The High Value Manufacturing Catapult is the go-to place for manufacturing technology innovation in the UK. Our seven centres, listed below, work across 17 locations covering all parts of country to support manufacturers in over 4,000 projects per year, offering open access to the latest industrial scale equipment, leading expertise and an environment of collaboration between industry, academia and government. We cover the full range of manufacturing technology capabilities, from biologics to...

The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 370 institutions across the country, it is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support research. New descriptions are added every week, often representing collections being made available for the first time. Researchers can use the Hub to instantly scan the archival landscape and bring together diverse sources held in repositories across the country. The...

The BrisSynBio Research and Innovation Infrastructure (RII) incorporates a distributed research infrastructure and capabilities that underpins the University of Bristol’s synthetic and engineering biology research endeavour. This includes:

BioSuite: Liquid-handling robots for cloning and assays, protein production, and protein crystallisation. 

700 NMR suite: provides high sensitivity NMR services for the routine characterisation of small molecules, peptides and proteins. 

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BrUNEL is the UK's only Ultra high vacuum spectro microscopy suite for performing high resolution surface analysis of conductive crystalline and 2D/multilayer materials in both real space and momentum space using Energy filtered, photo electron emission microscopy and monochromatic high brightness light sources. It is a complementary laboratory facility to national synchrotron facilities allowing researchers to pre-analyse samples by imaging with high brightness, monochromated,VUV light imaging...

EPMA is a non-destructive technique yielding high-precision elemental composition data of materials at micro- and nanometre scales. This union of analytical precision and spatial resolution makes EPMA unique among microanalytical techniques. Its data contributes to a variety of disciplines critical to the UK research and industrial infrastructure. These include fields as diverse as photonics, earth science resources, nuclear engineering, and high strength, high-temperature materials development...

The GW4 Alliance is a collaboration between four leading UK universities, all located in the south-west: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. GW4 collaborates on many inter-institution projects, most recently adding the 'Isambard' Tier 2 HPC service. The Isambard supercomputer is especially important as it enables a level of cross architecture comparison which is unmatched internationally. It also makes competitive Arm-based supercomputing available in a production environment for the first time...

The University of Bath has established several cross-disciplinary multi-user Core Research Facilities of which the Material and Chemical Characterisation Facility (MC²) is the largest. MC² encompasses critical technology for the characterisation of materials from the molecular to organism level, with techniques including NMR, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction (powder and single crystal), thermal and elemental analysis, flow cytometry, and electron-, laser scanning-, high content-, raman- and...

The Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) is a well established multidisciplinary research centre within the School of Physics of the University of Bristol, with very strong links toward industry. For over 30 years, the IAC has been actively involved in research on materials and material surfaces. The Centre continues to provide a vibrant and stimulating environment for study, exploring materials of all types, including strong activities in nanoscience, nuclear and structural materials. It is fully...