Group Laboratory Capabilities

The New Ardo Laboratories consist of four laboratory spaces and an adjacent group member office space (updated pictures coming soon):

• Electrochemistry & Molecular Synthesis Laboratory: Integrated Science & Engineering Building, Room 5500 (ISEB 5500)
• Materials Synthesis Laboratory: Integrated Science & Engineering Building, Room 5705 (ISEB 5705)
• Laser Laboratory: Integrated Science & Engineering Building, Room 5710 (ISEB 5710)
• Makerspace: Integrated Science & Engineering Building, Room 5720 (ISEB 5720)
• Group Member Office Space: Integrated Science & Engineering Building, Room 5300 (ISEB 5300)

• COMSOL for finite-element device physics simulations, chemical kinetics mechanisms
• MATLAB, Python for discrete-time random walk Monte Carlo simulations
• TURBOMOLE (Filipp Furche's Group) for time-dependent density functional theory (TD–DFT)

• Molecules, general types, including organic, inorganic, organometallic; specific types, including dye sensitizers, photoacids, catalysts
• Materials, general types, including polymers, metal oxides, hybrid organic–inorganic; specific types, including quantum dots, nanopores, monolayers
• Schlenk Lines (air/water-free), including mercury bubblers for pressure regulation, diffusion pumps for low-vacuum
• Glovebox (air/water-free), including refrigerator, dewar, BNC and banana plug feed-throughs for external electrochemistry, fiber optic feed-throughs for external spectroscopic sources and detectors, quartz window for external optical excitation
• Materials Deposition, including hydrothermal, electrodeposition, thermal evaporation, sputtering, spin coating, atomic layer deposition (Matt Law's Group), centrifugation
• Thermal Equipment, including three-zone tube furnace, muffle/box furnaces, hot plates

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) (UCI Chemistry NMR Facility)
• Fourier Transform Infrared – Attenuated Total Reflectance (FTIR–ATR) (UCI Chemistry Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory)
• Photoluminescence
• Ultrafast Pump–Probe (UCI Chemistry Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory), with probing in the near-ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, terahertz
• Nanosecond and Longer Pump–Probe, with probing in the near-ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, microwave, radio-frequency
• Optical Microscopies, including two-photon fluorescence (UCI Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics), Raman (UCI Chemistry Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory), sum-frequency generation (SFG) (Nien-Hui Ge's Group), near-field scanning optical (NSOM) (Nien-Hui Ge's Group)

• Mass Spectrometry (UCI Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Facility)
• Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography (UCI Chemistry X-ray Crystallography Facility)

• Microscopies, including atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (UCI LEXI Facility), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (UCI CTEM Facility)
• Spectroscopies, including energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) (UCI LEXI Facility), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) (UCI SSF Facility), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) (UCI SSF Facility)
• Analytical, including inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) (UCI TEMPR Facility), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) (UCI TEMPR Facility), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) (UCI TEMPR Facility)
• X-ray Diffraction (XRD) (UCI LEXI Facility)
• X-ray Absorption (XAS) and Scattering (LBNL ALS Beamline)
• Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) (UCI Chemistry Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory)

• Setups, including two/three/four-electrode, bipotentiostat
• Techniques, including cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), rotating ring–disk electrochemistry (RRDE)
• Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry (DEMS)
• Photo-Excitation Sources, including various LED excitation sources and a high-power 405 nm LED excitation source
• Spectral Response (IPCE), including white light excitation and a series of intense LED excitation sources

• Types, including electrochemical cells, devices, small-scale prototypes