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...

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...

BRAMS is a new state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Bristol, created to enhance the UK capability for ¹⁴C analysis in the biogeochemical, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological sciences amongst other fields. We are home to a MICADAS accelerator mass spectrometer; one of the latest generation of ultra-compact, high-precision AMS instruments featuring a gas capable ion source for the rapid analysis of small samples. The BRAMS facility is equipped with a suite of...

What it does - The objective of CFMS is to accelerate the implementation of advanced modelling and simulation capabilities into our client organisations, taking today's technologies and making them operate more effectively and deliver more value or understanding the implications of emerging technologies on the computational infrastructure within industry such that they can be rapidly exploited. Research/Innovation goals & objectives To provide our clients with greater insight into the...

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...