Welcome to the
Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF)
Established in July 2007 under the Commonwealth Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility is a joint venture between Australian university-based microscopy and microanalysis centres.
The AMMRF is a national grid of equipment, instrumentation and expertise in microscopy and microanalysis that provides nanostructural characterisation capability and services, including widely used optical, electron, X-ray and ion-beam techniques and world-leading flagship platforms. The latter include pulsed-laser local-electrode atom probe, high-throughput cryo-TEM, high-resolution SEM and spectroscopy, as well as high-precision ion probes.
This collaborative facility, comprising research expertise and research infrastructure, is accessible by all Australian researchers, enabling discovery and innovation in Australian science. Operating nodes in major capital cities, and with links to smaller units in specialist facilities, it provides access to a vast array of instrumentation.
The AMMRF offers a complete, modern suite of instruments accessible to all Australian publicly funded researchers on the basis of merit and a nominal fee schedule. Industry-based researchers can also access the facilities for proprietary research at commercial rates.
Media Release
| 04 December 2009, Sydney, NSW, Australia $5.4 million LIEF success will extend AMMRF capability It has just been announced that AMMRF nodes have attracted $4.61 million of LIEF funding for new, advanced microscopy instrumentation that will extend their capability in the face of increasing user demand and exciting new collaborations. In addition, the AMMRF Linked Lab at the Queensland University of Technology has attracted $0.8 million. Read full media release |
News
| 19 January 2010, Sydney, NSW, Australia AMMRF – supporting conferences in 2010 A number of upcoming conferences will be sponsored by the AMMRF in 2010 and numerous presentations will feature work carried out using AMMRF capability. The conferences will span a diversity of topics from nanotechnology at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Sydney in February, to specialised plant structures at Plasmodesmata 2010. Latest advances in cell biology will also be supported at the 10th Hunter Cell Biology Meeting in March. A major sponsorship opportunity is the 21st Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis (ACMM-21) in Brisbane in July. This conference brings together all the leading lights in the field of microscopy and microanalysis in Australia. Around the same time are several synergistic specialist meetings that will also be supported by the AMMRF, including IFES 2010, the 52nd International Field Emission Symposium in Sydney and the Scanning Probe Microscopy Workshop in Adelaide. Read full news article |
The AMMRF is funded by
