Welcome
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.
News
AMMRF Public Lecture, Perth
We invite you to a public lecture at the joint Australian Conference on Microscopy & Microanalysis, Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference (APMC 10), and the 2012 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
6 February 2012, 6.00–7.30pm, Riverside Theatre, 21 Mounts Bay Road, Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Western Australia, 6000
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21 November 2011
Science and beauty meet in Inner Space
The Incredible Inner Space exhibition has opened at Questacon in Canberra. The images for this memorable exhibition have been brought together from all around the AMMRF and highlight how much microscopy matters in providing fundamental data to researchers and in communicating the wonders of science to a wide audience of Australians.
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11 November 2011
Young tall poppy
Congratulations must go to Dr Peter Liddicoat, the AMMRF's atom probe scientist. He has been doubly recognised for his significant research achievements resulting from his atom probe analysis of super-strong, yet light, aluminum alloys. On November 3, at a ceremony at the Powerhouse Museum, Dr Liddicoat was presented with a 2011 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award by Prof. Jill Trewhella, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) from the University of Sydney.
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The AMMRF is funded by
