Manchester Museum is the largest university museum in the UK. It is almost unique among UK university museums in covering both natural sciences and humanities collections disciplines. The Museum's Mission is "As a university museum, the Manchester Museum uses its international collection of human and natural history for enjoyment and inspiration, working with people from all backgrounds to provoke debate and reflection about the past, present and future of the earth and its inhabitants." The...

DCF is the University of Manchester’s research base for radiation science, co-located with additional nearby capability in robotics research applicable to the nuclear sector. Since opening in 2013 DCF has become firmly established as a key national research asset and is a delivery partner in three strategic programmes: the National Nuclear User Facility, the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials and the EPSRC UK National Ion Beam Centre, delivered in partnership with the universities of...

High voltage equipment is of vital importance in a range of sectors including energy networks and transport systems (such as the future HV systems being deployed in aerospace environments). The development of any high voltage equipment can be supported by numerical and lower voltage experimental simulations. However, research and development ultimately requires robust, full-scale, high voltage testing to fully understand the physical degradation / failure processes that can take place. The...

to what it does The University of Manchester Near-Ambient Pressure XPS facility provides Near-Ambient Pressure XPS characterisation to academia and industry. X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a vital surface characterisation technique in routine usage in many research fields and industries (catalysis, electrochemistry/batteries, thin film coating). XPS is a high vacuum technique, restricting it to post-mortem measurements. Near-Ambient Pressure XPS (NAP-XPS) is an evolution of this...

The NMR Facility in the Department of Chemistry provides a high throughput NMR spectroscopy, structure verification and structure elucidation service for chemists. NMR instrumentation and staff provide method development and chemical analysis. The facility underpins a significant amount of chemistry research at the University of Manchester.

Founded in 1889 as the first English gallery in a park, the Whitworth has been transformed by a £15 million development. This is a gallery whose visitor numbers have climbed spectacularly in the past five years, whose contemporary exhibitions programmes have given new life to international collections, and whose risk-taking curatorial team has gained global attention. Part of the University of Manchester, the Whitworth is a gallery that is a place of research and academic collaboration, and...

The laboratories are capable of testing high voltage equipment at a range of voltages up to 800kV AC, 600kV DC and 2MV impulse (lightning and switching). The testing capabilities we have are relevant to electricity transmission and distribution networks, a range of industrial high voltage devices and the high voltage components being deployed in vehicles including ships, aircraft and cars. High voltage testing can be carried out at a range of temperatures and pressures with specialist monitoring...

The School of Natural Science X-ray diffraction service has a range of instrumentation capable of performing single crystal, powder, stress strain, particle size and small angle X-ray diffraction capability. The services is comprised of ; 5 single crystal diffractometers, 10 powder instruments, 2 surface stress instruments and 1 SAXS instrument. The key aim is to support research within the School as well as the University and access can also be provided to other institutions and industry. We...

SYNBIOCHEM is harnessing Synthetic Biology to develop faster, more predictable, novel routes for fine and speciality chemicals production to deliver new chemical diversity towards scale-up and industrial manufacturing, likely to impact across many sectors (e.g. healthcare, energy, green chemistry, pharmaceuticals and novel materials).

The Centre unites interdisciplinary researchers to provide fully integrated “Design/Build/Test/Learn” technology platforms which include: • Design...

Manchester Biomolecular NMR facility houses 3 NMR spectrometers, within the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. The research focus is Biomolecular NMR, in the context of structural biology, synthetic biology and biocatalysis. The four spectrometers operate at 800, 500 and 400 MHz respectively, and the two highest field instruments have cryo-cooled 4 or 5 channel probes. We also have Daedalus instrumentation for running NMR experiments at hydrostatic pressure up to 2.5kbar.