Northwestern University

Contact Info:

Xinqi Chen

2220 Campus Drive

Cook Hall, Room 1149

Evanston, IL 60208

http://www.nuance.northwestern.edu/keck-ii/index.html

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_026360

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Relevant Publications:

1.) Huang C, Yang Y, Liu C, Chen H, Chaudhuri S, Jeon WC, Li M, Rolston N, Bati ASR, Gilley IW, Kumral B, Serles P, Filleter T, Schatz GC, Kanatzidis MG, Chen B, Chen LX, Sargent EH (2025 Oct). Electrostatically Enhanced Buried Interface Binding of Self-Assembled Monolayers for Efficient And Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 37(43), e08740. . PMID: 40787876.

2.) Nord MT, Plaman AS, Zakharov LN, Farha OK, Nyman M (2025 Apr 9). Acid Stability of M(IV) (M = Zr, Hf, Ce, Th) UiO-66 MOFs from a Solution Perspective. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 17(14), 21357-21370. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c21721. PMID: 40146877.

Description:

The Keck-II Center was established in late 2001 through the support of W. M. Keck Foundation. Keck-II also has received some support from Northwestern's Institute for Nanotechnology's NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center (NSEC) as well as from the State of IL and Northwestern. Keck-II facilitates research, collaboration, education and outreach in all science from soft biological matter to hard physical matter, specializing in surface analysis and nano-scale characterization.  Keck-II hosts Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), Confocal Raman System, High Resolution Stylus Profilometer, 3D Optical Microscope, Spectroscopic Ellipsometer, and Zetasizer. Keck-II is open to all the faculty and students at Northwestern University as well as the researchers at the nearby academic institutions and related industrial companies. The Keck-II Center operates and functions like its sister facilities (SPID and EPIC)-based on the core philosophy of open-access, hand-on training, collaboration and assistance from our able staff. Training is offered on a periodic basis, both as “crash courses” or part of hands-on structured courses, as well as individual ad-hoc training as need arises.