The Clean Room

Since 2019 the Department of Chemistry features a class ISO7 Cleanroom (less than ten thousand particles per cubic foot of air with particle size of 0.5μm to 5μm) located at the Molecular Sciences Research Hub in White City. The 150 m² facility contains three rooms: two for the fabrication and characterisation of devices including perovskite and organic solar cells and one dedicated to the fabrication of microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip and in vitro biological studies. In light of its sustainability and energy-efficient working policy, the cleanroom was recently awarded a gold award for the Lab Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF).

Equipment within the clean room lab

• Chemical workstations (Class ISO5) compatible with all types of wet chemistry
• Programmable spin coaters located in both fumehoods and gloveboxes
• Hotplates located in both fumehoods and gloveboxes
• Diener Femto oxygen plasma chamber
• ZAA 2300 Zehntner-Automatic film applicator coater and R-K Knife bar coaters
• MBraun Evaporator – located in an MBraun Glovebox
• Kurt J Lesker evaporator – located in an Mbraun Glovebox
• PVE300 Bentham Photovoltaic EQE measurement system
• Lot-Oriel and Newport Solar simulators
• Alpha Step Tencor D500 Surface Profilometer
• Probe station for transistor characterisation
• Separate MBraun Glovebox complete with spincoater for Perovskite fabrication
• Four point probe, Ossilla
• Contact Angle Goniometer, Ossilla
• DRP-STAT-I400S μStat-i 400s Potentiostat/Galvanostat/Impedance Analyzer, Metrohm

MSRH

In 2018 many of the Department's activities moved into a custom-built facility at Imperial’s new White City Campus. This landmark building has been designed to support our vision for chemistry. It gives us the additional space and flexible infrastructure needed to realise the potential for major advances in the chemical and molecular sciences.