Summary
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is an essential analytical technique in materials science with applications spanning from medicine to materials physics. The grant will be used to replace a 14 year old multi-user SEM instrument that has served a very broad research community at iNANO across both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Technology.
The immediate use of the new instrument involves a broad range of project related to the green transition and sustainable energy such as thermoelectrics, batteries, magnets, catalysis, cement, fractures, materials surfaces, biomaterials, bio-interfaces and memory devices. The direct instrument community includes 15 professors across nanoscience, chemistry, physics, geoscience, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering.