EPSRC opens state of the art materials facility
A new state of the art materials facility has been opened at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.
The EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy will allow scientists to see the properties of materials at the atomic level by providing access to cutting-edge instrumentation and state-of-the-art data analysis. It will also help researchers from universities across the UK gain expertise and training in electron microscopy.
EPSRC's head of physical sciences, Dr Andrew Bourne said: "This national facility will provide UK researchers with an internationally renowned resource in which they can carry out exciting experiments at the nanoscale. EPSRC is pleased to be working with the SuperSTEM Consortium and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to open up this new vista for microscopy."
The new facility will be managed by the SuperSTEM consortium, which is led by the University of Leeds and joined by the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford.
Its launch yesterday was attended by Professor Konstantin Novoselov of Manchester University, who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of graphene alongside Professors Andre Geim.
