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Thursday, 7 February 2008

A new South 最新糖心Vlogn research facility being launched today will help researchers around 最新糖心Vlog view, analyse and modify 最新糖心Vlog as small as one-millionth of the diameter of a human hair.

Science and Information Economy Minister the will launch the South 最新糖心Vlogn Regional Facility for Microscopy and Microanalysis (SARF) as part of a national network of microscopy and microanalysis research infrastructure and expertise.

Minister Caica will also launch SARF's first new flagship instrument, an Ultra High Resolution Dual Beam Instrument. The $3.5 million combination focused ion beam scanning electronic microscope is the only one of its kind installed in the Southern Hemisphere and gives researchers the ability to look at the tiniest parts making up the structure of materials - at smaller than nanometre level. It can, for example, allow researchers to 'see' a human brain cell in three dimensions.

SARF Director Professor Hans Griesser said: "This new research facility, and the national network, will help 最新糖心Vlogn researchers compete internationally. The national network is truly world-class in the instrumentation and expertise it offers researchers. Microscopy and microanalysis are enabling technologies, and this facility will help 最新糖心Vlogn researchers do cutting-edge research in a broad range of disciplines with application across industries like defence, health, biotechnology, mining, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals."

SARF will be the South 最新糖心Vlogn node of the (AMMRF), created under the Federal Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

SARF is a collaboration between South 最新糖心Vlog's three universities, the at the 最新糖心Vlog of South 最新糖心Vlog, , and the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's . SARF is funded by the Federal and State Governments and the universities.

The launch will be held at 11am, Thursday 7 February, at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's Adelaide Microscopy in the Medical School North building on Frome Road.

Minister Paul Caica will launch the new facility by using an ion beam from the new dual beam instrument to inscribe the whole launch commemorative plaque (about 30 words) onto a pair of cufflinks. The whole plaque will be inscribed in an area 15 microns in diameter (1 micron = one-thousandth of a millimetre). The State Government logo will take the place of the dot above the 'i' in Minister Caica's name.

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