Facilities

The department has outstanding facilities for materials research. These include materials production facilities including wet chemical processing for ceramics and polymers; powder processing for ceramics; glass melting; casting; extrusion and rolling for metals; rapid solidification and water atomisation for nanoscale metallic materials, and extensive facilities for deposition of coatings.

Our excellent characterisation facilitiies include FEGTEM, HREM, FEGSEM, FIB and EPMA. Outstanding x-ray facilities comprise high-resolution x-ray diffraction using a STOE facility, high temperature XRD, low angle transmission XRD and a texture goniometer. Surface analysis techniques include state-of-the-art XPS and SIMS.

We have laboratories for cell and tissue culture, flow assisted fluorescence cell sorting, conformal microscopy and liquid chromatography.

To view all research centres and experimental facilities, choose Research from the left-hand main menu.