Laboratory Tools is the equipment backbone of an electrochemistry R&D workflow — the reactors, coaters, and presses that turn precursors into materials, materials into films, and films into the dense, well-bonded laminates your cells actually run on. This section organizes the bench- and pilot-scale platforms a battery, fuel-cell, electrolyzer, or SOFC/SOEC lab will reach for, grouped by where they sit in the make-coat-consolidate sequence rather than by vendor or footprint.
The three child collections cover the three process phases:
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Liquid-Phase Synthesis — the reactor formats that decide particle size, phase, morphology, molecular weight, and trace-element homogeneity in solution. Stirred tank, solvothermal, flow, precipitation, sol-gel, microwave, and polymerization reactors covering layered (NCM, NCA) and olivine (LFP, LMFP) cathode precursors, NASICON (LATP, LAGP) and garnet (LLZO) solid electrolytes, OER and CO2-reduction catalysts, PFSA-type ionomers, and PVDF / CMC / SBR binders.
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Coaters — the deposition platforms that turn slurries, inks, and precursor solutions into controlled films. Dip, ultrasonic spray, electrospinning, tape casting, and screen printing, picked by viscosity, wet thickness, substrate format, and how solvent comes off — from dilute catalyst inks on membranes and gas-diffusion layers to thick ceramic green tapes and patterned SOFC/SOEC electrode layers.
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Presses — the flat-platen and rolling systems that consolidate coated foils, cast films, and powder feedstocks into dense laminates and pellets. Uniaxial presses for electrode lamination, MEA and CCM hot-pressing, solid-state stack consolidation, and pellet pressing; calenders for line-load densification of continuous web, including dry-process PTFE-fibrillated electrodes.
If you are sourcing equipment for a new line, work through it in order: start in Liquid-Phase Synthesis for precursors and polymer chemistry, move to Coaters to lay down the active layer, then finish on Presses for densification and lamination. For matched fixtures, milling jars, slot-die heads, and R2R handling that bridge coaters and presses, see Accessories.
