New research equipment installed at The University of Western Australia will support innovative multimodal and correlative microscopy to address national needs in energy, critical minerals, environment, agriculture and health research.<\/p>\n
Launched by Minister for Science and Innovation, the Hon Stephen Dawson, the multimodal microscopy suite represents an investment of around $20 million through university, State and Federal Government funding through NCRIS Microscopy Australia and ARC LEIF. <\/p>\n
The new infrastructure sits within UWA\u2019s Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and Analysis, which is the Western Australian Microscopy Australia Facility. <\/p>\n
Microscopy Australia\u2019s open access policy ensures that researchers anywhere can access the facilities and its dedicated expertise to deliver high-quality training and support for the best possible research outcomes fostering collaboration between academia and industry.<\/p>\n
UWA Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Anna Nowak said the new multimodal microscopy suite would expand capability to undertake highly advanced imaging analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new research infrastructure will enable our researchers to investigate samples from the macro to the nano scale,\u201d Professor Nowak said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting for us to have access to this technology in Western Australia for the first time, particularly the nano-SIMS which is one of only three in the world currently.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allows us to take elemental and isotopic images at very high resolution a few thousand times smaller than a human hair, which is small enough to see inside an individual cell.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an example of how it could be used, if you were developing a new type of drug and wanted to see how that drug was working inside a cell, it could be used to capture that impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
The collection of new advanced imaging tools includes a state-of-the-art Serial Block Face – Scanning Electron Microscope, high-resolution confocal microscope, and an upgrade to Large Geometry Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (LG-SIMS) funded through Microscopy Australia, as well as WA’s first light sheet microscope (ARC LEIF) and Australia\u2019s only high-resolution nano-SIMS (funded by UWA and supported through Microscopy Australia).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research equipment installed at The University of Western Australia will support innovative multimodal and correlative microscopy to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6634,64,63,8268,2572,75,137,340817,4217,52877,15957,340816,337,46067,128,60595],"class_list":["post-699642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-agriculture","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-critical-minerals","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-high-reolution","tag-infrastructure","tag-microscope","tag-microscopy","tag-nano-scale","tag-research","tag-scanning","tag-science","tag-spectrometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}