The building

SynCat@Beijing has a spacious building with four floors. It offers about 1500m² of lab space and about 1500m² of space for offices and meeting rooms.

The instrumentation

SynCat@Beijing has ample equipment for studying catalysts and materials.

There are large instruments such as
– A near ambient pressure in-situ XPS combined with a near-ambient pressure SPM (NAP-XPS/SPM)  from SPECS Surface Nano Analysis
– An STM system in combination with LEED and fast XPS from Omicron
– A RAIRS setup in combination with fast XPS and AES/ LEED from Omicron
– An XPS K-alpha system for routine measurements
– A FEI Thalos system for transmission electron microscopy

Apart from that, equipment is available for
– inorganic and organic synthesis
– photocatalysis and electrochemistry
– material characterization
– various spectroscopies
– catalytic testing