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Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis
Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (ACMM) is one of the research facilities in The University of Sydney. It is a major contributor to the University’s research output, and plays a vital role in supporting the microscopy and wider community through training, award courses, consulting, collaboration and testing.
ACMM is the largest and most comprehensive facility of its type in Australia. The centre incorporates the headquarters the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF), and it is a node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals. The ACMM’s vision is to be a world-leading facility for modern microscopy and microanalysis, offering premier instruments, services and training to researchers from across Sydney and around Australia, and providing strong leadership in the national and international characterisation communities.
The centre houses the country's most comprehensive array of material and biological specimen preparation, imaging and analysis equipment from conventional instruments for optical and electron microscopy through to X-ray and atom imaging and analysis.
Facilities offered, include:
- Specimen preperation
- biological specimen preperation for microscopy
- biomolecular preperation facility
- cell culture facility
- material specimen prepartion
- Light and laser microscopy
- transmission and relfection microscopy
- confocal microscopy
- multiphoton microscopy
- live cell microscopy
- total internal reflection flurorescence microscopy
- fluroescence lifetime imaging
- Scanning propoe microscopy
- Ntegra near-field scanning optical microscopy
- atomic for microscopy
- Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM)
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy
- Atom probe microscopy
- X-ray
- micro-computed tomography
- nano-computer tomography
- Secondary neutral mass spectroscopy
- Image visualisation and data analysis
For more information, please visit the ACMM webpage at http://sydney.edu.au/acmm
For inquires, please contact:
P: +61 2 9351 2351
F: +61 2 9351 7682
E: acmm.info@sydney.edu.au
