State-of-the-art facilities available for users.

# Name of the Instrument Make/Model Other Details
1 Autosorb iQ- Chemisorption (&Physisorption) Gas sorption Analyzer Quantachrome / AutosorbiQ Physisorption and Chemisorption studies
2 Gas Chromatography (GC) Instrument Claraus 580 & Perkin Elimer Number of slots booking
Max. 2/ day
Max. 4 / calendar week
Detectors Flame ionization detector (FID)
Thermal conductance detector (TCD)
3 TGA And DSC Instruments Thermo Gravimetric
Analyzer,Netzsch-STA
2500 Regulus		 Maximum sample temperature:1600°C,
Furnace : RT to 1600°C
(heating rate 0.001 to 50 K/min)
Temp precision: 0.3KThermocouple: Type S,
Atmosphere: Vacuum- tight 10-4 m bar
4 Panalytical XRD Powder X-ray Diffractometer -
PANalytical,Xpert3		 Nature of sample: Powder/thin films/SAXS
Scan range: 5-100 degree
5 FT-IR Instrument Ft-IR, SHIMADZU IR TRACER-100 IR REGION 400-12500 cn -1,Standard KBr Mode
ATR Mode,SRM,DRS
6 High Resolution Mass Spectrometry LC/MS,6230B Time of Flight(TOF),Agient technologies Nature of sample: Solid/Liquid/Gel
Mass range: 50-3200 amu
Resolution: 40000 FWHM
High Mass Accuracy: Typically less than 1ppm
7 Potentiostat-galvanostat Biologic-SP 300 Instrument Upto 2 Channels, Compliance:±12 V up to ±49 V with booster,
Control voltage: ±10 V upto±48 V with booster
Potential resolution: 1 µV,
EIS measurement: 10 μHz – 3 MHz (1%, 1°),
10 μHz – 7 MHz (3%, 3°)
8 Microwave Reactor Anto Paar - Multiwave Pro Extraction Package Successfully perform microwave-assisted extractions.
Up to 16 samples can be extracted in a single run
9 Biosensor Workstation Autolab
  1. Zero resistance ammeter
  2. Maximum potential: +- 10 V
  3. CV and LSV scan rate: 0.000001 to 10,000 V/s
  4. Potential increment during scan: 0.1mV @ 1,000 V/s
  5. SWV frquency: 1 Hz to 100 kHz
  6. IMP frequency: 0.00001 Hz to 1 MHz
  7. IMP amplitude: 0.00001 V to 0.7 V rms
  8. Automatic and manual IR compensation
  9. Current measurement bias: full range with 16-bit resolution, 0.003% accuracy
10 Freeze Dryer FreeZone 4.5 Extraction Package Collector Temperature: -50° C, -58° F
Conformance: CAN/CSA C22.2, UL
Ice Holding Capacity: 4.5L
Plug Type: North America, 115V
Style: Benchtop Vacuum Pump Displacement Required:
98 L/min or larger displacement
11 Stereo-zoom Microscope, Polarized Microscope Microscope Camera, MC170 HD, Leica 5 MP HD Microscope Camera.
HD Digital microscope camera with c-mount interface
that provides a full high definition live image with
up to 30fps and a standard capture resolution of 5Mpixels.
It produces full-color still images
for all microscopic applications.
12 UV Photoreactor instrument LUZCHEM- LZC-4V Number of slots booking-
Max. 1/ day
13 Inert Atmosphere Glove Box DANVEC – 8 port - IT Technologies Pte Ltd, Singapore Inert atmosphere reactions
14 Battery Cycler Instrument VCS 810 Battery cycling system up to 1.5 A per channel
15 Fuel Cell Analyser and RRDE Instruments CH Instruments CHI608E-3A Electrochemical Workstation with
Potentiostat / Galvanostat, Rotating Ring
Disk Electrode Apparatus with purge & stir facility.
16 Rotary Evaporator IKA RV-10 Rotavapor Instrument Rotary evaporator with KNF Vacuum pump, and Indigenous Chiller.
17 Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) Agilent Technologies.
Year of Installation:2021
  1. Detectors: Refractive Index (RI), Diode Array Detector (DAD) and Viscometer Detector
  2. System is connected with an Isocratic Pump, maximum pressure 600 bar.
  3. Two PLgel 5um MIXED-D 300 x 7.5 mm columns suitable for use of dimethylacetamide (DMAc) as solvent.
  4. 1260 Infinity II Multicolumn Thermostat MCT. Temperature range: 30 to 85°C.
  5. Separation of molecular weight range: 5 kDa to 400 kDa.
  6. Calibration can be done with PMMA and PS standards. 5 kDa to 200 kDa [poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) standard] and 5 kDa to 100 kDa [polystyrene (PS) standard].
18 Dissolution and Diffusion cell apparatus Agilent Technologies.
Year of Installation:2021
  1. Agilent dissolution apparatus (708-DS)
  2. Rotor speed range: 10-250 RPM (±1)
  3. Water bath temperature range: RT to 55 °C (±1),
  4. Color touchscreen & real-time display
  5. Programmable protocols, sample collections (manual)
  6. temperature probe, Electro-polished SS Paddle
  7. intrinsic and powder dissolution
  8. Internationally pharmacopeia specifications
  9. hydraulic press for pellet
19 Spectrofluorimeter with lifetime TCSPC
Year of Installation:2021
  1. FLS-1000 Spectrofluorimeter (Edinburgh) for steady state emission/excitation (200-850 nm), lifetime (nano second, pico second and micro second time scale), Anisotropy for solution, powder and thin films. Sources of diode lasers/LEDs: 380 nm, 450 nm, 570 nm and 635 nm.

Location -
Sir C V Raman Research Park (Room No. 003)
SRM institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathur,
Chennai-603203, Tamil Nadu
(For location details of individual instruments, please check contact)