Scientific Laboratory Equipment

Instruments available in the Opificio’s scientific laboratories

  • Portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrophotometer XGLab mod. Elio
  • Optical Microscopy: Zeiss reflected-light photomicroscope with halogen and LED ultraviolet sources, Canon digital camera; Leica stereomicroscope with multicolour illumination sources, Canon digital camera; Zeiss AXI0 photomicroscope
  • Digital Microscopy: DinoLite microscope with white LED and UV sources
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy: Zeiss mod. EVO 25 with EDX Link-Oxford microanalysis
  • FTIR Spectrophotometry: Thermo-Nicolet IS50 spectrophotometer with FTIR reflection microscope and Continuum ATR; Bruker Alpha portable FTIR spectrophotometer with additional ATR module; Agilent handheld portable spectrophotometer
  • Raman Spectrophotometry: Madatec portable instruments with 532nm and 785nm lasers
  • Dionex DI120 ion chromatograph
  • Roughness tester
  • Eddy current meter for alloy characterisation Sigmascope SMP 10 and thickness gauge Leptoskop 2042 Karl Deutsch
  • Leptoskop 2042 Karl Deutsch colorimeter
  • Arroweld gloss meter
  • X-ray apparatus (fixed Italstructures C3K5 and portable Art Gil Gilardoni)
  • Mettler Toledo conductivity meter and pH meter
  • Origalys potentiostat for electrochemical analysis (amperometry, potentiometry, voltammetry)
  • Analytical balances, drying oven, muffle furnace
  • QUV ageing chamber