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High-energy heavy ion microprobe
The high-energy heavy-ion microprobe is used for the characterisation or modification of material properties at depths from approximately 1 micrometre to maximum depths of up to 500 micrometres from the material surface.
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Nuclear technique supports industry-led action plan to phase out packaging with PFAS chemicals
Testing at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science supports an action plan just published by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) to phase out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fibre-based food contact packaging in Australia by December 2023.
Environmental conference highlights the role isotopes have in better supporting our precious ecosystems
Radiocarbon dating reveals past fall in sea level linked to changes on the Great Barrier Reef
ANSTO helping to ensure the safety of astronauts in space
A team of ANSTO health researchers, staff at the Centre for Accelerator Science and Dr Melanie Ferlazzo, a postdoc from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and scientists from the French Space Agency (CNES), are collaborating on investigations to determine the impact of secondary particles on human cells using the new microprobe beamline at ANSTO’s Centre for Accelerator Science.
Collaboration to jolt energy research forward
Strategic research partnership agreement with University of Queensland
Two ANSTO scientists made an Officer of the Order of Australia
Earthquake clues unearthed in strange, precariously balanced rocks
Imperial College London researchers tapped into ancient geological data locked within precariously balanced rocks using a new technique to boost the precision of hazard estimates for large earthquakes.
ANSTO's neutrons will help miners see what's inside drill cores with new clarity
The mining industry is set to benefit from a new Australian capability that uses a nuclear scanning technique to detect the presence of precious metals and strategic minerals in a core sample.
nandin deep tech hothouse sees businesses bloom
Two startups supported by the nandin Innovation Centre at ANSTO have hit the ground running in 2021 securing major opportunities from state governments to see their businesses thrive.
Additional funding for Chronic kidney disease research
ANSTO to receive a new grant to continue to fight chronic kidney disease killer in Sri Lanka.
Particle therapy update
ANSTO physicist will gain further experience in particle therapy technologies.
Understanding landscape evolution in intra-plate areas
Insights into the formation of deep river canyons mountain ranges in intra-tectonic plate areas by SAAFE Scholarship recipient and collaborators.
Unusual state of matter in new material holds promise for transformative quantum technologies
ANSTO has provided supporting experimental evidence of a highly unusual quantum state, a quantum spin liquid (QSL), in a two-dimensional material.
Synchrotron saved with half billion dollar funding stream
ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron Goes Solar for a Greener Future
More than 3,200 solar panels have been installed across the rooftops of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) Australian Synchrotron in Clayton, offsetting enough power to light up the whole MCG for more than five years.
'Atom hunters' broadcast on ABC
Using the past to illuminate the future: Brothers collaborate on important science documentary for ABC TV