₂¹⁸O, ¹⁵N₂, etc.

(Photo)electrochemistry

• Gas phase (photo)electrochemical cells (CO₂, CH₄, H₂O, O₂)
• Rotating disc electrode (RDE) (Gamry)
• Solar simulators (Newport: Oriel, Sol3A)
• Potentiostats (Gamry Reference 3000 & 30k Booster, Ivium)
• Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) (Agilent 5977B GC/MSD)
• Mass spectrometry for ppb-level H₂ (Hiden HPR-20 EGA)

Synthesis

• High temperature muffle furnaces
• Solid-state and wet-chemical synthesis
• Planetary ball mill: Retsch PM100
• Uniaxial and hydrostatic presses

Booking and pricing

We offer PhD-students, Postdocs, and researchers an annual access fee of 175 000 NOK to all instruments. 

We offer hourly rates for the following instruments: 

*There is limited access to All other services with a minimum hourly rate of 500 NOK. Please contact us if you wish to make a reservation. 

Prices are in Norwegian kroner (NOK) excl. VAT. All prices are subject to change. 

The electrochemistry laboratory can be found in Life Science Buidling, Problemveien 27 0371 Oslo.