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since Jan 2006
 
Our laboratory is located at Chemistry Building Room 4 & 5. With the funding support from Canadian goverment agencies and the Univeristy, our lab is now fully operational housing state-of-the-art infrastructure dedicated to chemistry and materials research under extreme conditions.

1. Apparatus for extreme condition generation

a) Diamond anvil cells (DAC)
symmetric DAC
Symmetric DAC
HDAC
Hydrothermal DAC
BeCu
Low-T BeCu DAC
MDAC
Membrane cell

b) Sample preparation tools		  
EDM
EDM Driller
Microscope
Leica optical microscope with CCD camera


c) Chemicals and materials preparation apparatus		  
Glovebox
EDM Driller
Wet Lab
Wet chemistry labware
d) Cryogenic stations  
Cryostat

2. Spectroscopic systems for structural characterization
a) Raman microspectroscopy system  
Raman System  

b) FTIR microspectroscopy system		  
FTIR system

3. Other on-campus facilities
a) Western Nanofabrication Facility
b) Surface Science Western
c) Chemistry Electronic Machine Shop

4. Off-campus facilities


a) HPCAT and Sector 20 at Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory
b) HXMA and Brockhouse sectors of Canadian Light Sourcein Saskatoon, SK, Canada
c) BL15U of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai, China