Centre for Clean Energy Techonology
Name of Group Leader:
Prof. Guoxiu WangPhysical Address:
Centre for Clean Energy TechnologyUniversity of Technology Sydney
City Campus
15 Broadway, Sydney, New South Wales 2007
Australia
Phone:
+61 2 95141741Fax:
61 2 95141460Email:
guoxiu.wang@uts.edu.auNanotechnology Research Programs/Activities:
perform extensive research into electromaterials for applications in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, lithium-air batteries, Na-ion batteries, lithium–sulfur batteries, supercapacitors and fuel-cells, controllable synthesis of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications for chemical and biosensors, and semiconductor quantum dots, quantum wires and quantum tubes for nanoscale electronic and photonic devicesScale of Nanotechnology Research Effort:
12 PhD students, 6 research staff, 10 support staff; $500000 per yearNanotechnology research facilities:
Materials preparation and electrochemical testingMBraun Inert Atmosphere Glove-boxes (2), Germany
MTI High temperature furnace / Split tube furnace, USA
Neware Battery Testers (400 channels)
Land battery Testers (48 channels)
CH Instruments Electrochemical Workstations (3) , USA
Rotating Disk Electrode connected to a Bipotentiostat, Pine Research Instrumentation
Nano NC Electrospinning/spraysystem/Electrospinning machine
WS-30 gas sensing tester
Ball mill equipment
Pressing machine
Hot plates
High Speed Centrifuge H1650
Westing House Fridge
Hohsen hand operated coin-cell crimper, Japan
Vacuum drying oven VDO-30CH
BUCHI 461Rotavapor water bath, Switzerland
Unisonics Ultrasonic cleaner/probes/horns
BRANSON digital sonifier
Mettler Toledo Lab Balances
Chemical/microstructral characterisation
Raman spectrometer
UV-VIS spectrometers
Atomic Force Microscope [AFM] with nanomanipulator
MicroActive for 3 Flex
Physical characterisation
X-ray diffraction [XRD]
Scanning Electron Microscope[SEM]
Simultaneous TG-DTA
Transmission electron microscopy[TEM] (opens an external site)
Electron Microscope Unit at the University of New South Wales (opens an external site)
UNICO 1100 spectrophotometer
Theoretical Analysis
High-Performance Computer Workstation
