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Computational environment

Computational chemistry office equipped with four laptop positions.
VASP 5.2 (R.Teghil licence) and Quantum espresso softwares are used to carry out first principles calculations by the density functional theory (DFT) in order to predict the electronic structure, lattice stability, thermodynamic stability and vibrational properties of ordered lattices.
Several computational grants on massive parallel machines are available for HPC.

Experimental facilities

Iteco Engineering SS-30 Argon glove box equipped with moisture sensor and external drying system for handling samples in protected environment without air contamination and assemble lithium cells.

MTI 8 Channel Battery Analyser (0.002-1mA, up to 5V) equipped with laptop and software for battery test.

MTI 8 Channel Battery Analyser (6-3000mA, up to 5V) equipped with laptop and software for battery test.

Radwag oven for battery testing at constant temperature.

Portable IVIUM Vertex potentiostat/galvanostat/EIS for advanced electrochemical tests

MTI tube furnace with 2'' quartz tube and vacuum/gas flanges equipped with a gas-flowmeter and a vacuum pump gauge/pump.

Monosorb Quantachrome single point nitrogen adsorption apparatus for surface area evaluation

EL-CELL three electrode cell with pressure and temperature sensors for in operando gas-phase studies.

Standard equipment for inorganic material and nanomaterial synthesis (e.g. hydraulic press, hand press, balances, glassware, casting blade, ultrasonic bath, heated stirrers and hydrothermal reaction vessels)

Standard and Advanced equipment for cell assembling (
MTI Li-Air two electrode flat cell with gas inlet/outlet; EL-CELL three electrode cell with optical window for in operando spectroscopic study; EL-CELL 2-electrode flat cells for battery testing; ; EL-CELL 2-electrode flat cells with gas inlet/outlet for Li-O2 battery testing; swagelock-like 3-electrode cells for battery testing)

Science Department diffraction laboratory (Panalytical and Siemens diffractometers for powder samples)

Science Department experimental facilities (HR-TEM, E-SEM, AFS, liquid and solid state NMR, Raman, IR and others)

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