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  1. Plasma lab (Perry D, L2-007): This lab consists of X-rays photoelectron spectroscopy instrument which is used to analyze the elemental composition and chemical state of materials and provides information about their electronic structure. - Ajay
  2. Photoreactor lab (Perry D, 024): This lab consists of a number of photoreactor setups typically used for real wastewater treatment. -Irwing.
  3. Remote solar lab (Perry D, 03): This lab consists of remote solar setups showing the effect of hydrophobic coating of materials on solar panels to harvest solar energy and simultaneously deicing effect. -Ezra
  4. Chemical laboratory (Venables, S2036): In this lab plasma setup is there - a typical atmospheric pressure plasma setup to deposit the suspended nanomaterials onto different substrates at ambient conditions of temperature and pressure. - Ajay
  5. Analytical laboratory (Venables, S2035): This lab consists of X-ray powder diffraction instrument to analyze the crystal structure of a material by measuring the scattering of X-rays. - Ashutosh

Also the Material Engineering lab has these equipment:

The analytics lab houses a couple of XRD machines. One measures a broad range of diffraction angles for identifying materials, including the proportion of different components. The other has very high resolution over a narrow range of diffraction angles to measure distortion of a materials crystal structure and calculate stresses at the material surface.

The surface profiling lab contains a contour measuring machine (CMM) with both touch and laser probes. This is used to precisely measure height variations in a cut surface to calculate stresses present within a sample. Alternating between surface measurements and removing material with electropolishing can produce profiles of stress changes with depth. There is also a confocal microscope that can be used to produce 3D maps of surfaces, it has even higher resolution then the CMM but is limited to relatively small samples and offers a lot of other tools for analysing the data.