NanoESCA

‌‌‌‌‌The NanoESCA Facility hosts a number of electron spectroscopy and microscopy tools for state-of-the-art surface analysis at the nanoscale.

Our instruments provide a unique perspective on the surface electronic properties of materials, enabling a detailed understanding of the surface chemistry, electronic structure or work function to be extracted. We are housed in the NSQI Building, which hosts some of the lowest vibration labs in Europe.

Interface Analysis Centre 

The Interface Analysis Centre Facility is the University of Bristol’s core materials characterisation facility, hosting over £12M of equipment for materials research, including scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes , focused ion beam, X-ray diffraction, X-ray Tomography, high-speed atomic force microscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry and raman spectroscopy.

The Facility’s academic, research and technical staff are based in the School of Physics, and collectively have decades of experience in the use and development of these techniques, with a number of new technologies created in the department including electron backscatter diffraction, high-speed atomic force microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy.

The IAC staff use the equipment in the Facility to characterise a wide range of materials from steels and uranium to graphite, diamond and even paintings! The Facility works extensively with industry and academic researchers within the university and at partner institutions, providing cutting-edge data and analysis to answer fundamental materials challenges.

Cleanroom

The University of Bristol Cleanroom is available to external users interested in microfabrication and nanofabrication. We offer an initial consultation to determine if we are able to help you achieve your project goals and can proceed by running fabrication processes for customers or facilitating access to our Facility for employees of our partner organisations.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

A state-of-the-art NMR centre equipped with 12 solution-state spectrometers ranging from 300-700 MHz and configured to tackle a wide range of challenging chemical, biological and metabolomic problems. World leading instruments include cryo- (500 and 600 MHz) and microcryo probes (700 MHz) for maximum ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁵N and ¹⁹F sensitivity enabling structure determination on just a few micrograms of material.

The facility can handle single or multiple samples through automation and in house expertise covers both small molecule and biomacromolecular characterisation. We can offer service, academic collaboration or consultancy with Industrial partners.