Olle Engkvist Foundation has awarded 2.6Mkr to Eric Tyrode / 2MILab to replace one of the central lasers. This upgrade is crucial to broaden the user-base of the superbly surface sensitive vertical sum frequency generation spectroscopy (VSFS) method. The laser … Read More

The physical transformation of the premises in the chemistry building are now underway, and proceeding according to schedule! Here, 2MILab director, Matthew Fielden, inspects the progress. The aim is to commission the new laboratories in October 2022, including the newly … Read More

KTH Research Infrastructures has allocated 3.5Mkr to allow 2MILab to acquire an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) for sustainability research. The funding matches that awarded by Olle Engkvist Foundation. XPS is used to distinguish elemental composition and bond-states at the surface … Read More

Mikael Östling, KTH’s  Deputy President for Research has approved the promotion of 2MILab from interim to full research infrastructure, in the company of top facilities like Electrum Lab, Odqvist Laboratory, Parallel Data Center (PDC) and National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI). The … Read More

The private foundation Olle Engkvists Stiftelse has just announced that an application for funding an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) system for use in sustainability research has been approved to a value of 3.5Mkr. This amount covers a significant part of … Read More

The heritage-listed building that houses the Department of Chemistry at KTH was purpose-built in 1922 for education and research in chemical science. Parts of the building have been renovated since then, but a large scale renovation has not been undertaken, until now.… Read More

A new degasser was recently installed next to the 3Flex gas adsorption instrument. The main reason for upgrading the degasser was to optimize degassing of samples based on natural products (e.g. wood) and enabling micropore analysis on these materials.