Research Equipment and Facilities

The Corrosion Study Centre is located in the new building of University of Ferrara and has a total of approximately 400 square metres of laboratory and office space. The Centre is well equipped for research with a variety of modern electrochemical and various other techniques and facilities including:

• Scanning electron microscopy
• Atomic force microscopy
• Optical microscopy and metallography
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• FT IR spectrometry
• Quartz crystal microbalance
• Potentiostatic and potentiodinamyc instrumentation
• Frequency response analyzer 
• Electrochemical noise analysis
• Rotating cylinder assemblies
• Corrosion monitoring equipment
• Stress corrosion test rigs
• Tribo-corrosion Equipment
• Hydrogen induced cracking test facilities
• Controlled atmosphere test facilities
• Salt spray and other routine corrosion test cabinet
• Electro- and mechanical polishing

Other facilities are available, including MAS-NMR. Through the Centre's collaborative research programmes, there is access to facilities elsewhere, e.g. RBS, XAS.